Creative Writing

A.A. Degree

Writers are integral members of the collaborative teams creating content for print publications, film, television, radio, and new media. Put simply, the story comes first!

The Creative Writing program prepares you for a career in the arts and entertainment industry by providing course work that encourages writing proficiency, creative expression, literary scholarship, and critical thinking.

You will develop your craft as you participate in workshops, conference with faculty mentors, interact with visiting writers, and collaborate with students in other academic disciplines. Extra-curricular activities include The Writer’s Guild and Reader’s Corner. Students also publish TC3’s literary journal, Re-visions.

You may select either the Prose, Poetry, and Drama concentration or the Screenwriting concentration.

Learning Outcomes
Transfer Options
Degree Requirements
Program Chair / Faculty

Learning Outcomes

The program is designed to help students develop writing craft, explore the creative process, develop as literary scholars, develop creative writing portfolios for application to related baccalaureate programs, and/or develop manuscripts for publication or production. The program will enrich students' lives with participation in the arts and help students learn to collaborate with other creative artists to produce content.

Transfer Options

Students develop portfolios for submission to competitive four-year programs in creative writing or dramatic writing for screen and television.

Graduates may consider programs at SUNY Oswego, SUNY Purchase, SUNY Cortland, Binghamton University, Cornell, Ithaca College, NYU, Syracuse University, and USC.

For specific transfer information, contact the Counseling, Career, and Transfer Services office.

Program Requirements

Program requirements by semester are detailed in the Degrees and Certificates (pdf, 1.6MB) section of the TC3 college catalog.

All sections of the current college catalog are available online.

Program Chair / Faculty

Lisa Ford

Program Chair
Professor (English)

B.A., Florida Atlantic University; M.A., Binghamton University. Awarded recognition by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Program — 2001 (Semifinalist) and 2004 (Quarterfinalist).
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