ab in CREATIVE WRITING
AB IN CREATIVE WRITING
Faculty of Arts and Letters
AB IN CREATIVE WRITING
Faculty of Arts and Letters
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The B.A. Creative Writing Program is a four-year program that is designed to nurture and guide aspiring student writers in the four major genres of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama. It will also teach them to write in the special forms of creative writing, like writing for children and young adult, scriptwriting for film and television, speculative fiction, literary journalism, travel writing, food writing, nature writing, and even literary translation. The creative writing classes consist of both lecture sessions, in which literary models (professional examples in the different types and forms of creative writing) will be analyzed, highlighting the effectiveness of their literary techniques and rhetorical strategies, and workshop sessions, in which the creative writing drafts of the students will be critiqued by the professor and their peers. The program also has a strong literature component which will expose creative writing students to literature subjects that will help them improve their own writing craft, like Philippine Literary History, The Great Books, Anglo-American Literature, Latin American Literature, etc. The final intended learning outcome of the entire program is the production of a creative writing thesis in the form of a book-length manuscript of a collection of poems, short stories, CNF pieces, or plays.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
Journalism
Reporters
Writers
Editors
Copyeditors
Proofreaders
Academic and commercial publishing houses
Proofreaders
Managing directors
Publishers
Television
Researchers
Writers
Production assistants
Program producers
Newscasters
Business companies/ International Agencies
Editors of newsletters, company reports, and speeches
Communication officers.
Freelance writers
Writers of personal biographies, company histories, histories of institutions, municipalities and provinces
“Content writers” – blogs which get sponsors, websites, online publishers
Publicists for personalities
Doing press releases and building media campaigns
Academician in universities and the secondary schools
Facilitators of creative writing workshops in government and private agencies
In some universities, Creative Writing is also considered an effective pre-Law course.
PROGRAM CURRICULUM
Please click here to view the Program Curriculum (2021) https://www.ust.edu.ph/bachelor-of-arts-in-creative-writing/
FIRST YEAR (2 TERMS)
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| CW 3271 | Creative Writing for Beginners | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| FIL 1 | Filipino 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| GE ELEC I | Elective I | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| NSTP 1 | NSTP 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| PE 1 | PATH-PE 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| PURPCOM | Purposive Communication | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| READ_PH | Readings in Philippine History | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| SPN 1 | Spanish 1 – Basic | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| THY 1 | Christian Vision of the Human Person | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 23 | 0 | 26 |
Second Term
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| CWL 301 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| GE ELEC II | Elective II | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| FIL 2 | Filipino 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| NSTP 2 | NSTP 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| PE 2 | PATH-PE 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| SPN 2 | Spanish 2 – Intermediate | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| THY 2 | Christian Vision of Marriage and Family | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| UND_SELF | Understanding the Self | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 20 | 0 | 23 |
SECOND YEAR (2 TERMS)
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| CONTEM_W | The Contemporary World | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 3273 | Introduction to Poetry | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 3274 | Poetry Workshop | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| ETHICS | Ethics | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| LIWORIZ | Life and Works of Rizal | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| MATH_MW | Mathematics in the Modern World | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| PE 3 | PATH-PE 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| THY 3 | Christian Vision of the Church in Society | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 23 | 0 | 23 |
Second Term
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| AB 301 | Entrepreneurial Mind | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 3275 | Introduction to Fiction | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 3276 | Fiction Workshop | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| GE ELEC III | Elective III | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| GE ELEC IV | Elective IV | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| PE 4 | PATH-PE 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| SCITECHS | Science, Technology, and Society | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| THY 4 | Living the Christian Vision in the Contemporary World | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 23 | 0 | 23 |
THIRD YEAR (2 TERMS)
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| ART_APP | Art Appreciation | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32710 | Playwriting Workshop | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32711 | Shakespeare | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32712 | Latin American Literature | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32713 | Creative Writing Research (Poetics) | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 3277 | Introduction to Nonfiction | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 3278 | Nonfiction Workshop | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 3279 | Introduction to Drama | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 24 | 0 | 24 |
Second Term
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| CW 32714 | Anglo-American Literature | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32715 | Scriptwriting for Film and Television | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32716 | Writing for Children and Young Adult | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32717 | Introduction to Children’s and Young Adult Literature | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32718 | Thesis Writing 1 – Thesis Proposal | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| CWL 302 | Literary Translation | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| ELE 1 | Professional Elective 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 20 | 0 | 20 |
FOURTH YEAR (2 TERMS)
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| CW 32719 | Contemporary Philippine Literature | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32720 | Speculative Fiction | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32721 | Current Trends in World Literature | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 32722 | Practicum | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| CW 327223 | Thesis Writing 2: Thesis Colloquium | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| ELE 2 | Professional Elective 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 20 | 0 | 20 |
Second Term
| Abbreviation | Description | Lec. Hrs. | Lab. Hrs. | Units | Pre-Requisites |
| CW 327224 | Seminar in Creative Writing | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 327225 | Teaching of Creative Writing | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 327226 | Special Topics in Creative Writing | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| CW 327227 | Thesis Writing 3: Thesis Defense | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| ELE 3 | Professional Elective 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| ELE 4 | Professional Elective 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 | |
| TOTAL | 17 | 0 | 17 |
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