Undergraduates

Although we are working on creating an undergraduate minor, currently there is no undergraduate degree in creative writing, the program does offer undergraduate- level creative writing courses and the Kidd Tutorial Program.

Undergraduate English majors who want to emphasize creative writing should complete Introduction to Poetry Writing (CRWR 230), Introduction to Fiction Writing (CRWR 240), and Introduction to Creative Writing: Literary Nonfiction (CRWR 244).

Other students should consult their major advisers about integrating creative writing courses into their programs.

Kidd Tutorial Program
A yearlong course for undergraduates in creative writing, intellectual inquiry, and craft-based research

Join like-minded peers in a learning community with the shared mission of deepening your intellectual lives and developing yourselves as literary artists over an entire year. Nowhere else on campus do undergraduate students receive the sustained and close attention to their creative writing that the Kidd Tutorial offers.

Students are challenged to confront literature with a spirit of engagement, to pose questions, and to seek connections among a wide variety of texts in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, craft, and criticism. The spirit of inquiry and exposure to diverse ideas are integral to the tutorial with the expectation that students will use what they learn as inspiration for their own work. Students leave our yearlong course with the tools of technique, critical reading, and compositional savvy to sustain their writing efforts far into the future.