Writing & Literature: Requirements

Degree Requirements
Every Bachelor of Arts degree candidate must complete Burlington College’s General Education requirements and must earn a minimum of 120 credits to achieve a degree. The following course requirements are specific to the Writing and Literature major.

Major Requirements
42 credits are required. All courses are 3 credits unless otherwise noted. Other coursework may be substituted with permission of academic advisor.

Intermediate Level (200) 12 credits
• The Art of Reading : Introduction to Literature
• Creative Writing
• World Literature I: A Textual Exploration of Humankind
• World Literature II: A Textual Exploration of Humankind
Intermediate Level Electives (200) 3 credits
• African-American Literature and History
• American Indian Literature
• The Beats: Pull My Daisy
• Introduction to Screenwriting
• Philosophy Through Literature
• Poetry Seminar
• Real World Writing
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Short Fiction: A Critical and Creative Approach to Stories
• Summer Writing Seminar

Upper Level (300) 6 credits
• Search and Research: Academic Writing
• Ways of Seeing: Art, Literature, and Film Criticism
Upper Level Electives (300) 12 credits
• American Indian Literature
• The Avant Garde: Paradoxes of Modernism
• Civic Scholar Seminar
• Creative Nonfiction
• Memoir and Autobiography
• Moments of Being: The Modernist Novel
• Poetry Seminar
• Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Shakespeare’s Crack’d Mirror
• Short Fiction: A Critical and Creative Approach to Stories
• Summer Writing Seminar
• Visiting Writer Workshop (1 credit)
• Writing the Feature I
• Writing the Feature II
• Other approved coursework such as Guided Independent Studies, Tutorials, etc.)

Internship 3 credits

Degree Project I & II (3 credits each) 6 credits