Creative Writing - Hamilton College Clinton

Creative Writing from Hamilton College Clinton is a Campus Bachelor Writing degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The creative writing program is part of the English Department, which gives students full access to the literary expertise of established scholars and critics. In addition, each of Hamilton's full-time faculty members in creative writing holds a Ph.D. in English or creative writing , which means that our faculty members are trained, committed teachers as well as working artists. Majors in creative writing take a series of workshops at the introductory and intermediate level, in both poetry and fiction writing . They then compose and revise a collection of poetry, short fiction or a novella in the senior seminar. Courses are also offered in the study and practice of creative nonfiction. In addition, like their English-major peers, creative writing majors study a foreign language and take a range of courses in the history and analysis of British, American and other literary traditions in English. RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES Many English majors spend a semester or a year studying abroad, typically in England, Ireland or Australia. Hamilton-affiliated programs offer a chance to explore first-hand the historical roots and cultural settings of many of our most important authors and works. While study abroad is an integral part of the liberal arts curriculum, it has special resonance for students of English and creative writing as they learn to analyze not only traditional texts but the larger cultural and creative interactions that produce them. THE SENIOR PROGRAM The progression of workshops in the creative writing program culminates in the senior seminar, where students compose and revise a major collection of poetry or short fiction or a novella. Senior creative writing students seeking honors present their work in a public reading. For all students, the aim of the senior program is to achieve the maturity of vision and technical control developed in earlier workshops. More ... RESOURCES While nearly every campus has a writing center, Hamilton's Nesbitt-Johnston Writing Center is regarded as one of the nation's best ? a model for other colleges and universities. Here students learn the fine points of researching, developing and organizing essays. All students have access to ? and most make use of ? the center's student tutors, who are drawn from the best writers in every discipline across campus. Hamilton's Burke Library has among its substantial literary holdings an important collection related to the American modernist poet and Hamilton alumnus Ezra Pound. It also offers a wide selection of Caribbean literature and a remarkable handwritten, hand-decorated manuscript from 1465 that students in medieval courses may examine and handle. View more details on Hamilton College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Writing courses.