Important: Due to the high number of applications for the creative writing workshops, the Department cannot guarantee acceptance into the three workshops required for this program. Students may not declare the Creative Writing Concentration until they have completed the third workshop in their chosen genre.

Enrollment in any creative writing workshop is by application only. Before the quarter begins, professors provide handouts (available in 149 Humanities and online) outlining the procedures and deadlines for submitting writing samples. Generally, the submission deadline is two to three weeks before the beginning of the quarter. You may apply to more than one workshop, but you must inform each instructor that you are doing so.

Professors post lists of those accepted into the workshops in the English Main Office (149 Humanities).  Lists are usually posted either the first day of classes or the first day of the scheduled workshop. Students accepted to a workshop will be given a PTE number on the first day of class to enroll.

For additional information, please contact Stephen Yenser, Director of Creative Writing.

Prepatory Coursework

The Major: 10 Upper Division Courses

• All courses used to fulfill requirements for the major must be 4 or 5 units.
• All courses used to fulfill requirements for the major must be taken for a letter grade.
• Seminars may not be applied toward Historical or Breadth requirements.

1. 4 Historical Requirements (one course in each period)
   
   Courses offered in Spring 2012:
   Literatures in English before 1500
   Literatures in English 1500-1700
   Literatures in English 1700-1850
   Literatures in English 1850-Present


2. 2 Breadth Requirements (one course is required in at least two of the three areas below)
   
   Courses offered in Spring 2012:
   Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
   Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies
   Genre Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Critical Theory


3. 3 Creative Writing Courses in the Same Genre
   
   Courses offered in Spring 2012:
   Creative Writing Courses
   
   
   1. Enrollment in any creative writing course is by application only.
   2. No student may enroll in more than one creative writing workshop per quarter.
   3. No more than two workshops may be completed with the same instructor.


4. 1 Senior English Seminar
   
   Courses offered in Spring 2012:
   Senior English Seminars