English, B.A.: Creative Writing Concentration

English, B.A. Program (120 units)

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Program Description

The university offers the B.A. degree in English with three distinct concentrations: literature, creative writing, and English language and literacies.  The student seeking a degree must observe the general university requirements stated elsewhere in this catalog as well as the specific departmental requirements stated here.

Program Learning Outcomes

Students graduating with a B.A. in English from Cal State East Bay will be able to:

• analyze and interpret literary genres represented by a range of texts;
• write in clear and cogent prose;
• demonstrate knowledge of key English language texts, including multicultural works;
• use critical theory to examine literary texts;
• conduct research relevant to the discipline of English studies and analyze connections among literary works and social issues.

Program Roadmaps

These program roadmaps represent recommended pathways through the program. Please see an advisor to create an education plan that is customized to meet your needs.

	4-Year Freshmen Roadmaps ​British and American Literature Concentration, English, B.A.   Creative Writing Concentration, English, B.A.   English Language and Literacies Concentration, English, B.A.
	2-Year ADT Roadmaps ​British and American Literature Concentration, English, B.A. ADT   Creative Writing Concentration, English, B.A. ADT   English Language and Literacies Concentration, English, B.A. ADT

Career Opportunities

Advertising Copy Writer • Author/Critic • Bookstore Manager • Continuity Writer • Corporate Communications Director • Foreign Service Office • Freelance Journalist/Writer • Greeting Card Editor/Writer • Lawyer • Librarian • Media Specialist • Newspaper Reporter • Public Information Officer • Publication Editor • Publicity Director • Publishing Agent • Radio/TV Agent • Script Writer • Teacher/Professor • Writer

Degree Requirements

• The B.A. degree requires a total of 120 units.
  • The major consists of 52 units (students must complete with a grade point average of 3.0 or better);
  • General Education (GE) & Graduation Requirements (GR) consists of 57 units;
  • Free electives may consist of 11 units (actual number of free elective units may depend on GE/GR units). 

Note: It may be possible to double count units within the graduation requirement. It may also be possible that a course satisfies both a graduation requirement and a major requirement. Students should contact their program advisors for information.

Creative Writing Concentration

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English majors with a concentration in creative writing must complete six (6) additional courses for 24 units as described below:

• One (1) beginning workshop for 4 units, whichever course was not taken in the core curriculum:

• ENGL 205 - Beginning Workshop in Fiction Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1
• ENGL 206 - Beginning Workshop in Poetry Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-C1

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  One (1) intermediate or advanced workshop course for 4 units:

  ENGL 305 Intermediate Workshop in Fiction  

  ENGL 406 Advanced Workshop in Poetry  

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  Take an additional two (2) workshop courses for 8 units:

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  Note: ENGL 305, 405 & 406 may be taken a second time for a total of 8 units for this section only

• ENGL 305 - Intermediate Workshop in Fiction Units: 4
• ENGL 307 - Intermediate Workshop in Creative Nonfiction Units: 4
• ENGL 405 - Advanced Workshop in Fiction Units: 4
• ENGL 406 - Advanced Workshop in Poetry Units: 4

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  Take two elective courses for an additional 8 units: one (1) upper division course in 20th or 21st century literature and one (1) elective, from the following English Course Types:

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  • American/Global Literature
  • American Literature
  • British Literature (except ENGL 309)
  • Foundation (ENGL 204 only)
  • Global Literature (except ENGL 330, 342, 343, 446)
  • Language/Grammar (except ENGL 354, 450, 451)
  • Literary Theory
  • World Literature 

Other Undergraduate Degree Requirements

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In addition to major requirements, every student must also complete the University’s baccalaureate requirements for graduation, which are described in the Undergrad Baccalaureate & Program Requirements  chapter of this catalog. 

Department Courses Listed by Course Type

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Writing, Languages and Literatures Courses

Department of Writing, Languages, and Literatures

Go to information for this department.

Courses

Writing, Languages, and Literatures

• •  MLL 111 - Speaking of Love: Oral Communication in Multicultural Setting
• •  MLL 112 - Writing Horror: Written Communication in Multicultural Setting
• •  MLL 171 - Elementary Korean I: Language & Humanities
• •  MLL 172 - Elementary Korean II: Language & Arts
• •  MLL 211 - Multicultural Cinema
• •  MLL 216 - Asian Horror Films
• •  MLL 225 - Transcultural Franco-Phone Cinema
• •  MLL 334 - Deaf View Image Art (De’VIA) and Deaf Artists
• •  MLL 372 - Korean Folktale and Culture
• •  MLL 398 - Internship
• •  MLL 472 - Modern Korean Short Stories in English Translation
• •  MLL 490 - Independent Study
• •  MLL 497 - Issues in Modern World Languages and Literatures
• •  MLL 498 - Internship

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: American Literature

• •  ENGL 220 - Immigration and Migration in American Literature
• •  ENGL 319 - Moby Dick and Literatures of the Ocean
• •  ENGL 320 - Major Works of American Literature
• •  ENGL 322 - African-American Literature Before 1945
• •  ENGL 323 - African-American Literature After 1945
• •  ENGL 324 - Women’s Literature and Feminist Theory
• •  ENGL 325 - Asian-American Literature
• •  ENGL 421 - 19th-Century American Literature
• •  ENGL 423 - Ethnic American Women’s Literature After 1900
• •  ENGL 425 - American Novel After 1900
• •  ENGL 444 - Short Story

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: American/Global Literature

• •  ENGL 210 - Banned Books and Contested Narratives
• •  ENGL 328 - Latinx Literature
• •  ENGL 343 - Crime Fiction
• •  ENGL 344 - Literatures of Environmental Justice
• •  ENGL 361 - Science Fiction: Speculative Fiction

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: American Sign Language

• •  MLL 131 - Elementary American Sign Language I: Language and Humanities
• •  MLL 132 - Elementary American Sign Language II: Language and Arts
• •  MLL 231 - American Sign Language III: American Sign Language and Deaf Cultures
• •  MLL 232 - American Sign Language IV: American Deaf Sociocultural Issues
• •  MLL 331 - Advanced American Sign Language I
• •  MLL 332 - Advanced American Sign Language II
• •  MLL 333 - American Deaf Culture
• •  MLL 335 - Classifiers in American Sign Language
• •  MLL 431 - Linguistics in American Sign Language
• •  MLL 432 - Sociolinguistics of Black American Sign Language

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: British Literature

• •  ENGL 309 - Major Works of British Literature
• •  ENGL 411 - Early Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 412 - Late Shakespeare
• •  ENGL 415 - 19th-Century British Literature

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Chinese

• •  MLL 161 - Elementary Mandarin Chinese I: Language and Humanities
• •  MLL 162 - Elementary Mandarin Chinese II: Language and Arts
• •  MLL 163 - Intensive Elementary Mandarin Chinese
• •  MLL 261 - Intermediate Mandarin Chinese I: Hanzi Logographic Cultures
• •  MLL 262 - Intermediate Mandarin Chinese II: Chinese American Sociocultural Issues
• •  MLL 362 - Chinese Folktales and Culture
• •  MLL 366 - New Chinese Cinema in English Translation
• •  MLL 462 - Modern Chinese Short Stories in English Translation
• •  MLL 465 - Chinese Wisdom and Ink-wash Animation in English Translation

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Education

• •  ENGL 398 - Internship
• •  ENGL 460 - Seminar in English Education
• •  ENGL 498 - Internship

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Film

• •  ENGL 240 - Introduction to American Film
• •  ENGL 447 - Film Criticism

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Foundation

• •  ENGL 100 - College Writing: Stretch I
• •  ENGL 101 - College Writing: Stretch II
• •  ENGL 102 - Accelerated College Writing
• •  ENGL 103 - College Writing: Stretch I (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
• •  ENGL 104 - College Writing: Stretch II (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
• •  ENGL 105 - College Reading for Fluency
• •  ENGL 106 - Academic Vocabulary Development
• •  ENGL 109 - College Writing Lab
• •  ENGL 200 - College Writing II
• •  ENGL 201 - College Writing II (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
• •  ENGL 204 - Writing About Literature
• •  ENGL 490 - Independent Study

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: French

• •  MLL 121 - Elementary French I: Language and Humanities
• •  MLL 122 - Elementary French II: Language and Arts
• •  MLL 221 - Intermediate French I: Francophone Cultures
• •  MLL 222 - Intermediate French II: Francophone American Sociocultural Issues
• •  MLL 311F - Studies in Modern Languages and Literatures Francophones
• •  MLL 323 - Francophone Culture and Civilization through Cinema
• •  MLL 324 - Francophone Literature in Translation
• •  MLL 326W - Sexuality and Feminism in Francophone Literature and Cinema
• •  MLL 421 - French-English Translation
• •  MLL 422W - LGBTQ Francophone Cinema
• •  MLL 425 - Postcolonial Francophone Rap/Hip-Hop
• •  MLL 428 - French for the Professions
• •  MLL 429 - French for Reading Knowledge

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Global Literature

• •  ENGL 310 - Medieval Literature
• •  ENGL 311 - Dante’s Worlds
• •  ENGL 327 - LGBT Literature and Queer Theory
• •  ENGL 341 - The Gothic
• •  ENGL 342 - Environmental Literature
• •  ENGL 345 - Comics and Graphic Novels
• •  ENGL 430 - Bible as Literature
• •  ENGL 431 - World Mythology
• •  ENGL 436 - Contemporary Global Novel
• •  ENGL 446 - Modern and Contemporary Poetry
• •  ENGL 462 - Children’s Literature before 1900
• •  ENGL 463 - Children’s Literature after 1900

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Graduate

• •  ENGL 600 - Introduction to Graduate Studies
• •  ENGL 602 - Graduate Workshop in Fiction
• •  ENGL 612 - Restoration and 18th-Century British Literature
• •  ENGL 620 - American Literature to 1900
• •  ENGL 621 - African-American Literature
• •  ENGL 623 - Ethnic American Literature
• •  ENGL 630 - Women’s Literature
• •  ENGL 633 - Environmental Literature
• •  ENGL 651 - Theory and Practice of Teaching Oral Skills to Adults
• •  ENGL 652 - Phonology, Morphology and Lexical Semantics
• •  ENGL 653 - Theory and Practice of Teaching Reading to Adults
• •  ENGL 654 - Supervised Tutoring and Teaching
• •  ENGL 655 - Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition
• •  ENGL 656 - Pedagogical Grammar
• •  ENGL 657 - Curriculum Design and Assessment in ESOL for Adult Learners
• •  ENGL 660 - Introduction to Composition Studies Theory and Methods
• •  ENGL 690 - Independent Study
• •  ENGL 691 - University Thesis
• •  ENGL 698 - Internship
• •  ENGL 699 - Departmental Thesis

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Japanese

• •  MLL 151 - Elementary Japanese I: Language and Humanities
• •  MLL 152 - Elementary Japanese II: Language and Arts
• •  MLL 153 - Intensive Elementary Japanese
• •  MLL 251 - Intermediate Japanese I: Kanji Logographic Cultures
• •  MLL 252 - Intermediate Japanese II: Japanese American Sociocultural Issues
• •  MLL 351 - Japan Headline News: A Japanese-English Bilingual Study
• •  MLL 352 - Japanese Folktales and Culture
• •  MLL 358 - Experiencing Japanese Culture in English Translation
• •  MLL 452 - Modern Japanese Short Stories in English Translation
• •  MLL 455 - Japanese Manga and Anime Masterpieces in English Translation

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Language/Grammar

• •  ENGL 350 - Study of Language
• •  ENGL 351 - Modern English Grammar
• •  ENGL 353 - Linguistic History of the English Language
• •  ENGL 355W - Language, Gender, and Social Change
• •  ENGL 450 - Current Theories in Formal Grammar
• •  ENGL 451 - Language in the U.S.A.
• •  ENGL 497 - Topics in the Study of the English Language

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Literary Theory

• •  ENGL 340 - Critical Theory of Literature

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Other

• •  ENGL 346 - Literature and Health Care
• •  ENGL 390 - Occam’s Razor Literary Magazine Intensive
• •  ENGL 441 - Queer Early Modern Literature

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Rhetoric and Composition

• •  ENGL 251 - Grammar for Writers
• •  ENGL 300W - Writing for Inquiry
• •  ENGL 301W - Writing for Inquiry (English for Speakers of Other Languages)
• •  ENGL 302 - Discursive Writing
• •  ENGL 303W - Advanced Expository Writing
• •  ENGL 304 - Introduction to Technical and Professional Writing
• •  ENGL 499 - Senior Seminar

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Spanish

• •  SPAN 141 - Elementary Spanish I: Language and Humanities
• •  SPAN 142 - Elementary Spanish II: Language and Arts
• •  SPAN 146 - Beginning Spanish Language and Culture for Healthcare Professionals
• •  SPAN 241 - Intermediate Spanish I: Hispanophone Cultures
• •  SPAN 242 - Intermediate Spanish II: Hispanophone American Sociocultural Issues
• •  SPAN 246 - Intermediate Spanish for Healthcare Professionals
• •  SPAN 341 - Spanish Conversation
• •  SPAN 343 - Spanish Composition and Syntax
• •  SPAN 344 - Spanish Linguistics and Phonetics
• •  SPAN 345 - Spanish Textual Analysis in a Multicultural Context
• •  SPAN 440 - Latin American Pop Culture: Narratives
• •  SPAN 443 - Food Cultures in the Latinx Communities
• •  SPAN 447 - Latin American Global and Cultural Studies
• •  SPAN 448 - Spanish Global and Cultural Studies
• •  SPAN 449 - Selected Topics in Hispanic Studies

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Spanish-American Literature and Culture

• •  SPAN 441 - Introduction to Spanish American Literature: 1492 to 1900
• •  SPAN 442 - Introduction to Spanish American Literature: 1900 to the Present
• •  SPAN 445 - Cultures of Spanish America

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Spanish Peninsular Literature and Culture

• •  SPAN 444 - Survey Spanish Literature II: 18th Century to Present
• •  SPAN 446 - Cultures of Spain

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: World Literature

• •  ENGL 203 - Introduction to Dramatic Literature
• •  ENGL 312 - Renaissance Humanism

Writing, Languages, and Literatures: Writing Workshop

• •  ENGL 205 - Beginning Workshop in Fiction
• •  ENGL 206 - Beginning Workshop in Poetry
• •  ENGL 305 - Intermediate Workshop in Fiction
• •  ENGL 307 - Intermediate Workshop in Creative Nonfiction
• •  ENGL 308W - Writing Bad Bodies
• •  ENGL 405 - Advanced Workshop in Fiction
• •  ENGL 406 - Advanced Workshop in Poetry