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Courses That Satisfy the Creative Writing Requirements

Five upper-division courses are required, consisting of three courses in creative writing and two courses in literature. These courses may be taken in any of the departments that offer them. See Requirements.

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Courses in both creative writing and literature are sometimes listed in the General Catalog under very general headings ("Topics in ________" or "Special Topics"). Students may be allowed to include courses that are not on the following list with approval of the Creative Writing Minor Faculty Adviser. It is the responsibility of the student to provide the Faculty Adviser with documentary evidence to support the claim of course eligibility.

To determine if a course from the list below is being offered during a specific semester, visit the Online Schedule of Classes.

Courses In Literature

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African American Studies
142A. Third World Cinema
142B. The Cross-Cultural Images of American Minorities in Film
142D. Race and American Film
C143A. Performance: An African American Perspective
C143B. Research-to-Performance Laboratory
C143C. Black Theatre Workshop
150B. African American Literature 1920 to Present
C151A. African American Plays from 1858 to 1959
151B. Contemporary African American Drama
C151B. Contemporary African American Drama
C152C. African American Dramatic Literature: Forms and Styles
C153A. Images of African American Women in Literature: Slavery to the 20th-Century
C153B. Contemporary Images of African American Women in Literature
154. Negritude: French African Literature
155. Literature of the Caribbean: Significant Themes
160. African Literatures
161. African Theater
162. Carribean Literature by Women Authors: Marasa
163. African Literature by Women

American Studies
C152. Native American Literature

Anthropology
160. Forms of Folklore
C160. Forms of Folklore
161. Narrative Folklore
162. Topics in Folklore
163AC. American Folklore

Arabic
104B. Classical Arabic Prose
111A. Survey of Arabic Literature (in Arabic)

Asian American Studies
171. Asian Americans in Film and Video
172. Asian American Literature
175. Contemporary Narratives on the Philippines and the United States
176. Genre in Asian American Literature
178. Gender and Sexuality in Asian American Literature and Culture
179. Transnational Narratives by Asian Americans
180. Chinese - Language Literature and Film on the Immigrant Experience
181. Chinese American Literature
183. Korean American Literature
187. Literature of the South Asian Diaspora

Buddhism
124. Buddhism and Film

Catalan
102. Readings in Catalan

Celtic Studies
105B. Readings in Old and Middle Irish
119A-B. Welsh and Arthurian Literature of the Middle Ages
125. Irish Literature in Translation
138. Irish Literature
139. Irish Literature
146A-B. Medieval Welsh Language and Literature
C168. Celtic Mythology and the Oral Tradition

Chicano Studies
135. Chicano/Latin Film
141. Chicana Feminist Writers and Discourse
142. Major Chicano Writers
143. Chicano and Latin American Literature
148. Chicano/Latin Theatre Workshop