Oct 24, 2025  
2025-2026 Lakeland University Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Lakeland University Undergraduate Catalog

Four-Year Plan: Creative Writing


 
Year One
Fall Semester Semester Hrs Notes Grade Spring Semester  Semester Hrs Notes Grade
ART 263 - Art History I  OR ART 264 - Art History II  (DS#1) 3     CRW 220 - Poetry Writing   3    
CRW 115 - Writing in the Genres  (DS#2)  3     CRW 460 - Writer’s Studio (0 semester hours)   0    
GEN 110 - Composition I: Academic Writing (4 semester hours)   4     Distributional Study #3  3    
GEN 130 - First Year Seminar I  3     GEN 112 - Composition II: Argumentation and Research   3    

MAT 120 - Quantitative Reasoning  OR

MAT 140 - Advanced Algebra  

3     Minor/Elective Course 3    
        MUS 120 - Music in History and Culture        
Total Hours 16     Total Hours 15    
Summer Semester (Optional)
Elective Course 3     Elective Course 3    
Elective Course 3     Elective Course 3    
Year Two
Fall Semester Semester Hrs Notes Grade Spring Semester Semester Hrs Notes Grade
CRW 215 - Fiction Writing   3     CRW 250 - Screenwriting   3    
CRW 240 - Nonfiction Writing   3     CRW 410 - Advanced Fiction Writing   3    

CRW 420 - Advanced Poetry Writing  

3     CRW 460 - Writer’s Studio (0 semester hours)   0    
Distributional Study #4 3     Distributional Study #5 3    
Minor/Elective Course 3     Minor/Elective Course 3    
        Minor/Elective Course 3    
Total Hours 15     Total Hours 15    
Summer Semester (Optional)
Elective Course 3     Elective Course 3    
Elective Course 3     Elective Course 3    
Year Three
Fall Semester Semester Hrs Notes Grade Spring Semester Semester Hrs Notes Grade
ART/GDN/MUS/THE course 3    

CRW 400 - Internship in Writing (0-4 semester hours)  in:

  • Literary publishing or Mirror Editorship OR 
  • Literary event planning and management
2    
Distributional Study #6 3     CRW 440 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing   3    
ENG 320 - Exploring American Literature   3     CRW 460 - Writer’s Studio (0 semester hours)   0    
ENG 370 - Shakespeare  3     CRW /WRT 465 - Developing the Writing Project (1 semester hour)   1    
GEN 3XX - Seminar II 3     WRT 300 - Advanced Composition (WI)   3    
        Minor/Elective Course 3    
        Minor/Elective Course 3    
Total Hours 15     Total Hours 15    
Summer Semester (Optional)
Elective Course 3     Elective Course 3    
Elective Course 3     Elective Course 3    
Year Four
Fall Semester Semester Hrs Notes Grade Spring Semester Semester Hrs Notes Grade

CRW 400 - Internship in Writing (0-4 semester hours) 

  • Literary publishing or Mirror Editorship OR 
  • Literary event planning and management
2     CRW 460 - Writer’s Studio (0 semester hours)   0    
CRW /WRT 480 - Special Topics in Writing   3     CRW /WRT 470 - Senior Project in Writing   3    
ENG 3XX/4XX - 300 or 400 level English course 3     Minor/Elective Course 3    
GEN 4XX - Seminar III (WI) 3     Minor/Elective Course 3    
Minor/Elective Course 3     Minor/Elective Course 3    
        Minor/Elective Course 3    
        Public Reading (0 semester hours) 0    
Total Hours 14     Total Hours 15    
Total Semester Hours for Graduation = 120

*Cooperative Education Option would require

 

**Notes:  

  • EXP 290EXP 392, or EXP 395 
    • Can be completed one time each, consecutively.
    • For a maximum of twelve (12) semester hours for the three collectively.
  • Any remaining experiences must be in WRT 390.
  • This is a suggested enrollment to meet this outcome above for degree completion.