Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing

INTO Group - The University of Arizona

USA,Arizona

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48 Months

Duration

CAD 36,600/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 85

Application Fee

Aug 2025

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USA, Arizona

Type: University

Location Type: Urban

Founded: 1885

Total Students: 46,900 +

Int. Students: 4,000 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

Tucson, AZ 85721, United States

Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing

Program Overview

Develop your writing craft and from fiction and nonfiction to poetry and technical writing and under the guidance of award-winning, published authors in small workshop settings. The Creative Writing program offers students the opportunity to develop their skills for creative written expression. Workshops led by an internationally renowned faculty aim to help students write well-crafted and compelling works of prose and poetry. Additionally, coursework in literature and literary analysis teaches critical thinking and research efficiencies, while classes in publishing share real-world insights into the writing profession. This Bachelor of Arts program of study not only gives students widely applicable tools that can be used across myriad industries, but it also offers a Professional and Technical Writing certificate and grants access to some of today's most important and influential writers.

Learning Outcomes

  • Ability to write well-crafted and compelling works of literary merit in prose or poetry.
  • Understanding of craft terms and concepts and the ability to articulate how these aspects of craft contribute to text's literary, aesthetic, or emotional effects.
  • Ability to isolate and manipulate craft elements in writing and revising a story, essay, and/or poem.
  • Knowledge of significant currents in contemporary prose or poetry and their antecedents.
  • Ability to identify and analyze the ways in which individual writers operate within, on the edges of, or in response to their literary contexts, predecessors, genres, and historical traditions.
  • Understanding of key goals and outcomes expected of the English major, in particular, knowledge of foundational texts of British and American literature.