Creative Writing Certificate of Achievement

• ENGL 49B Creative Writing: Fiction Units: 3
• ENGL 49C Creative Writing: Poetry Units: 3
• ENGL 49D Creative Writing: Play and Screen Writing Units: 3
• ENGL 49A Introduction to Creative Writing Units: 3
• DMEDIA 2 Writing for Digital Media Units: 3
• DRAMA 46 Scriptwriting Units: 3
• ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing Units: 3
• ENGL C1000E Academic Reading and Writing Units: 4
• ENGL C1002 Introduction to Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 35 Chicano Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 37 Women in Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 38 Mythology Units: 3
• ENGL 42A Survey of American Literature I Units: 3
• ENGL 42B Survey of American Literature II Units: 3
• ENGL 45 Introduction to Shakespeare Units: 3
• ENGL 46A Survey of British Literature I Units: 3
• ENGL 46B Survey of British Literature II Units: 3
• ENGL 52 From Story to Screen Units: 3
• ENGL 57 Children’s Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 61 Hip Hop Poetics Units: 3
• ENGL 62B Contemporary African American Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 62C Asian American Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 62D Indigenous American Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 62E Introduction to Latino/a Literature Units: 3
• ENGL 88 Introduction to Publishing and Editing Units: 3

The Creative Writing Certificate of Achievement prepares students for entry-level jobs in fields such as tutoring, editing and publishing, and journalism, while providing the tools and practice to build a writing portfolio to apply for other in-demand careers in writing. Through a purposeful sequence of courses, students will explore their creative potential through practice in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and dramatic writing. In addition, students will gain extensive practice in reading literature from diverse voices that will help them learn how to express their own individual voices and share stories from those who they are in community with. The certificate prepares students to progress towards an English transfer degree, and it better positions English transfer degree holders to transfer to English or Creative Writing programs at four-year institutions. Demonstrate the ability to write original poetry. Demonstrate the ability to write an original piece of fiction. Demonstrate the ability to write an original piece of autobiographical writing. Demonstrate the ability to edit one own’s work as well as the creative writing of other people. Demonstrate the ability to refine one’s work for publication. Show knowledge of a diverse range of contemporary literature.