Program: English and Creative Writing, B.A. - Sweet Briar College

2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

Apr 06, 2025

(36 credit hours)

Required:

The English and creative writing program uses a studio model in which students develop their skills as readers and writers through project-based learning. Students engage in directed readings and sustained individual creative projects across genres. Students engage with texts in the way that working writers do, dissolving the boundary between critical engagement and creative response.

What Can You Do With a Degree in English & Creative Writing?

~ Journalism

~ Publishing

~ Editing

~ Library science

~ Teaching

~ Law

ENCW 101 - Introduction to The Literary Studio CR: 3

Senior Exercise:

ENCW 452 - Senior Portfolio Seminar CR: 3

Choose 200-level courses:

Choose three 200-level ENCW courses (9 credits).

Note: PHIL 209 - Philosophy and Literature OR THTR 230 - Play and Screen Writing may be used for one of these requirements.

Choose 300-level courses:

Choose three 300-level ENCW courses (9 credits).

Choose 4 additional elective courses:

Choose four three-credit courses selected from the following: ARAS 102, HIST 104 or any course from DANC, DART, MUSC, THTR, or VART (12 credits). (Note: Cannot choose THTR 230 if chosen above.)

Choose four three-credit courses related to the student’s writing-related interests (history, science, philosophy, etc.). These courses require advisor approval and the completion of a related creative project.