Major - Fall '07 or later

Revised edition: 6/1/07

Note: These requirements only apply to students entering the Poetry Major in Fall 2007 and after. Students who declared the major before Fall 2007 are not affected by these changes, and will follow the poetry Major Requirements for Fall 2004 through Summer 2007 listed in all editions of the Columbia College Chicago Course Catalogue prior to Fall 2007.

Courses		Credit Hours
Poetry Workshops:
Poetry Workshop: Beginning (52-1500)		3 hours
Poetry Workshop: Intermediate (52-2500)*		6 hours
Poetry Workshop: Advanced (52-3500)*		6 hours
*Two intermediate classes and two advanced classes must be taken. A third advanced class may be elected but does not count toward the major.
Total:		15 hours

Literature courses:
Introduction to Poetry (52-1602)		3 hours
Poetry Literature Electives		9 hours
	One course in the Contemporary era (3 hours)* One course in the Modernist era (3 hours)* One course in pre-Twentieth Century poetry (3 hours)*
	*Click here to see examples of Poetry Literature courses that can be taken to satisfy the Poetry Literature requirement
Literature Electives		6 hours
Total:		18 hours

Craft Seminar*
		3 hours
*Click here to see examples of craft seminars

Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning (52-1900)
		3 hours

Poetics (52-3510)
		3 hours

Thesis Development Seminar (52-3520)
		3 hours

Writing Electives:
Two class from the following list:

Poetry Workshop: Performance (52-2510)		3 hours
Forms of Poetry (52-4530) or Craft Seminar (52-4531)		3 hours
Literary Magazine Editing: Columbia Poetry Review (52-4502)		3 hours
Literary Magazine Production: Columbia Poetry Review (52-4503)		3 hours
Careers in Writing (52-1800)		3 hours
Writing for New Media (52-3801)		3 hours
Reviewing the Arts (52-2816)		4 hours
Writing for Comedy (52-2814)		3 hours
Creative Nonfiction: Journal Writing (52-2832)		3 hours
Creative Nonfiction: Writing Memoir (52-2834)		3 hours
Total:		6-7 hours

TOTAL FOR MAJOR:		51 - 52 hours

Important Changes to Major:

1. All Workshops and Craft Seminars will be 3-credit-hour classes instead of 4-hour classes.
2. Two (2) sections of "Poetry Workshop Intermediate" will be required to graduate instead of one (1).
3. "Creative Nonfiction Workshop: Beginning" will replace "Fiction Writing I" as the creative prose requirement.
4. One Craft Seminar is required. A second Craft Seminar may be taken as an elective.
5. The Writing Electives and Professional Writing Electives will be combined, and students will take two (2) to graduate.
6. The capstone course will be "Thesis Development Seminar," a brand new course in which students complete a chapbook-length series of poems as a final, senior thesis requirement in the major.