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Jul 20, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Bulletin
English, Creative Writing Track, B.A.
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The B.A. in English, Creative Writing track, offers student-writers the opportunity to hone their craft in a serious and supportive environment. Our curriculum is based on a scaffolded model that encourages exploration across multiple genres and styles.
Foundations: 200-level courses in the Creative Writing track provide students with an introduction to the discipline through the study of various genres of creative writing including poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction. Creative writing courses at this level help students understand what it means to read as a writer and write with an awareness of the craft elements within the different genres.
Studio: 300-level Creative Writing courses are advanced writing workshops in which students will engage in more in-depth study in the various genres. Students will read published works in the class genre, but the majority of the reading material is produced by the students. Students will write pieces in the course’s genre and submit them to their peers for written and verbal critique that the writer will use to revise the work.
Writing in the World: 400-level Creative Writing courses prepare students for the more public aspects of the writing life, including publication and readings. These courses form a bridge between writing for the classroom and writing within a larger literary community, and there is a focus on learning ways to sustain a literary life beyond Geneseo.
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Program Learning Outcomes
1. Formal Understanding: Students will be able to describe and analyze the formal and aesthetic elements of literary works, including implication and connotation, figuration, narrative structure, and genre. 2. Historical Understanding: Students will be able to analyze literary works in relation to the social, political, and cultural contexts of their production and to identify important developments in literary history. 3. Critique: Students will be able to interpret literary works in conversation with a range of critical and theoretical frameworks and to identify and articulate the ways difference, power, and inequality shape the production and reception of literature. 4. Argumentation: Students will be able to conceive, develop, and communicate original critical arguments in clear and effective prose; in oral presentation and discussion; and in new and digital media. 5. Craft: Students in our Creative Writing track will be able to compose original works across a variety of genres by developing a sustainable writing process that involves thoughtfully and empathetically providing and receiving feedback as part of a writing community. General Education Requirements (30-40 Credits)
Prerequisite coursework may be required to satisfy certain General Education courses and will count as elective credit. Total Credits Required to Complete Major: 44
Basic Requirements: (28 Credits)
Minimum Competence Requirement
A grade of C- or better is required for each of the following courses: all courses submitted in fulfillment of the 44 hour requirement for the English major. Department Writing Requirement
For the English Major, at least 16 Credits must be at the 300-level or above. All courses in English emphasize the skills of effective writing. In addition, all 400-level Literature courses teach students how to join the conversation. English majors are strongly urged to study a foreign language and literature. Sample Course Map
For students who matriculated prior to Fall 2022: please select the bulletin year in which you entered the college (matriculated) at the top right of this page. Curriculum Map - First Year
- Fall - 15 Credit Hours
- Spring - 15 Credit Hours
- Second Year
- Fall - 15 Credit Hours
- ENGL Literature elective - Credit(s): 4
- World Language 102 - Credit(s): 4
- Global Society: WCV - Credit(s): 4
- Elective - Credit(s): 3
- Spring - 14 Credit Hours
- ENGL 3xx-4xx Writing Workshop - Credit(s): 4
- ENGL Literature Elective - Credit(s): 4
- Global Society: CGC - Credit(s): 3
- Global Society: SST - Credit(s): 3
- Third Year
- Fall - 16 Credit Hours
- ENGL 3xx-4xx Writing Workshop - Credit(s): 4
- ENGL 3xx-4xx Writing Workshop - Credit(s): 4
- Electives - Credit(s): 8
- Spring - 15 Credit Hours
- ENGL 3xx-4xx Writing Workshop - Credit(s): 4
- Electives - Credit(s): 11
- Fourth Year
- Fall - 15 Credit Hours
- ENGL 4xx Literature Elective - Credit(s): 4
- Integrated & Applied Learning - Credit(s): 4
- Electives - Credit(s): 7
- Spring - 15 Credit Hours
Total Credit Hours: 120
Note: Variation in the order of courses is possible, depending upon prerequisites. Consult course information in the bulletin or your academic advisor to customize your eight semester plan. KEY - Participation in a Global Society (PGS)
Attributes:
Sub Areas | Abbreviation | Definition | | DPP | Diversity, Pluralism, Power | | WCV | World Cultures & Values | | CGC | Contemporary Global Challenges | | CAI | Creativity & Innovation | | SST | Sustainability | Learning Areas | Abbreviation | Definition | | ARTS | Arts | | HUMA | Humanities | | SOSC | Social Science | |
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