Университет Восточного Мичигана, BA, Creative Writing

Submit official high school/secondary transcript with English translation. Students who would prefer to take the ACT or SAT may submit these exams in lieu of an English proficiency test. Full admission minimum test scores can be found below: SAT Evidence-based Reading and Writing Subscore (EBRW): 480 ACT English Subscore: 19 TOEFL: 61 iBT IELTS: 6.0 MELAB: 72 PTE: 44

The creative writing major engages students in a broad field of learning that addresses state of the art contemporary writing practice through creative, critical, practical, and research-based curriculum. In foregrounding intermedia and interdisciplinary approaches to creative writing as well as traditional genres, the program prepares undergraduate students for a variety of careers in writing. Opportunities Students who pursue this major have the opportunity to further develop and explore their creative writing skills through the Undergraduate Research Symposium, course work that provides opportunities for service learning and community-based projects, and through public readings and presentations. Authorship, education, nonprofit arts, editorial and publishing work, marketing, advertising, freelance writing, writing for digital media and interdisciplinary fields are among the career opportunities open to people with creative writing degrees. Many students in our program have also found a degree in creative writing to be excellent preparation for advanced studies in creative writing, literature, library science, and other fields in the arts and humanities.