At MassArt, visual artists and designers thrive as creative writers, giving voice to their unique perspectives and untold stories.
As a Creative Writing Minor student at MassArt, you’ll join a community of visual artists and designers who are passionate about writing creatively and integrating the written word into their creative practice. Learning from one another, accomplished faculty, and diverse visiting writers, you can create poems, stories, plays, graphic narratives, personal essays, scripts, and yet-to-be-defined genres. Read widely, workshop your writing, and find innovative ways to integrate the visual and the verbal.
In our program, you’ll have an advisor through the Humanities Department who assists you in choosing courses and planning for the future. You can complete your general education requirements while writing creatively through 18 credits of literature and creative writing courses, generally six 3-credit courses.
Among the Creative Writing Minor course options:
- Literature in Dialogue (prerequisite for all others)
- Creative Writing: A Multigenre Workshop
- Fiction Workshop
- Poetry Workshop
- Film Script Writing/Adaptation
- Children’s Literature
- Creating a Comic Book
- Memoir & the Artist
- Artist’s Writing
You may officially declare your Creative Writing Minor at any time through MassArt’s Registrar’s Office.
Creative Writing Minor Learning Objectives
Students who complete the Creative Writing Minor program are expected to be able to demonstrate the following learning objectives.
- Write poems, stories, plays, graphic narratives, and more
- Distinguish yourself as artist/designer and creative writer
- Meet other students with literary aspirations
- Connect art or design with writing
- Explore the world of contemporary creative writing
- Interact with established writers
- Read, perform, and present your own work
- Discover innovative ways of writing and communicating
- Listen to and learn from diverse writers
- Put into practice what you learn from literature
- Enlarge your understanding of humanity and the world through literature and writing
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