Creative Writing Minor

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right
ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little."
-Tom Stoppard

The Creative Writing Minor at John Carroll allows students to gain intensive workshop experience in writing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The workshops are small-not more than fifteen students-and the professors are actively publishing, dynamic writers and instructors. They have published books, their work appears regularly in the best literary journals, and they participate in national writing conferences and workshops. So if you take a writing workshop at John Carroll you are immediately connected with the current trends and styles and movements in American writing. And because John Carroll has one of the most respected Visiting Writers programs in the state, you'll have a chance to meet and work with nationally known visitors to our campus, people like Billy Collins, Rita Dove, and Robert Pinsky, each of whom has visited our workshops in the past three years (take a look at the "Events" page on our Creative Writing website. Finally, creative writing workshops at John Carroll are fun. You get to be the artist, the critic, and the professor, all in one exciting, challenging, and very rewarding course.

The Creative Writing Minor requires six courses: two of which must be 300 level workshops (one each from 1 and 2 below), one four hundred level workshop (from 3 below), and two literature courses, one in Twentieth Century literature (as listed in 5 below), and one genre course (as listed in 6 below) or another workshop. The sixth course is an additional elective workshop from either the 300 or 400 level.

1.One of the following 300 level courses:

• En 300 Advanced Writing
• En 303 Introductory Creative Writing Workshop
• En 304 Introductory Creative Non-Fiction workshop

2. One of the following 300 level courses:

• EN 301 Introductory Poetry Writing Workshop
• EN 302 Introductory Fiction Writing Workshop
• EN 303 Introductory Creative Writing Workshop

3.One of the following 400 level courses:

• En 401 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop
• En 402 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop
• En 403 Special topics in Creative Writing Workshop
• En 404 Advanced Creative Non-Fiction Workshop

4. One course in Twentieth Century literature

• En 360, 361, 372, 382, 383, 384, 460, 461, 471, 472, 473, 374, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484

5. One Genre Course ( En 201, 202, 203, 204, 382, 383, 384) or another writing workshop

6. One elective writing workshop at the 300 or 400 level

Note:

-Our creative writing minor can be combined with an English major, and two courses taken for the creative writing minor can also fulfill 6 credits toward the 39 credit hour English major requirement.

-The following prerequisites for 400 level workshops:

• En 400 Advanced Writing Workshop: En 300 or En 303
• En 401 Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop: En 303 or 301
• En 402 Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop: En 303 or 302
• En 403 Special topics in Writing Workshop: En 303 or 302 En 404 Advanced Creative Non-Fiction Workshop: En 303 or 304