Jul 05, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Creative Writing Certificate


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Program Description

A Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing is offered through the Master of Arts in Professional Writing Program in the English Department, Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Kennesaw State University. A unique four-course, non-degree program, its mission is to provide instruction and membership in a community of writers to qualified writing students in metro Atlanta and North Georgia who seek intensive creative writing practice but who do not want to matriculate in a graduate degree program.

This Graduate Certificate program allows qualified writers to study in graduate-level writing workshops taught by professional writers on the Kennesaw State University faculty.

 

This program is part of the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences .

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Admission, Enrollment and Graduation Policies

Admission Requirements 

The following are program-specific requirements beyond the general Graduate Admissions  requirements. To be considered for admission to this program, the following application materials must be submitted to the KSU Graduate Admissions Office:

  • A statement of purpose that explains: the genre of concentration; what the student wishes to achieve from the program; any experience the student already has in writing (i.e., workshops or literature classes, reading and writing habits, membership in writers’ organizations, awards, publications, and the like).

  • One copy of representative sample of creative writing in the genre to be studied, not to exceed 25 double-spaced pages.

  • Optional: One to three letters of reference from someone who can evaluate the student’s: creative writing skills commitment to creative writing and academic work.

Graduation Requirements 

Each candidate must petition to graduate at least one semester prior to completion of program requirements. For more information, please view the corresponding section of Academic Policies: 5.0 PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS & GRADUATION .

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Program Course Requirements 

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