Department of English

Registration Guidelines

The Nonfiction Writing program like other concentrations has guidelines that must be followed to complete the track.

Fall 2025 Nonfiction Writing Program Courses

This is a provisional list of courses. A final list will be available before pre-registration.

*Denotes new course

Introductory (no prerequisites)

  • ENGL0900 Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay
  • ENGL0930 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

Intermediate (no prerequisites)

  • ENGL 1030M, Morning Pages (Rush)*
  • ENGL 1050A, Narrative (Hardy)
  • ENGL 1050F, Line Work: Experiments in Short-Form Writing (Stewart)
  • ENGL 1050G, Journalism Practicum (Lake)
  • ENGL 1050O, Writing the Asian American Experience (Talusan)

Advanced

  • ENGL 1140A, Intellectual Pleasures: Reading/Wrirting the Literary Text (Stanley)
  • ENGL 1160P, Writing Climate, Writing Community (Schapira)
  • ENGL 1180I, Writing Medical Narrative (Schapira)
  • ENGL 1190Z, Healthcare Journalism (Lake)
  • ENGL 1190M, The Teaching and Practice of Writing: Writing Fellows Program (Morton-Aiken)
  • ENGL 1190Y Editing as Revision (Hipchen)
  • ENGL 1191B, Fugitive Letters: The Prison Notebooks (Jackson)

Spring 2026 Nonfiction Writing Program Courses

This is a provisional list of courses. A final list will be available before pre-registration.

*Denotes new course

Introductory (no prerequisites)

  • ENGL0900 Critical Reading and Writing I: The Academic Essay
  • ENGL0930 Introduction to Creative Nonfiction

Intermediate (no prerequisites)

  • ENGL 1030L, Wriring at Three Miles an Hour (Stanley)*
  • ENGL 1050H, Writing for Journalism (Lake)
  • ENGL 1050V, Writing Wonder, Joy, and Awe (Talusan)
  • ENGL 1050Z, Audio/Video Storytelling (Lake)

Advanced

  • ENGL 1180P, Further Adventures in Creative Writing (Hardy)
  • ENGL 1181D, Brown University Writers (Readey)*
  • ENGL 1190X, Nonfiction Now (Rush/Talusan)
  • ENGL 1190Z, The Art of Craft (Ward)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The Nonfiction Writing Honors Program is intended for students who have been highly successful in their English concentration work.