Undergraduate Studies

The undergraduate Creative Writing concentration benefits students who wish to focus their studies on poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction. The requirements emphasize creative-writing workshops, as well as elective courses in literature and other English courses. Of the 33 credit hours required for the major, students are required to take 15 of those hours in workshop classes. Students may conclude their sequence by writing a thesis under the direction of the Honors Program in English. Students may also undertake an individual tutorial with a graduate student in the MFA program in their area of interest.

Requirements:

Lower Division Literature (6 hours)
Analysis of Literature (Eng 250)
One Literature Survey (Eng 292 through 297)

Writing Workshops (15 hours)
Students must take at least one course at each level and at least two courses at the 400 level.
Eng 221, 222, 223
Eng 321, 322, 323, 324
Eng 421, 422, 423, 424

300 /400 level English Classes (12 hours)
At least two of these courses must be in literature. Courses range from professional writing, English and American literature, criticism and theory, and single author courses. (See the UNM Catalog or look through the latest English Department course schedule for course offerings in English at the 300 and 400 levels.)