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Are you a storyteller, a poet, a songwriter, a screenwriter, a comedian, a memoirist, or someone who wants to experiment with language? Our minor is a home for all creative writers at Pratt.
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Type
Undergraduate
Courses
Academic Requirements
School and Department
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
Writing

The Creative Writing Minor is designed for Pratt students who seek to deepen their commitment to the composition of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, and/or to hone the development of language-based and storytelling practices in their major fields. Students in the minor choose freely among our elective and advanced studio courses. With the guidance of our minor coordinator, students can tailor their minor courses to the individual goals they have for their writing practice.

Curious about the kind of writing you can do in our minor? Check out our current electives to get a feel for the range of options every semester.

To complete the minor, students take five courses of their choosing from the following list of electives and studios, in order to earn at least 15 credits:

  • WR 320 Special Topics (a changing set of offerings each semester)
  • WR 325 A and B: Journalism Workshop: Prattler I and II
  • WR 360 The Art of Teaching Writing
  • WR 493 Ecopoetics
  • WR 201 Writer’s Studio III
  • WR 202 Writer’s Studio IV
  • WR 301 Writers Studio V
  • WR 300 Writer’s Forum

*Please note that WR 201, 202, 301, and 360 are four credit courses; Writer’s Forum is 1 credit.

Minor Coordinator
Rachel Levitsky
rlevitsk@pratt.edu

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Academic Requirements

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Writing