Major Map for GPCW 3+2 with B.A. in Environment and Sustainability

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How It Works

Overview

These tables reflect what a standard course rotation may look like for a student pursuing the Creative Writing 3+2 program at Western. A student’s individual path may vary somewhat from these projected course rotations, but it is up to the student to meet with their academic advisor to make sure they will complete all the credits they need to graduate within five years.

Fall of Year One
Spring of Year One

ENVS 100	Intro to Environment and Sustainability (Also Gen Ed. Credit)	3
BIOL 130 & 135	Environmental Biology with Lab (Also Gen Ed. Credit)	4
GEN ED	Other General Education course of student’s choosing	3
HWTR 100	First Year Seminar	1
ENG 102	Academic Writing	3
	TOTAL	14

ENVS 200	Writing the Environment	3
PHYS 125	Energy and the Environment (Also Gen Ed. Credit)	3
COM 202	Academic Writing and Inquiry	3
MATH 113	Statistical Thinking	3
GEN ED	Other General Education Course of the student’s choosing	3
	TOTAL	15

Fall of Year Two
Spring of Year Two

ENVS 301	Science of Sustainability and Resilience	3
ENG 205	Introduction to Creative Writing (Also Gen Ed Credit)	3
GEN ED	TWO other General Education Courses of student’s choosing	6
HWTR 398 or HWTR 200	Headwaters Conference OR This is the Headwaters	1
ELECTIVES	One Elective Course	3
	TOTAL	16

ENVS 350	US and Western Environmental Policy	3
ECON 215	Environmental Economics	3
GEN ED	Other General Education Course of student’s choosing	3
Any ONE of following: ENG 230, ENG 232, ENG 237, or ENG 238	Environmental Literature (ENG 230), Borderlands: Race, Class and Gender (ENG 232), Women and Literature (ENG 237), OR Literary Culture of the American West	3
Electives	Other Electives	3
	TOTAL	15

Fall of Year Three
Spring of Year Three

ENVS 390	Environmental Monitoring	4
Any ONE of the following: ENG 300, ENG 301, ENG 305 or COM 306	Creative Writing: Fiction (ENG 300), Creative Writing: Poetry (ENG 301), Environmental Writing (ENG 305), OR Creative Writing: Non-Fiction or Script Writing	3
GEN ED	Two General Education Courses of the student’s choosing	6
ELECTIVES	Elective course of the student’s choosing	3
	TOTAL	16

ENVS 360	Global Environmental Policy or Elective	3
ELECTIVE	Elective course of student’s choosing	3
ELECTIVE	Elective course of student’s choosing	3
ELECTIVE	Elective course of student’s choosing	3
ELECTIVE	Elective course of student’s choosing	3
	TOTAL	15

Summer before Year Four

CRWR 600	Summer Orientation	1
CRWR 681	Introduction to Creative Writing	2
	TOTAL	3

Fall of Year Four
Spring of Year Four

CRWR 685	Craft of Creative Non-Fiction	6
CRWR 686	Genres of Nature Writing	6
ENVS 410	Environmental Ethics	3
	TOTAL	12

CRWR 687	Writing about Nature and Science	6
CRWR 688	Writing about Nature and Society	6
ENVS 400	Applied Sustainability	3
	TOTAL	15

Summer Before Year Five

CRWR 600	Summer Orientation	1
CRWR 682	Nature Writing Now	2
	TOTAL	3

Fall of Year Five
Spring of Year Five

CRWR 680	Writing Place: New Forms and Techniques	6
ONE of the following: CRWR 608, CRWR 609, CRWR 646, CRWR 665, CRWR 614, or CRWR 623	Genre Writing I (CRWR 608), Genre Studies I (CRWR 609), Narrative Poetry (CRWR 646), Screenwriting Genre (CRWR 665), Traditional Publishing I (CRWR 614), OR New Model Publishing I (CRWR 623)	6
CRWR 694	Capstone	1
	TOTAL	13

CRWR 699	Professional Development in Nature Writing	6
CRWR 689	Special Topics in Nature Writing	6
CRWR 694	Capstone	1
	TOTAL	15

Summer After Year Five

CRWR 600	Summer Orientation	1
CRWR 683	Thesis Seminar in Nature Writing	2
CRWR 694	Capstone	1
	TOTAL	4

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Major Map for GPCW 3+2 with B.A. in Environment and Sustainability