May 12, 2024  
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Graduate Catalog

Creative Writing, Certificate (online)


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Email: english@bgsu.edu

This fully-online graduate certificate program is designed for creative writers seeking to sharpen their skills and work toward publishable fiction and/or poetry, and for teachers seeking to improve and enhance their pedagogy of Creative Writing. Through a foundational course in techniques followed by workshop classes in which original creative work is read and critiqued, students will complete and revise a body of work under the guidance of experienced teachers and authors from Bowling Green State University’s acclaimed Creative Writing Program. 

Admission Requirements

Additional Documents Required:

  • Statement of Purpose* - should identify the program for which admission is sought and explain preparation for the program, the purpose for enrolling in it, and professional goals relevant to the program
  • Writing Sample - submit 8 to 10 double-spaced pages of prose or 5 pages of poetry. Applicants currently admitted in the English: Individualized Track - MA (Online) at Bowling Green State University need only submit a Statement of Purpose. Please contact adaezoo@bgsu.edu to request your Writing Sample waiver (if you were admitted to the English: Individualized Track - MA (Online) at BGSU).

Application Requirements

Admissions Categories and Grade Point Average Requirements

International Application Information

Degree Requirements

Curriculum Requirements


Required Courses (12 credits)


Option 1

Techniques - Complete both courses

ENG 6300 - Technique of Poetry  

ENG 6310 - Technique of Fiction  

Graduate Writer’s Workshop

Take 2 Sections of ENG 6320 - Graduate Writers Workshop   in any genre

Option 2:

Techniques - Complete 1 course

ENG 6300 - Technique of Poetry  

ENG 6310 - Technique of Fiction  

Graduate Writer’s Workshop

Take 3 sections of ENG 6320 - Graduate Writers Workshop  in any genre

 

 

Electives (6 credits)


Minimum Total Credits (12 credits)


Additional Requirements


  • Minimum 3.0 graduate cumulative grade point average
  • All requirements must be completed within six years from the end of the earliest course used to fulfill certificate requirements.

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