Creative Writing
Certificate of Performance English · San Diego City College · 2026-2027 Catalog
CREATIVE WRITING - CERTIFICATE OF PERFORMANCE
Summary
The goals of the creative writing certificate are to encourage creative writing students to learn and grow as writers while providing them with a writing community, to help prepare students for upper division writing programs, and to give students a program of study that will help guide the development of their writing skills.
Award Notes: A Certificate of Performance is a departmental award that does not appear on the student’s transcript. All courses must be completed within the San Diego Community College District. This program is not eligible for federal financial aid in accordance with Federal regulations.
Learning Outcome(s): Students who complete the Creative Writing Program will be able to:
- Apply appropriate research strategies and citation formats.
- Read and comprehend texts, recognize author strategies, purpose, perspective, and argument, and use critical thinking to evaluate a variety of writing.
- Organize ideas and information and express them clearly and effectively in writing for both academic and workplace contexts for different communicative purposes.
- Describe, explain, and analyze multiple perspectives on issues in ways that demonstrate global awareness and appreciation of diversity in its many manifestations.
- Apply strategies both inside and outside the classroom that reflect an understanding of the reading and writing processes in order to become life-long learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens.
Requirements
| Course | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| COURSES REQUIRED FOR THE MAJOR: | 3 | |
| ENGL 249A | Introduction to Creative Writing I | 3 |
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| ENGL 249B | Introduction to Creative Writing II | 3 |
| ENGL 245A | Writing Creative Nonfiction | 3 |
| ENGL 245B | Advanced Creative Nonfiction | 3 |
| ENGL 247A | Writing Seminar - Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 252A | Fundamentals of Fiction Writing | 3 |
| ENGL 252B | Intermediate Fiction Writing | 3 |
| DRAM 108 | Playwriting | 3 |
| FJMP 120 | Introduction to Screenwriting | 3 |
| Select two courses from the following: | 6 | |
| ENGL C1002 | Introduction to Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 210 | American Literature I | 3 |
| ENGL 211 | American Literature II | 3 |
| ENGL 215 | English Literature I: 800-1799 | 3 |
| ENGL 216 | English Literature II: 1800 - Present | 3 |
| ENGL 220 | Masterpieces of World Literature I: 1500 BCE - 1600 CE | 3 |
| ENGL 221 | Masterpieces of World Literature II: 1600 - Present | 3 |
| ENGL 240 | Shakespeare | 3 |
| BLAS 155 | African American Literature | 3 |
| CHIC 135 | Chicana/o Literature | 3 |