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.

PROGRAM CURRICULUM