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The Creative Writing Minor offers students from any major the opportunity to explore and refine their creative expression. Students can expect to engage in creative writing workshop practice while also developing interpretive rigor through the study of diverse literatures and voices. It is designed to complement other fields of study by cultivating creative agency, strengthening communication skills, and fostering enduring engagement with language. Whether pursued as a bridge to professional goals or as an avenue for artistic exploration, the minor equips students with clarity, empathy, and expressive power.

As students of words, we learn about a vast range of human possibilities, and we valorize a vast range of human experiences. In doing so we align, compare, and contrast ourselves with countless others who have inscribed human life in language through the centuries.

The Writing Minor at Yeshiva College recognizes that proficiency in writing will prove advantageous for any major, for any career, and for the career change most educated people make from time to time. The minor will help any student express himself in the present and prepare for any future, whether in graduate or professional school, as a professional writer, or during almost any other type of work. 

Learning Goals

The goals of the Creative Writing Minor are to enable each student who successfully completes it to:

• Develop into an effective, confident creative and/or expository writer, reviser, and editor;
• Develop a substantial repertoire of strategies for invention, writing, and revision;
• Apply interpretive skills to writing so that "reading" and "writing" will reinforce one another 
• Develop one or more voices and a sense of authorship;
• Write for various audiences in various genres (e.g., fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, creative nonfiction);
• Practice and appreciate writing as art, craft, rhetoric, and as application of ideas about writing; and
• Enhance his enjoyment of writing. 

Program Information