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Program checklist · Majors and Minors

English Major, Creative Writing Emphasis

Colgate University · Hamilton, NY

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Program
Award
Majors and Minors
Catalog edition
2026-2027 University Catalog
Checklist type
degree-program
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
190099
CourseShelf checklist
CK_190099_ca925fb4
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Major Requirements

0 items

    Survey Courses

    1 item
    1. at least two survey courses. Survey courses encompass a broad range of material, allowing students to appreciate how writers influence one another and observe (and perhaps reconsider) canonicity, that is, how some writers have come to be considered more significant than others. Survey courses are normally completed at the 200 level. Survey courses include: ENGL 200 , ENGL 201 , and ENGL 202
      Not resolved to a course

    Literature Electives From Three Historical Periods

    4 items
    1. at least one literature course at the intermediate (300) level from each of three historical periods:
      Not resolved to a course
    2. medieval/early modern (to 1700)
      Not resolved to a course
    3. the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (1701-1900)
      Not resolved to a course
    4. the twentieth and twenty-first centuries (1901 to now)
      Not resolved to a course

    Electives

    2 items
    1. two literature electives at any level
      Not resolved to a course
    2. only one may be at the 100-level
      Not resolved to a course

    Workshops

    6 items
    1. ENGL 217
      Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing
      As published: “Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing (may be taken only once)”
      1.00
    2. ENGL 374
      1.00
    3. ENGL 376
      1.0
    4. ENGL 377
      1.00
    5. ENGL 378
    6. ENGL 477
      1.00

    English Seminar

    1 item
    1. at least one seminar in literature, that is, a course at the 400-level in which students engage in advanced reading, discussion, and writing about a specific literary topic
      Not resolved to a course

    GPA Requirement

    0 items

      Honors

      0 items

        English and Creative Writing Department

        0 items
          Source. Colgate University, catalog 2026-2027 University Catalog — https://catalog.colgate.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=16&poid=2805&returnto=828. Captured page pages/0096.html.gz. Assembled from the institution's published catalog as captured; every record names its captured page and source URL. Assembled, not asserted.