Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Writing at University of North Dakota

Programme overview

Enhance your creativity—and your writing skills—while gaining hands-on experience producing a variety of literary genres. UND's undergraduate Creative Writing certificate will help you develop as a writer. Along the way, you'll have opportunities to become more analytical, more collaborative, and more aware of how and why narrative works.

Faculty: College of Arts & Sciences | Duration: 1 year (12 credit hours) | Study mode: full-time | Intake: Fall (Aug. 15), Spring (Dec. 15), Summer (May 1) | Location: Grand Forks, ND, United States

What you will study

Required courses include ENGL 226 Introduction to Creative Writing; ENGL 271 Reading and Writing about Texts; ENGL 306 Intermediate Fiction Writing; ENGL 308 Intermediate Creative Nonfiction Writing; ENGL 412 Advanced Creative Nonfiction Writing; ENGL 413 Advanced Poetry Writing.

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Application information

Entry requirements

University-wide undergraduate admission (not specific to this major): complete 14 units of high school core courses (English 4, math 3 of Algebra I or above, lab science 3, social studies 3, plus 1 additional unit from those areas or a world language); a high school GPA of 2.75 or higher is recommended (3.25 for Aviation Management and Commercial Aviation); ACT/SAT scores are not required. Source: UND Freshmen admissions page.

Tuition is charged per credit, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Terms run Fall (August-December), Spring (January-May) and Summer (May-August).

Apply through the official page: https://und.edu/admissions/apply.html

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