Program checklist · Creative Writing Specialization

Creative Writing Specialization

State University of New York at New Paltz · New Paltz, NY

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Program

Award: Creative Writing Specialization
CIP: 16.0104
Credits (computed from items): 12
Catalog edition: 2025-2026
Checklist type: degree-program
SOC: 25-1123

Identifiers

IPEDS UNITID: 196176
CourseShelf checklist: CK_196176_484f4b48
CollegeTransfer.Net: Institution Transfer Profile
Source: CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

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

Creative Writing Specialization

33 items

Complete ONE of the following pre-1800 courses:
Not resolved to a course
3
ENG 501
Introduction to Old English
3
ENG 504
English Literature of the Sixteenth Century
3
ENG 505
Shakespeare
3
ENG 506
English Drama through the Jacobean Period
3
ENG 507
English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
3
ENG 508
Milton
3
ENG 560
Forms of Autobiography
As published: “Forms of Autobiography 1”
3
ENG 572
Studies in Middle English Literature
3
ENG 573
Studies in Sixteenth-Century English Literature
3
ENG 575
Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
3
ENG 576
Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
3
ENG 577
Studies in English Romanticism
3
ENG 588
Studies in Comparative Literature
As published: “Studies in Comparative Literature 1”
3
ENG 593
English Selected Topic
As published: “English Selected Topic 1”
12
Complete THREE of the following Post-1800 courses
Not resolved to a course
9
ENG 515
Modern Theories of Writing Annual/Fall
3
ENG 522
Modernity and Modernism in Britain
3
ENG 524
Virginia Woolf
3
ENG 525
Postmodern Literature
3
ENG 526
Twenty-First Century Literature
3
ENG 536
American Fiction in the Twentieth Century to 1945 Annual/Fall
3
ENG 537
American Poetry in the Twentieth Century to 1945
3
ENG 578
Studies in Victorian Literature
3
ENG 579
Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
3
ENG 581
Studies in Twentieth-Century American Fiction to 1945
3
ENG 583
Studies in Twentieth-Century British Literature
3
ENG 586
Studies in Contemporary Literature
3
ENG 588
Studies in Comparative Literature
As published: “Studies in Comparative Literature 2”
3
ENG 589
From Gutenberg to Google Books: Studies in Books, Readers, and Culture
3
ENG 593
English Selected Topic
As published: “English Selected Topic 2”
12
ENG 594
Fieldwork in English
1-12
ENG 595
Indep Study English
1-12

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