To be admitted to S&T’s undergraduate certificate program in Creative Writing, a student must meet Missouri S&T regular undergraduate admission requirements. Students must maintain a GPA of 2.75 or higher.
The certificate credits taken by the students will count towards their bachelor’s degree. In addition, this certificate provides a strong foundation for students interested in pursuing a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing.
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Earn an Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Writing
This certificate is designed to help students of all majors develop both their reading and their creative writing skills. Students will discuss the creative process, study examples of well-crafted poems, stories, and narrative essays, and develop their own ideas and techniques. Literary journals and the publication process will be discussed.
The Creative Writing certificate features a community approach where students receive feedback on their work from both peers and instructors with a focus on revision. At the completion of the certificate, a student will have their own portfolio of original, revised, creative work.
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The primary purpose of this certificate is for students to be able to respectfully and insightfully respond to their peers' work, use craft and style choices to find one's original voice, be able to analyze the use of craft and style choices and how they affect a piece of writing, understand the purpose of and utilize creative writing techniques, engage in deep revision, analyze the writing techniques of published authors, engage productively with their peers in the classroom writing community, and produce polished poems, stories, and/or narrative essays.