University of California, Berkeley 1 Creative Writing Minor The Creative Writing Program is an interdisciplinary minor program offered by the Office of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Division of Undergraduate Studies in the College of Letters & Science. The approved courses students take to satisfy the minor course requirements are offered by over forty departments and programs on campus. Interested undergraduate students in any major may earn an interdepartmental minor in creative writing by completing the requirements listed in the Minor Requirements tab. For further information, please also see the Creative Writing Minor Student Handbook (http://creative.ugis.berkeley.edu/formsdownloads) and the program's Frequently Asked Questions pages (http:// creative.ugis.berkeley.edu/faq). There is no major program in Creative Writing. Declaring the Minor Students need to petition to minor in Creative Writing. Information regarding declaring the minor, including deadlines, is available on the program's website (http://ugis.ls.berkeley.edu/creative). Students who are interested in the Creative Writing minor are encouraged to subscribe to the Creative Writing minor email newsletter to receive important news about the minor, including special approval courses for the minor that are not published on the website. To subscribe, email demir@berkeley.edu. Students who have a strong interest in an area of study outside their major often decide to complete a minor program. These programs have set requirements and are noted officially on the transcript in the memoranda section, but are not noted on diplomas. General Guidelines 1. Five upper division courses are required, consisting of three approved courses in creative writing and two approved courses in literature. 2. All courses taken to fulfill the minor requirements must be taken for graded credit (a letter grade).. A minimum of three of the upper division courses taken to fulfill the minor requirements must be completed at UC Berkeley.. A minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 is required for courses used to fulfill the minor requirements. 5. Courses used to fulfill the minor requirements may be applied toward the Seven-Course Breadth requirement for Letters & Science students. 6. No more than one upper division course may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for a major program. 7. No more than one upper division course may be used to simultaneously fulfill requirements for another minor program. 8. All minor requirements must be completed prior to the last day of finals during the semester in which you plan to graduate. If you cannot finish all courses required for the minor by that time, please see a College of Letters & Science adviser. 9. All minor requirements must be completed within the unit ceiling. (For further information regarding the unit ceiling, please see the College Requirements tab.) Course Requirements Upper Division Select three courses in creative writing (see below) 1 Select two courses in literature (see below) 1 At least two of the three writing courses must be taken at UC Berkeley. Students may be allowed to include courses that are not on the following lists with the approval of the creative writing minor faculty adviser. It is the responsibility of the student to provide the faculty adviser with documentary evidence to support the claim of course eligibility. Contact the creative writing minor student academic adviser at demir@berkeley.edu for more information. Creative Writing AFRICAM 156AC Poetry for the People: Introduction to the Art of Poetry AFRICAM 158A Poetry for the People: The Writing and Teaching of Poetry AFRICAM 158B Poetry for the People: Practicum AMERSTD C17 Visual Autobiography ASAMST 17 Creative Writing COLWRIT 10 Introduction to the Craft of Creative Writing COLWRIT 11 Introduction to the Craft of Creative Nonfiction COLWRIT 12 Introduction to the Craft of Short Fiction COLWRIT 1 Introduction to the Craft of Dramatic Writing COLWRIT 10B Seminar-Workshop in Creative Writing COLWRIT 11 Seminar-Workshop on Creative Writing: The Novel CRWRIT 120 Reading and Writing Poetry CRWRIT 10 Creative Prose ENGLISH 11 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.) ENGLISH N11 Modes of Writing (Exposition, Fiction, Verse, Etc.) ENGLISH 1A Short Fiction ENGLISH 1B Verse ENGLISH 1C Long Narrative ENGLISH 1E Playwriting ENGLISH 1N Prose Nonfiction ENGLISH 1T Poetry Translation Workshop ENGLISH C1V Visual Autobiography ENV DES 101A ENV DES 101B Writing about Environmental Design: Short Compositions Writing about Environmental Design: One Longer Composition FILM 180 Introduction to Screenwriting FILM 181 Screenwriting FRENCH 19 Creative Writing in French NATAMST 150 Native American Narratives THEATER 19A Fundamentals of Playwriting THEATER 19B Playwriting UGIS C15 Visual Autobiography VIS STD C185A Visual Autobiography - -
2 Creative Writing Literature AFRICAM C1B Research-to-Performance Laboratory AFRICAM C1C Black Theatre Workshop AFRICAM 150B African American Literature 1920 to Present AFRICAM N150B Survey of African American Literary Forms and Styles 1920 to 1980 AFRICAM 152F Neo-Slave Narratives AFRICAM 15C Novels of Toni Morrison AFRICAM 155 Literature of the Caribbean: Significant Themes AFRICAM 159 Special Topics in African American Literature - AMERSTD C152 Native American Literature ANTHRO 160AC Forms of Folklore ANTHRO 161 Narrative Folklore ANTHRO 162 Topics in Folklore ANTHRO N162 Introduction to Arabic Folklore ARABIC 10A Modern Arabic Prose ARABIC 10B Classical Arabic Prose ARABIC 105A Modern Arabic Poetry ARABIC 105B Classical Arabic Poetry ARABIC 111A Survey of Arabic Literature (in Arabic) ARABIC 111B Survey of Arabic Literature (in Arabic) ASAMST 172 Asian American Literature ASAMST 175 Contemporary Narratives on the Philippines and the United States ASAMST 176 Genre in Asian American Literature ASAMST 181 Chinese American Literature ASAMST 18 Korean American Literature BUDDSTD C10 Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts CELTIC 119A Welsh and Arthurian Literature of the Middle Ages CELTIC 119B Welsh and Arthurian Literature of the Middle Ages CELTIC 125 Irish Literature in Translation CELTIC 18 Irish Literature CELTIC 19 Irish Literature CELTIC 16A Medieval Welsh Language and Literature CELTIC 16B Medieval Welsh Language and Literature CELTIC 168 Celtic Mythology and Oral Tradition CHICANO 11 Chicana Feminist Writers and Discourse CHICANO 12 Major Chicano Writers CHICANO 1 Chicano and Latin American Literature CHINESE 120 Ancient Chinese Prose CHINESE 122 Ancient Chinese Poetry CHINESE 1 Readings in Classical Chinese Poetry CHINESE 16 Readings in Medieval Prose CHINESE C10 Readings in Chinese Buddhist Texts CHINESE 155 Readings in Vernacular Chinese Literature CHINESE 156 Modern Chinese Literature CHINESE 157 Contemporary Chinese Literature CLASSIC 12 Classical Poetics COLWRIT 10A Readings on Creative Writing COM LIT 100 Introduction to Comparative Literature COM LIT 120 The Biblical Tradition in Western Literature COM LIT 151 The Ancient Mediterranean World COM LIT 152 The Middle Ages COM LIT 15 The Renaissance COM LIT 15 Eighteenth- and 19th-Century Literature COM LIT 155 The Modern Period COM LIT 156 Fiction and Culture of the Americas COM LIT 165 Myth and Literature COM LIT 171 Topics in Modern Greek Literature COM LIT 190 Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature DUTCH 10 Topics in Dutch Literature DUTCH C16 DUTCH 166 EA LANG 105 EA LANG 106 The Indonesian Connection: Dutch Literature About the Indies in English Translation Anne Frank and After: Dutch Literature of the Holocaust in English Translation Dynamics of Romantic Core Values in East Asian Premodern Literature and Contemporary Film Expressing the Ineffable in China and Beyond: The Making of Meaning in Poetic Writing ENGLISH C107 Course Not Available ENGLISH N107 English Bible as Literature ENGLISH 110 Medieval Literature ENGLISH 111 Chaucer ENGLISH 112 Middle English Literature ENGLISH 11A English Drama ENGLISH N11A English Drama ENGLISH 11B English Drama ENGLISH N11B English Drama ENGLISH 115A The English Renaissance ENGLISH N115A The English Renaissance ENGLISH 115B The English Renaissance ENGLISH N115B The English Renaissance ENGLISH 117A Shakespeare ENGLISH 117B Shakespeare ENGLISH 117F Shakespeare and Film ENGLISH 117J Shakespeare ENGLISH 117S Shakespeare ENGLISH N117S Shakespeare ENGLISH 117T Shakespeare in the Theatre ENGLISH 118 Milton ENGLISH N118 Milton ENGLISH 119 Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century ENGLISH 120 Literature of the Later 18th Century ENGLISH 121 Romantic Period ENGLISH N121 Romantic Period ENGLISH 122 Victorian Period ENGLISH 125A The English Novel ENGLISH 125B The English Novel ENGLISH N125B The English Novel ENGLISH 125C The European Novel ENGLISH 125D The 20th-Century Novel ENGLISH N125D The 20th-Century Novel ENGLISH 125E The Contemporary Novel
University of California, Berkeley ENGLISH N125E The Contemporary Novel ENGLISH 126 British Literature: 1900-195 ENGLISH 127 Modern Poetry ENGLISH 10A American Literature: Before 1800 ENGLISH N10A American Literature: Before 1800 ENGLISH 10B American Literature: 1800-1865 ENGLISH N10B American Literature: 1800-1865 ENGLISH 10C American Literature: 1865-1900 ENGLISH 10D American Literature: 1900-195 ENGLISH N10D American Literature: 1900-195 ENGLISH 11 American Poetry ENGLISH 12 American Novel ENGLISH N12 American Novel ENGLISH 1A ENGLISH 1B African American Literature and Culture Before 1917 African American Literature and Culture Since 1917 ENGLISH 1T Topics in African American Literature and Culture ENGLISH 1 Contemporary Literature ENGLISH N1 Contemporary Literature ENGLISH 15AC Literature of American Cultures ENGLISH N15 Literature of American Cultures ENGLISH C16 Topics in American Studies ENGLISH 17A Chicana/o Literature and Culture to 1910 ENGLISH 17B Chicana/o Literature and Culture Since 1910 ENGLISH 17T Topics in Chicana/o Literature and Culture ENGLISH 18 Studies in World Literature in English ENGLISH 19 The Cultures of English ENGLISH 152 Women Writers ENGLISH N152 Women Writers ENGLISH 165 Special Topics ENGLISH 165AC Special Topics in American Cultures ENGLISH 166 Special Topics ENGLISH N166 Special Topics ENGLISH 166AC Special Topics in American Cultures ENGLISH 170 Literature and the Arts ENGLISH 171 Literature and Sexual Identity ENGLISH 172 Literature and Psychology ENGLISH 17 Literature and History ENGLISH 175 Literature and Disability ENGLISH 176 Literature and Popular Culture ENGLISH N176 Literature and Popular Culture ENGLISH 177 Literature and Philosophy ENGLISH N177 Literature and Philosophy ENGLISH 178 British and American Folklore ENGLISH 179 Literature and Linguistics ENGLISH 180A Autobiography ENGLISH N180A Autobiography ENGLISH 180C Comedy ENGLISH 180E The Epic ENGLISH 180H Short Story ENGLISH N180H Short Story ENGLISH 180J The Essay ENGLISH 180L Lyric Verse ENGLISH 180N The Novel ENGLISH 180R The Romance ENGLISH 180S Satire ENGLISH 180T Tragedy ENGLISH 180Z Science Fiction ENGLISH N180Z Science Fiction ENGLISH 190 Research Seminar ETH STD 100 Comparative Ethnic Literature in America ETH STD N100 Comparative Ethnic Literature in America ETH STD 17 Existential Panic in American Ethnic Literature ETH STD 175 Literature from Ethnic Movements FRENCH 112A Medieval Literature FRENCH 112B Medieval Literature FRENCH 11A Late Medieval Literature FRENCH 116A Sixteenth-Century Literature: Marot to Montaigne FRENCH 117A Seventeenth-Century Literature FRENCH 117B Seventeenth-Century Literature FRENCH 118A Eighteenth-Century Literature FRENCH 118B Eighteenth-Century Literature FRENCH 119A Nineteenth-Century Literature FRENCH 119B Nineteenth-Century Literature FRENCH 120A Twentieth-Century Literature FRENCH 120B Twentieth-Century Literature FRENCH 121A Literary Themes, Genres, and Structures FRENCH 121B Literary Themes, Genres, and Structures FRENCH 122A Literary Criticism FRENCH 122B Literary Criticism FRENCH 12 Prose Fiction FRENCH 126 Senior Seminar FRENCH 10A French Literature in English Translation FRENCH 10B French Literature in English Translation FRENCH 10C French Literature in English Translation FRENCH 10D French Literature in English Translation FRENCH 150A Women in French Literature FRENCH 150B Women in French Literature FRENCH 151A Francophone Literature FRENCH 151B Francophone Literature FRENCH 172A Psychoanalytic Theory and Literature FRENCH 17 Music and Literature FRENCH 175A Literature and the Visual Arts FRENCH 185 Literature and Colonialism GWS C16A Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Literary Culture GERMAN 108 Literary Translation GERMAN 110 The Literature of the Middle Ages GERMAN 112 Early Modern Literature GERMAN 12 From 1800 to the Present GERMAN 11 Goethe GERMAN 10 Romanticism GERMAN 17 German Drama and Opera
Creative Writing GERMAN 18 Topics in Narrative GERMAN 151 Eighteenth- to 21st-Century German Poetry GERMAN 152 Modern Literature GERMAN 175B Undergraduate Seminars: 20th-Century Poetry GREEK 100 Plato and Attic Prose GREEK 101 Homer GREEK 102 Drama and Society GREEK 105 The Greek New Testament GREEK 115 Archaic Poetry GREEK 116 Greek Drama GREEK 117 Hellenistic Poets GREEK 120 Herodotus GREEK 121 Thucydides GREEK 122 Attic Oratory GREEK 12 Plato and Aristotle GREEK 125 Greek Literature of the Hellenistic and Imperial Periods HEBREW 10A Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture HEBREW 10B Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture HIN-URD 101A Readings in Modern Hindi HIN-URD 101B Readings in Modern Hindi ITALIAN 10 Reading Italian Literature ITALIAN 109 Dante's Commedia (in Italian) ITALIAN 110 Literature and Culture of the 1th and 1th Centuries ITALIAN 112 Sixteenth-Century Literature and Culture ITALIAN 115 Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture ITALIAN 117 Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature ITALIAN 120 Topics in Italian Studies ITALIAN 10A Dante's Inferno (in English) ITALIAN 10B Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso (in English) ITALIAN 16 Special Topics in Italian Literature JAPAN 10 Classical Japanese Poetry JAPAN 12 Premodern Japanese Diary (Nikki) Literature JAPAN 10 Heian Prose JAPAN 1 Edo Literature JAPAN 155 Modern Japanese Literature JAPAN 159 Contemporary Japanese Literature JAPAN 170 Classical Japanese Literature in Translation JAPAN 177 Urami: Rancor and Revenge in Japanese Literature JAPAN 180 Ghosts and the Modern Literary Imagination KOREAN 101 Fourth-Year Readings: Korean Literature KOREAN 10 Genre and Occasion in Traditional Poetry KOREAN 10 Narrating Persons and Objects in Traditional Korean Prose KOREAN 150 Modern Korean Poetry KOREAN 15 Readings in Modern Korean Literature KOREAN 155 Modern Korean Fiction KOREAN 157 Contemporary Korean Literature KOREAN 172 Gender and Korean Literature KOREAN 180 Critical Approaches to Modern Korean Literature LATIN 100 Republican Prose LATIN 101 Vergil LATIN 102 Lyric and Society LATIN 115 Roman Drama LATIN 116 Lucretius, Vergil's Georgics LATIN 119 Latin Epic LATIN 120 Latin Prose to AD 1 LATIN 121 Tacitus LATIN 122 Post-Augustan Prose LATIN 10 Medieval Latin LATIN 155A Readings in Medieval Latin LGBT C16A Cultural Representations of Sexualities: Queer Literary Culture NATAMST C152 Native American Literature NATAMST C166 Course Not Available 1 NATAMST C171 Course Not Available 1 NE STUD 105A Ancient Mesopotamian Documents and Literature NE STUD 11 Gilgamesh: King, Hero, and God NE STUD 12 Biblical Poetry NE STUD 19 Modern Jewish Literatures NE STUD 151 Folktales of the Middle East NE STUD 15 NE STUD 155 Narratives of Identity in Israeli and Palestinian Fiction Wonder and the Fantastic: <The Thousand and One Nights> in World Literary Imagination NE STUD 162A History of Persian Literature NE STUD 162B History of Persian Literature NE STUD 170A Turkish Literature in Translation NE STUD 170B Turkish Literature in Translation PERSIAN 101A Readings in Persian Literature PERSIAN 101B Readings in Persian Literature PERSIAN 102A Readings in Classical Persian Prose PERSIAN 102B Readings in Classical Persian Prose PERSIAN 10A Classical Persian Poetry PERSIAN 10B Classical Persian Poetry PERSIAN 10B Contemporary Persian Literature PERSIAN 105 Modern Analytical Prose in Persian PORTUG 10 Introduction to Brazilian Literature PORTUG 128 Twentieth-Century Brazilian Literature PORTUG 15 Studies in Luso-Brazilian Literature RELIGST C108 Scandinavian Myth and Religion RELIGST C119 Course Not Available RHETOR 112 Rhetoric of Narrative Genres in Nonliterate Societies RHETOR 121 Rhetoric of Fiction RHETOR 122 Rhetoric of Drama RHETOR 12 Rhetoric of Poetry RHETOR 125 Poetics and Poetry RHETOR 127 Novel, Society, and Politics RHETOR 129 Rhetoric of Autobiography RHETOR 129AC Autobiography and American Individualism RHETOR 10 Novel into Film RHETOR 11T Genre in Film and Literature RHETOR 156 Rhetoric of the Political Novel
University of California, Berkeley 5 SCANDIN 106 The Works of Hans Christian Andersen SCANDIN C107 Plays of Ibsen SCANDIN C108 Strindberg SCANDIN 116 Studies in Prose SCANDIN 120 The Novel in Scandinavian SCANDIN 125 Old Norse Literature SCANDIN 150 Studies in Scandinavian Literature SCANDIN C160 Scandinavian Myth and Religion SCANDIN 165 Scandinavian Folklore SCANDIN 170 Arctic Folklore and Mythology in Nordic Lands SLAVIC 11 Literature, Art, and Society in 20th-Century Russia SLAVIC 12 Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and the English Novel SLAVIC 1 The Novel in Russia and the West SLAVIC 1A Gogol SLAVIC 1C Dostoevsky SLAVIC 1D Tolstoy SLAVIC 1E Chekhov SLAVIC 1F Nabokov SLAVIC 1G Tolstoy and Dostoevsky SLAVIC 1R Course Not Available 1 SLAVIC 17A East Slavic Folklore SLAVIC 17B Balkan Folklore SLAVIC 150 Polish Literature and Intellectual Trends SLAVIC 151 Readings in Polish Literature SLAVIC 170 Survey of Yugoslav Literatures SLAVIC 171 Readings in Yugoslav Literatures SLAVIC 181 Readings in Russian Literature SLAVIC 182 Pushkin S ASIAN 121 Classical Indian Literature in Translation S ASIAN 122 The Novel in India S ASIAN 12 Modern Indian Literature SEASIAN 128 Introduction to Modern Indonesian and Malaysian Literature in Translation SEASIAN 129 Mainland Southeast Asian Literature SPANISH 10A Survey of Spanish American Literature SPANISH 10B Survey of Spanish American Literature SPANISH 107A Survey of Spanish Literature SPANISH 107B Survey of Spanish Literature SPANISH 109 Spanish Drama of the 16th and 17th Centuries SPANISH 111A Cervantes SPANISH 111B Cervantes SPANISH 115 Spanish Poetry SPANISH 15 Studies in Hispanic Literature SPANISH 15W Studies in Hispanic Literature - Writing Intensive SPANISH 185 Course Not Available TAMIL 101A Readings in Tamil TAMIL 101B Readings in Tamil THEATER C107 Plays of Ibsen THEATER C108 Strindberg THEATER 126 Performance Literatures THEATER C18CBlack Theatre Workshop TURKISH 101A Readings in Modern Turkish TURKISH 101B Readings in Modern Turkish YIDDISH 10 Readings in Yiddish