Undergraduate Program
The Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing, established in 1978, provides a wide variety of opportunities for students to read, write and study the genres of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. In addition to a range of creative writing workshop courses open to undergraduates (and, under certain circumstances, graduate students and special students), the program offers an English Major with an Emphasis in Creative Writing, a lively series of readings, visits by distinguished authors, opportunities to work on The Madison Review, and a number of contests and prize competitions.
Undergraduate creative writing workshops are composed of 12 to 19 students, In these workshops some time is spent on theory and technique, some time is spent reading the work of established writers, and some short writing exercises may be assigned--but the major focus is on student writing, both in the classroom and in individual conferences.
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