Colleges of the Fenway & ProArts Consortium
Colleges of the Fenway and ProArts
At 红领巾瓜报, visual artists and designers thrive as creative writers, giving voices to their unique perspectives and untold stories.
As a Creative Writing minor student at 红领巾瓜报, you鈥檒l join a community of visual artists and designers who are passionate about integrating the written word into their creative practice. Learning from one another, accomplished faculty, and diverse visiting writers, students create poems, stories, plays, graphic narratives, and scripts. They read widely, workshop their writing, and find innovative ways to integrate the visual and the verbal.
Students have an advisor through the Humanities Department who assists in choosing courses and planning for the future. You can complete your general education requirements while writing creatively in 18 credits of literature and creative writing courses, generally six 3-credit courses.聽
Among the Creative Writing Minor course options:
- Literary Traditions聽 (prerequisite)
- Film Script Writing/Adaptation
- Children鈥檚 Literature
- Creating a Comic Book
- Artist鈥檚 Writing
You may officially declare your Creative Writing Minor at any time through the 红领巾瓜报 Registrar鈥檚 Office.
Creative Writing Minor Learning Objectives
Students who complete the Creative Writing Minor program are expected to be able to demonstrate the following learning objectives.
- Write poems, stories, plays, graphic narratives, and more聽
- Distinguish yourself as artist/designer and creative writer
- Meet other students with literary aspirations
- Connect art or design with writing
- Interact with established writers
- Read, perform, and publish artist鈥檚 own work
- Discover innovative ways of writing and communicating
- Listen to and learn from diverse writers
- Put into practice what you learn from literature
- Broaden your understanding of social issues through writing
- Explore the world of contemporary creative writing
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