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    Apr 28, 2024  
2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Bulletin

Creative Writing Major (BFA)


Hamline’s Creative Writing major provides students a rigorous apprenticeship in the craft and process of creative writing. Across a rich and diverse curriculum, students acquire the tools to effectively execute their craft across multiple genres — fiction, nonfiction, poetry and digital storytelling — in addition to exploring hybrid and multi-genre work.

Two Workshops


Students take WRIT 3540 twice.

One Pre-Professional Course


Concentration Area


Choose one of the following options.

Texts, Media, and Culture (Literature):


  • Two relevant ENG course at the 3000-level

Professional Communication:


Flex Concentration:


Students may propose and, with approval from their advisor, create a concentration of two courses to enhance their writing and career goals. Popular combinations with our students include creative ethnography (anthropology), arts activism (social justice and social change), and science and/or environmental writing (environmental studies).

One Elective


Students may choose an additional 3000-level creative writing course or a third course to fit into their chosen concentration.

Students whose primary creative writing genre is Digital Storytelling may choose an additional D+SA course from the list below (please note that some of these courses have prerequisites):