If you'd love to immerse yourself in contemporary literature and creative writing and see where it takes you - start here.
Hone your writing under the guidance of practicing writers. Our instructors specialize in poetry and poetics (including digital poetics), the novel, micro-fiction, creative non-fiction, writing for children, ficto-criticism, and radio and short film scripts.
In first year you'll study multiple genres, branching out in second year to explore poetry, fiction, non-fiction, playwriting and writing for children.
You'll finish with an Associate Degree plus first- and second-year English and creative writing transfer credits.
Learning Outcomes
- Demonstrate a breadth and depth of knowledge of appropriate to a student entering upper-division courses.
- Demonstrate research skills, critical thinking, and creative implementation of sound solutions to problems.
- Communicate ideas through oral and written formats.
- Work both independently and cooperatively.
- Analyze and synthesize course material to produce original work.
- Use technology creatively and efficiently.
- Demonstrate quantitative and qualitative reasoning and research methods.
- Draw upon knowledge, judgment, and imagination in work and life.
- Produce a portfolio of original work.