Write Your Future:
Explore, Create, Inspire
Why Creative Writing?
Creative Writing may be for you if you are interested in:
- pursuing your talents as a poet or prose writer
- writing and editing print and digital documents
- teaching creative writing
- learning about writing as therapy
While at FMU, you will get first-hand on-the-job experience while completing graduation requirements. You will have the opportunity to work both as a reader and potentially an editor of our student literary magazine, Snow Island Review. You will also have the opportunity to apply for a junior coordinator position at the Pee Dee Fiction and Poetry Festival. In this position, you will gain experience in event coordination and literary marketing. You will also work directly with successful writers and poets.
Course Descriptions
Creative Writing Major requires the following courses:
See the FMU catalog for more details.
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ENGL 371 - Creative Writing:Adv Poetry Wkshop
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-370. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Builds on the fundamentals of poetry writing...
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ENGL 372 - Creative Writing: Playwriting
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Introduces students to writing...
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ENGL 382 - Spec Topics in Writing:Non-Fiction
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Examines a specific literary...
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ENGL 383 - Film, Genres, & Styles
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Explores the history and...
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ENGL 384 - African-American Film History
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Explores the history of...
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ENGL 385 - Sex, Gender & Literature
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Focuses on using gender...
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ENGL 421 - Gender and Public Rhetoric
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-102(3122); Minimum grade C. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Studies non-fiction texts through...
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ENGL 426 - Rise of the British Novel
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Focuses exclusively on the development of prose...
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ENGL 427 - Adv Study British Lit Before 1785
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Focuses on major British writers, groups of...
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ENGL 433 - The Nineteenth Century Novel
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Focuses on the development of the novel...
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ENGL 434 – Advanced Study in British Literature After 1785
Prerequisites/Corequisites: ENGL 300
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Focuses on major British writers, groups of writers, a genre,...
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Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Considers how this particular genre has evolved...
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Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Familiarizes students with American poetry from colonization...
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ENGL 447 - Advanced Study in American Lit
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Focuses on major American writers, groups of...
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ENGL 448 - Advanced Study/African-American Lit
Prerequisites/Corequisites: Take ENGL-300. (Required, Previous).
Credit Hours: Min: 3; Max:Description: Focuses on major African-American writers, groups of...
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