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Creative Writing (Multidiscipline)

Salford School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology

September 2024

In a nutshell

Podcaster. Journalist. Novelist. Poet. Screenwriter. Whatever kind of writer you want to be, on this course you’ll gain the tools and training you need to take the first step in your professional writing career.

As you progress through your studies, you’ll have the chance to explore writing in a unique range of  contexts, from screenwriting to the gaming industry to experimental visual texts and comic books, as well as the core mediums of poetry and the novel. It’s all geared towards your future writing career.

As an undergraduate creative writing student studying at Salford, you’ll also have access to the creative writing opportunities Manchester has to offer. You’ll be joining a vibrant community of practising creatives with the chance to flourish in our state-of-the-art campuses in MediaCity and Peel Park – both of which designed to nurture talent across the city.

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  • Study on a course which is ranked in the top 10 for Creative Writing in the Guardian University Guide 2023
  • Develop a wide range of skillsets designed to open up a world of creative writing careers
  • Explore diverse creative writing forms, including experimental writing, playwriting, screenwriting, journalism, poetry, and prose fiction
  • Graduate with a creative writing portfolio that evidences the skills you've learnt to potential employers or for further study.

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This is for you if...

You want to develop your sense of creativity and learn how to analyse and refine your own work

You have a passion for creative writing and are keen to explore a range of writing styles to improve your knowledge of the industry

You want to launch a professional career in writing and develop a strong portfolio of varied work

All about the course

What exactly does studying creative writing at university involve? Any good writing course will allow you to develop your skills in the creative pillars of plot, character, and narrative. But at the University of Salford, it doesn't end there. Our unique multidiscipline degree is designed to help you skill up for the creative industries and support your writing vocation with work that pays.

The first year of your creative writing course is designed to inspire and nurture your writing talent, while introducing you to key concepts in multimedia production and multimedia journalism. Each module will give you the opportunity to deepen your knowledge of creative writing – whether that be rediscovering your passion for reading, learning how to respond to poetry, or developing yourself as a networked journalist.

Moving into the second and third year of your degree, you will shape your studies to focus on the areas of creative writing that interest you most. From comedy writing and performance to screenwriting, radio podcasting, and theatre, this is your chance to develop a strong portfolio in your chosen area.

Want to find out more? Read our course breakdown below to learn what you’ll be exploring in each module.

Essential Reporting

This module will enable you to identify the distinctive qualities of news journalism. You will learn how to source and produce stories, providing you with fundamental editorial and technical skills such as news judgment, interviewing, accuracy, verification, writing and structuring news stories, and working to deadlines.

Multimedia Reporting

You will develop as a networked journalist by developing your own blog and exploring the multitude of digital platforms available to source and output journalistic content. You will also learn techniques of immersive storytelling.

Production Skills

The module combines both technical and creative aspects of media production as you develop a broad awareness of the range of skills required for a video drama production, including camera, lighting, editing, and sound.

Popular Fictions

You will be introduced to key concepts fundamental to the study of popular fiction, including those critical attitudes which mediate attitudes towards it. The module develops knowledge of the publishing industry and literary genres and provides a focus on crime literature spanning from Conan Doyle’s  Adventures of Sherlock Holmes  to  The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency .

The Writer's Practice

Start your writing life by exploring the creative process in a range of mediums: poetry, prose fiction, playwriting and memoir. On this year long (40 credit) module, you will be challenged to define your territory as a writer and inspired by new creative processes. In your first year at Salford, you experiment with all your talents and discover your own writing practice. 

Radio Podcasting and Features

Podcast and Radio Feature Production develops and critically reflects upon the creative, technical, and production skills required to record features and short documentaries. The module builds on the student‘s existing recording and editing skills in aiming to deliver broadcast standard audio and enhances the student’s knowledge of subject and contributor research, production planning, scripting, and interviewing techniques in order to construct longer form speech based features.

Feature Writing

You will learn how to write different types of features for newspapers and magazines in various markets. By the end of this module, you will have gained practical skills in the art of feature writing as well as enhanced your ability to formulate and pitch story ideas to commissioning editors.

Theatre Industry: Critical Writing and Contemporary Debates

This module introduces you to various forms of professional writing and current debates in theatre and the arts industry today. You will review shows, write articles or blogs on current trends in theatre, and discuss the issues that interest you most in a series of panel discussions.

Television Genres

The module explores the idea of genre as a key critical concept within television studies and enables students to identify the codes and conventions of key television genres such as news, sitcom, reality TV, Soap Operas, heritage TV, and talk shows whilst gaining an understanding of genre in relation to television production and audiences.

Comedy Writing and Performance

The module explores the writing and devising of comedy. You will watch, listen to, and discuss examples of a range of online, radio, and TV comedy before working in small groups to create an original comedy sketch idea and to develop your own script and characters within it. You will be encouraged to develop range and flexibility in your vocal, facial, and physical skills in order to produce a range of comic personas.

The module also examines aspects of storytelling – theme, narrative structure, character development, comic types, the relationship of character to plot, use of subplots – in relation to the writing of comedy drama and situation comedy. In the second half of the module you will create your solo performance: a piece of Stand Up of comic monologue. 

Digital Narrative Technologies

You will learn the theory of storytelling and narrative and apply this knowledge through creative practice to a digital artifact. This process of understanding, applying, and bridging traditional narrative from myth and legend, script and screen, to a contemporary immersive manifestation is designed to give you a broader understanding of narrative from a cultural perspective. The themes covered in the module will typically include: The Power, Importance and Origin of Story, Story Structures, The Hero’s Journey, The Power of Myth, Narration and Focalisation, The Art of Characterisation, Environmental Storytelling, Writing a Treatment, Storyboarding Techniques, Narrative and Emergent technologies, Immersion & Interactivity, and Spatial Narratives.

Creative Non-Fiction

This module explores different forms and sub-genres of creative non-fiction, a genre which Lee Gutkind describes as ‘the most important and popular genre in the literary world today.’ You will cover a wide range of creative non-fiction forms, including memoir, biography, literary journalism, autobiographical poetry, travel writing, music writing, and nature writing. Practical techniques including voice, structure, dialogue, and imagery will be taught via guided writing exercises, reading, feedback, and discussion.

Researching and Planning a Novel

This module will equip you with an overview of the state of contemporary fiction. You will meet a broad range of contemporary practice, from literary fiction to experimental fiction and genre fiction, including ‘chick lit’, historical fiction, crime/thrillers, science fiction, and supernatural/fantasy fiction. You will continue to develop your ‘writer’s tool-kit’, adding techniques such as point of view, narrative drive, setting, character, and dialogue. You will also receive tuition in how the publishing industry works, and the skills that a professional writer needs to acquire.

Writing Poetry in the 21st Century

This module revisits some traditional forms. The first part of the module involves creative explorations of the Japanese ‘tanka’ (a relative of the haiku), the sonnet, and the sestina, inviting you to invent your own original poetic form. In the second part of the module, you will encounter a range of innovative approaches to poetry: using sound, collage, found text, and visual elements in your writing. The format will be largely workshop-based with writing exercises, sharing work with your tutor.

Introduction to Children’s Literature

You will look at the development of literature for children since 1744 and examine how child development determines the content within texts written for children. You will scrutinise the texts from many angles and you may even produce texts for children.

Playwriting

Playwriting offers you the chance to experiment with a variety of theatre writing styles and forms. We will cover the craft of playwriting, studying character, dialogue, narrative, form, and stagecraft. We will also look at the business of playwriting, exploring the many professional opportunities and routes open to playwrights.

Literature, Adaptation and the Screen

On this module, you will study a range of literary texts and their screen counterparts, including  Sherlock ,  Psycho , and  Gone Girl . By encouraging you to consider and explore the relationships between literature and screen adaptations, the module will explore the distinctiveness of both cultural forms while investigating the problems of generating visual and dialogic substitutes for psychological and narrative complexity. You will learn about theories of adaptation and the integral role of technical arts such as scenography, music, and sound production; further, you will also learn about techniques associated with writing film and TV synopses, treatments, and step outlines.

Introduction to Screenwriting

On this module, you will develop your own original idea for a screenplay across the semester, moving from a one-line pitch to a treatment and scene-by-scene breakdown to, ultimately, a script. The script can be for any platform or audience, with no limitations to cast size or location. The module examines the fundamental aspects of storytelling for screen: character, story, structure, and dialogue. You will learn how to format your documents to a professional standard.

Work Placement Module

On the work placement module, you will have the opportunity to fulfil a module of study by finding and completing an internship or work placement related to your degree. While on your placement, you will be assigned an academic tutor from the English discipline. The tutor will meet with you to discuss the progress of your placement, help you think about what you are learning, and establish goals.

Final Portfolio

This is a double creative writing module that runs throughout your final year. Here you can undertake a self-directed project in the genre(s) of your choosing, while giving and receiving feedback in a supportive workshop environment. By the end of the module you should have 6,000 words (or equivalent) of highly polished creative work.

You will choose five of the following optional modules:

Sequential Art (Comics and Graphic Novels)

You will study important examples of international comic strips, series, and ‘graphic novels’. At a time of proliferating texts inspired by material introduced in comics, a section of the module will look at film and TV adaptations, evaluating the importance of comic-derived material to the modern media landscape. The unique ways in which comics can be said to create meanings will be highlighted, and you will experience creating a narrative with expert guidance.

Themes studied may include the following: Comics and Childhood; The Graphic Novel Era: Comics ‘come of age’; Alan Moore; Comics, Ideology and Form: Case Study of 1970s British Comics; Fandom; Comics and Other Media.

Teaching Writing

You will study how to teach Creative Writing in classroom and therapeutic contexts. You will gain practical teaching skills, learn how to put together lesson plans, and facilitate work by Creative Writing students. You will learn how to supplement your writing career with teaching opportunities.

Journalism and Public Relations

This module will examine the role of the PR industry and its link to journalism and the media. Through a number of practical workshops, you will gain a strong understanding of the principles and practices behind successful PR strategies and campaigns.

British Theatre Post-1950

This module contextualises post-war British theatre in terms of naturalism, the avant-garde, political contexts, and the epic mode. Examining a varied range of play texts, you will consider the ways in which British theatre since the Second World War has engaged with issues of class, sexuality, gender, and national identity and how form, narrative, action, and character have evolved in different contexts.

New Departures: Reading and Writing Innovative Poetry

This module combines the critical and creative study of some of the most exciting poetry written in the last fifty years. Each seminar-workshop will offer practical exercises in composition in order to aid understanding of the aesthetic and political decisions being made.

Biography: Tradition and Innovation

This module introduces you to the rich, innovative, and subversive traditions of biography as well as ground-breaking contemporary practice. The module will explore the following issues: biography as autobiography; biography as fiction; biography as poetry; biography as visual text; biography as political critique; and biography as a way of understanding our world. Postmodern concerns about what we understand by “reality,” “life,” representation, subjectivity, and “truth” will underpin our explorations, and you will be guided through a range of key research and writing techniques as you embark upon your own biographical project.

Writing for Performance

The module offers you the chance to explore the theory and practice of playwriting and writing for performance, covering concept, story, structure, characterisation, dialogue, theatricality, rewriting, and revising.

Visual Text

The term “visual text” usefully reminds us that text is visually-recorded language, designed to be perceived through sight. All text is therefore visual but readers and critics often have difficulty sustaining their awareness of its dual nature. This module is devoted to engaging with the visual delivery of text, its possibilities, and its potential to alter and influence meaning, storytelling, and criticism. You will engage in close textual analysis, and you will be encouraged to question the creative decisions behind the presentation of a wide variety of texts, including graffiti, site-specific writing, illustrated and illustrative writing, graphic novels, concrete and shaped text, and text-based animations.

Transmedia Storyworlds

The module explores the socio-cultural histories of transmedia franchises and their fictional storyworlds across TV, radio, films, comic books, and videogames. Transmedia Storyworlds equips students with an advanced understanding of how industrial forces shape productions of storyworld content across a given transmedia franchise and explores how adaptations of fictional storyworlds exploit the narrative affordances of a range of different media. The module equips students with an advanced understanding of transnational flows whereby cultures from around the world reimagine globally famous characters and storyworlds so as to establish locally specific meanings and critically examine the ideological positions of transmedia franchises and their storyworlds.

Stand-up Comedy

Through class interaction, individual research, and tutor supervision, you are encouraged to develop your own comic voice and persona and to devise and write original ideas toward solo live performance. A visiting professional comedian will be invited in to give feedback on the work before it is performed and/or recorded.

Scriptwriting for TV and Film

Through a professionally geared script development programme, you will create a premise, a treatment, a step outline, and a first draft of a complete screenplay of at least fifty minutes. In seminars, you will discuss ideas for story, character, and theme within the group. Treatments, step outlines, and the first draft are developed in one-to-one tutorials.

Please note that it may not be possible to deliver the full list of options every year as this will depend on factors such as how many students choose a particular option. Exact modules may also vary in order to keep content current. When accepting your offer of a place to study on this programme, you should be aware that not all optional modules will be running each year. Your tutor will be able to advise you as to the available options on or before the start of the programme. Whilst the University tries to ensure that you are able to undertake your preferred options, it cannot guarantee this.

What will I be doing?

Practical Projects

Contextual and written work

As part of your creative writing course, your timetable will include a breakdown of your scheduled lessons, with timeslots for you to explore your independent research interests. Your classes will be based at our Peel Park or MediaCityUK campuses.

Your lectures are fairly formal, with a lecturer addressing a large group of students from a variety of courses across the different disciplines we offer. They’re also a great opportunity to meet fellow students from across your course.

Tutorials are more informal, consisting of small group teaching that is often student-led.

Seminars are also informal and tend to be a mixture of tutor-led and student-led discussions.

Practical workshops give you the chance to demonstrate new skills. Outside speakers are sometimes invited to share their experiences in industry and give advice.

Creative writing workshops

In creative writing workshops, you’ll be given one-to-one support, including feedback from your tutors on your work: a valuable opportunity to focus on your individual practice.

Practice-based creative projects

Practice-based creative projects are directed by students. They are also where you’ll be given your assigned projects and deadlines.

An important part of your creative writing degree is the opportunity to showcase your academic strengths in a variety of different ways. Your production and creative writing modules are typically assessed through creative work, with others evaluated through essays. There are no exams as part of this course.

The constant support and excellent teaching offered helped me gain confidence in my writing. The flexible structure of this course allowed me to master key skills in screenwriting, fiction, non-fiction, and poetry writing. Furthermore, each class was filled with genuine support between peers, making the process of sharing my writing with others something to look forward to.

Giorgia Di Pancrazio

BE A PART OF A CREATIVE, SUPPORTIVE COMMUNITY

All of our  English courses  are delivered by the  Salford School of Arts, Media, and Creative Technology . Our focus is to ensure that you have the skills you need to pursue your intellectual and career interests, and we encourage our students, past and present, to collaborate with each other and to achieve great things.

Each year—through the  Create Student Awards —our School rewards the incredible achievements and successes of our final year and postgraduate students.

Whatever you choose to study with us, you will be mentored and supported by experts. And once you graduate, it will not end there. You will join a thriving alumni network across Greater Manchester and beyond, which means that you will be supported professionally and personally whenever you need it.

Whatever platform or medium you choose to explore we’ll support you. On this Creative Writing degree, you'll have access to our:

  • Excellent live performance spaces, including a 350-seat theatre
  • Broadcast standard TV acting and presenting studios (including green screen)
  • A radio drama studio
  • Post production video and audio facilities

Our students, staff, and industry also regularly perform shows to public audiences using the  New Adelphi Theatre .

You'll have access to our library which is equipped with a vast collection of books and computers suites you can use during your studies.

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Find out who will work with you throughout your academic journey at the University of Salford.

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What about after uni?

There’s never been a better time to begin your career as a professional writer. While a creative writing degree is a good course to choose if you’re a budding author, playwright, or poet, the possibilities don’t end there. Creative writing careers include roles in related industries such as publishing, editing, or teaching, but also commercial opportunities in marketing, journalism, and public relations. What’s more, you’ll be well equipped with a portfolio of work that you can use to evidence your writing skills and establish your reputation as a writer.

FURTHER STUDY

Graduates showing strong academic and research skills can pursue a further postgraduate path through   our Postgraduate programmes   on a full-time or part-time basis subject to a satisfactory proposal. 

A taste of what you could become

A screenwriter

A publishing agent

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Career Links

We’ve developed this creative writing course to meet the needs of the creative industries. That’s why you’ll work on your creative talent and subject expertise. Salford has close associations with a range of literary, academic and professional bodies across Manchester, such as the following: 

  • Red Telephone Press
  • Conville&Walsh Literary Agency
  • Legend Press
  • Erbacce Press
  • If not P then Q Press
  • Knives Forks and Spoons Press
  • The Theatre Royal, Hyde
  • British Isles North West section of Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
  • Old Vic Theatre New Voices Company
  • The Biographers' Club
  • National Association of Writers in Education
  • Carcanet Press
  • HOME Manchester

What you need to know

Applicant profile .

Dream of seeing your words in print? Want to bring your ideas to life on stage? Looking to build on your creative writing skills by learning about production and multimedia? If so, our BA (Hons) Creative Writing course is the right option for you. Offering you the chance to focus on a range of disciplines within writing, you will also develop skills in key creative technologies including audio and visual digital equipment. So, alongside being a skilled writer, you’ll also have the confidence to run creative projects from beginning to end.

Employers in the creative industries are increasingly seeking candidates with a grounding in production techniques for a range of media. That’s why this degree is designed to explore these methods within the context of film, radio, television, and printed media. This means that, as you’re writing your masterpiece, you’ll also be developing the skills needed to compete as a creative professional.

GCSE English Language at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is required. Maths at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is preferred but not essential.

You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements in addition to the Level 3 qualification requirements.

UCAS Tariff Points

104-112 UCAS Tariff Points.

104-112 UCAS Tariff Points to be obtained from a minimum of two A-Levels or equivalent. General Studies Accepted.

BTEC National Diploma

Scottish Highers

104-112 points. 

Irish Leaving Certificate

104-112 points.

International Baccalaureate

30-31 points

European Baccalaureate

Pass Diploma with 71% overall.

International students

We accept qualifications from all around the world.  Find your country  to see a full list of entry requirements.

If you are an international student and not from a majority English speaking country, you will need IELTS 6.0 with no element below 5.5. 

We also accept a range of other  English language qualifications . If you do not have the English language requirements, you could take our  Pre-Sessional English course .

Salford Alternative Entry Scheme (SAES)

We welcome applications from students who may not meet the stated entry criteria but who can demonstrate their ability to pursue the course successfully. Once we have received your application we will assess it and recommend it for SAES if you are an eligible candidate.

There are two different routes through the Salford Alternative Entry Scheme and applicants will be directed to the one appropriate for their course. Assessment will either be through a review of prior learning or through a formal test.

Additional costs

You should also consider further costs which may include books, stationery, printing, binding and general subsistence on trips and visits.

Scholarships for international students

If you are a high-achieving international student, you may be eligible for one of our scholarships. Explore our international scholarships .

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On our MA Creative Writing programme you will develop work at the cutting-edge of new and evolving practices. You will take your creative writing to the next level so that it really stands out, making it unique and distinctively attractive to the current market.

You will do this by playing to your strengths as a creative writer while engaging with fundamental issues in theories of literature and creative practice. The course offers exactly what the name suggests – it opens your mind, allows you to explore philosophical writing and challenges you to critically reflect critically upon your own creative work.

This masters in Creative Writing course will be of interest to writers of prose, poetry, scripts, hybrid and visual forms. You will not be required to commit to any one form, and will have the opportunity to move between or mix forms if you wish.

And whether you choose to study full-time or part-time, as a creative writing postgraduate student studying at Salford, you’ll be surrounded by inspiring creatives from across a range of disciplines. Manchester’s creative hub is a vibrant and exciting place to study, build community and nurture your writing talent.

  • Learn from award-winning, internationally-recognised writers and performers
  • Have the freedom to develop your own projects and inject your writing with the rigour and depth needed to work in the creative industry
  • Graduate with a strong portfolio of work that can be used to establish your reputation as a creative writer

Learn more about our MA Creative Writing courses by signing up to one of our open days. If there are any questions you would like to ask in the meantime, contact course enquiries or take a look at the other English courses we offer at Salford.

CAREER LINKS

Many of our graduates participate actively in literary culture through organising and entering literary competitions, setting up and editing anthologies, publishing work elsewhere, and taking up internships with publishers of poetry and fiction or in arts administration.

Whether our students are writers of experimental prose, poetry or script, mixed-media creators, visual text makers or performance artists, we prepare Creative Writing MA graduates for a life in the creative industries, offering instruction on production and project funding bids, PhD applications, and journal writing.

The course benefits from a programme of visiting writers to the English Subject Group. In addition, at least two workshops per academic year are convened by key figures in innovative writing. Past visitors have included: Lucy Burnett, Robert Sheppard, Phil Davenport, Allen Fisher, Camille Martin, Carrie Etter, Philip Kuhn, Tony Trehy and Christine Kennedy.

Other industry links are Carcanet Press who offer one week’s internship in their marketing department, Arts Council England, International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Streetcake experimental writing magazine, Knives Forks and Spoons Poetry Press, Portico Library and Working Class Movement Library.

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On our MA Creative Writing programme you will develop work at the cutting-edge of new and evolving practices. You will take your creative writing to the next level so that it really stands out, making it unique and distinctively attractive to the current market.

You will do this by playing to your strengths as a creative writer while engaging with fundamental issues in theories of literature and creative practice. The course offers exactly what the name suggests – it opens your mind, allows you to explore philosophical writing and challenges you to critically reflect critically upon your own creative work.

This masters in Creative Writing course will be of interest to writers of prose, poetry, scripts, hybrid and visual forms. You will not be required to commit to any one form, and will have the opportunity to move between or mix forms if you wish.

And whether you choose to study full-time or part-time, as a creative writing postgraduate student studying at Salford, you’ll be surrounded by inspiring creatives from across a range of disciplines. Manchester’s creative hub is a vibrant and exciting place to study, build community and nurture your writing talent.

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Podcaster. Journalist. Novelist. Poet. Screenwriter. Whatever kind of writer you want to be, on this course you’ll gain the tools and training you need to take the first step in your professional writing career.As you progress through your studies, you’ll have the chance to explore writing in a unique range of contexts, from screenwriting to the gaming industry to experimental visual texts and comic books, as well as the core mediums of poetry and the novel. It’s all geared towards your future writing career.As an undergraduate creative writing student studying at Salford, you’ll also have access to the creative writing opportunities Manchester has to offer. You’ll be joining a vibrant community of practising creatives with the chance to flourish in our state-of-the-art campuses in MediaCityUK and Peel Park – both of which designed to nurture talent across the city.

- Develop a wide range of skillsets designed to open up a world of creative writing careers- Explore diverse creative writing forms, including experimental writing, playwriting, screenwriting, journalism, poetry and prose fiction- Graduate with a creative writing portfolio that evidences the skills you've learnt to potential employers, or for further study.This course is just one of our English and Creative Writing programmes, which have risen ten places in the 2020 Guardian university league tables, and in 2020 gained 96% student satisfaction, demonstrating our strengths in the areas of research quality and graduate prospects.

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104 - 112 UCAS Points. Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential. General studies accepted

104-112 points. Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential.

Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential. General Studies accepted

Pass Level 3 Access to HE Diploma with 104–112 points (English Literature or English Language)

GCSE English Language at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent). Maths at grade C/4 or above (or equivalent) is preferred but not essential.You must fulfil our GCSE entry requirements in addition to the Level 3 qualification requirements.

Creative Writing, English language, English literature, English language/literature subjects preferred but not essential.

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Critical Thinking and Writing (CTW) 1 & 2

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Meta-Goals: Information Literacy and Intentional Learning

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Goals: Global Cultures, Arts & Humanities, Critical Thinking, Perspective

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Goals: Critical Thinking, Mathematics & Quantitative Reasoning, Communication, Complexity

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BUSINESS students must take MATH 30 and 31, unless the student expects to take a third quarter of mathematics, in which case they should take MATH 11 and 12. 

ENGINEERING students must take MATH 11 and MATH 12. LIFE SCIENCE students take MATH 35 and MATH 36.  ARTS AND SCIENCES (except Life Science majors) students select any course from this list.

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4 The Nature of Mathematics

6 Finite Mathematics for Social Science

8 Introduction to Statistics

11 Calculus & Analytic Geometry I

12 Calculus & Analytic Geometry II

30 Calculus for Business

35 Calculus for Life Sciences I

36 Calculus for Life Sciences II

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5 Mediterranean Religious Traditions

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16 Values in Technology

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7 South and Southeast Asian Traditions

8 Jews, Judaism, and Film

9 Ways of Understanding Religions

10 Asian Religious Traditions

11 Asian Christianity

12 Latinos & Lived Religion in U.S.

14 Exploring Living Religions 15 Mapping Living Religion

16 Ecstatic Experience, Film, and Religion

19 Egyptian Religious Traditions

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11 Controversies in Religion: Ancient & Modern

15 Texting God

19 Religions of the Book

Theology, Ethics, and Spirituality (TESP)

2 Magicians, Athletes, & God

4 The Christian Tradition

16 Religion, Science and Ecology

Goals: Communication, Perspective

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B.A. and B.S. (Social Sciences) students need to complete the 3rd course of any first year language, i.e., Elementary Language III. B.S. (Natural Sciences and Mathematics) students need to complete the 2nd course of any first year language, i.e., Elementary Language II.

B.S. (Engineering) students fulfill requirement by two years of high school study in a second language.

B.S.C. (Leavey School of Business) students need to complete the 2nd course of any first year language, i.e., Elementary Language II.

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21 Intermediate Arabic I 22 Intermediate Arabic II 23 Intermediate Arabic III 50 Intermediate Arabic Conversation

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21 Intermediate Chinese I 22 Intermediate Chinese II 23 Intermediate Chinese III 100 Advanced Chinese I 101 Advanced Chinese II 102 Advanced Chinese III 127 Chinese History and Culture

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CLAS 2 - Elementary Latin II CLAS 3 - Elementary Latin III CLAS 21 - Greek Myth in Introductory Greek CLAS 22 - Elementary Greek II CLAS 23 - Elementary Greek III CLAS 101 - Intermediate Latin CLAS 123 - Roman Comedy CLAS 153 - Euripides

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21 French Language and Francophone Cultures I 21A Close Encounters of a Different Kind: Tales and Legends from the Francophone World  22 French Language and Francophone Cultures II 22A Language, Film, & Youth Culture 50 Intermediate French Conversation 100 Introduction to French and Francophone Studies 101 Introduction to Literary and Cultural Analysis 102 Advanced French III 103 Critical Writing in French 103A (W)rites of Passage: French Writing Workshop 104 The Art of Story-Telling: Creative Writing Workshop 105 Across Language Borders: Interpretation and Translation 106 Oral Communication in French 108 French for a Global Marketplace 110 Contemporary France: Cultures, Society and Politics 111 Introduction to the Francophone World 113 Sub-Saharan African/Caribbean Women Writers 114 Literatures and Cultures of the Maghreb 115 French Literature & Culture I 116 French Literature & Culture II 117 French Orientalism: Representation of Otherness in Literature, Cinema, and Visual Arts 150 The French Revolution in a Global Context 171 20th-Century France: War, Memory, and Trauma 172 Introduction to French Cinema 173 Immigration, Race, and Identity in Contemporary France 174 French and Francophone Novels and Films: Culture, Gender, and Class 175 Transnational Cinema 176 French Perspectives on Social Justice 182 Women in French Literature 183 20th- and 21st-Century French Women Writers 185 Sociolinguistics: The Francophone World 186 Politics of Love

GERMAN (GERM)

21 Intermediate German I 22 Intermediate German II 23 Intermediate German III 100 Advanced German I 101 Advanced German II 106 Advanced German Conversation 108 German Business Culture and Institutions 110 History of German Civilization 111 Contemporary German Civilization 112 German in the Media 113 German Film: From Fassbinder to Fatih Akin 140 German Fairy Tales 150 20th Century Novel 160 The German Novelle 174 German Novels and Films 182 Women in German Literature: Authors and Characters

ITALIAN (ITAL)

21 Intermediate Italian I 22 Intermediate Italian II 50 Intermediate Italian Language & Culture 100 Introduction to Italian Culture 101 Italian Food Culture 102 Made in Italy and Italian Entrepreneurship 106 Advanced Italian Conversation 108 Translation Workshop 113 Introduction to Italian Cinema 114 Contemporary Italian Culture 120 Italian Literature and Culture I 121 Italian Literature and Culture II 125 Colloquium: Italian Literature and Culture 154 Nature and the Italian Literary Imagination 180 Novecento Italian Literature of the 20th Century 182 20th-Century Italian Women Writers 183 Women in Italian Cinema: The Impact of Globalization 187i Destination Italy: Immigration in Film and Literature

JAPANESE (JAPN)

21 Intermediate Japanese I 22 Intermediate Japanese II 23 Intermediate Japanese III 100 Advanced Japanese I 101 Advanced Japanese II 102 Advanced Japanese III 113 Readings in Japanese I 114 Readings in Japanese II 115 Readings in Japanese III

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21 Crossing Boundaries (Intermediate) 21A News and Culture in the Hispanic World (Intermediate) 21EL Intermediate Spanish I. Experiential Learning 22 Latino Cultures and Identities in Contemporary Film (Intermediate) 22A Gender, Identity and Food Cultures in Latin America 22B Spanish, Technology, & Culture 22EL Immigration Stories: Cultural, Political, and Personal Narratives (Intermediate) 23 Activism and Social Justice in the Spanish-speaking World (Intermediate) 23EL Experiential Learning (Intermediate) 100 Introduction to Cultural Analysis in Spanish 101 Introduction to Literary & Cultural Analysis  101M Introduction to Literary & Cultural Analysis: Migration 102 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics 103 The Structure of Spanish Words and Phrases 107 Writing Workshop 108 The Art of Narrative Nonfiction: Creative Writing Workshop 110 Oral Communication in Spanish 112 Mexican Culture 113 The Revolution in Mexican Culture 114 Culture and Society of the U.S-Mexico Border 123 Contemporary Spanish Culture 125 Colloquium: Spanish Literature and Culture 130 Survey of Latin American Literature I 131 Survey of Latin American Literature II 132 Hispanic Voices for Social Change 133 Mexican American Literature 135 Colloquium: Latin American Literature and Culture 136 Contemporary Latin American Short Story 137 Latin American Cultures and Civilizations 138 Hispanic Poetry 139 Haunted Literature: Ghosts and the Talking Dead in Latin American Narrative 143 Detective Short Story 146 Latin American Documentary 147 Cinema, Politics, and Society in Latin America 148 20th-Century Latin American Women Writers 156 Representations of the Migrant Condition in Contemporary Spain 165 Cervantes: Don Quijote 170 Spanish & the Community 175 History of the Spanish Language 176 Spanish and Latinxs in the United States

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