Announcements
- Graduating Spring or Summer 2021?
Completion of L&S Minor Form
Spring 2021 Due: Friday, May 7
Summer 2021 Due: Friday, August 13 - Declaring the Creative Writing Minor
Declaration Form Due: Friday of RRR week the semester before Expected Graduation Term - Summer 2021 Creative Writing Courses
- Fall 2021 Creative Writing Courses
- Due to COVID-19, Spring 2020 P grades earned at any school will be accepted for the minor.
- Due to COVID-19, Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 P grades earned at UC Berkeley only will be accepted for the minor.
"That was the deep fun of the job: to feel within my body that I was pushing out to new areas of feeling, strange landmarks of emotion, tramping upon foreign soil, compounding new relationships of perception, making new and–until that very split second of time!–unheard-of and unfelt effects with words. It had a bouying and tonic impact upon me; my senses would strain to seek for more and more of such relationships; my temperature would rise as I worked. That is writing as I feel it, a kind of significant living."
Richard Wright
The Minor
The Creative Writing Minor Program at the University of California, Berkeley is offered by the Office of Undergraduate and Interdisciplinary Studies in the Division of Undergraduate Studies of the College of Letters and Science. The approved courses students take to satisfy the minor course requirements are offered by over thirty departments on campus. Interested undergraduate students in any major may earn an interdepartmental minor in Creative Writing by completing three approved upper-division creative writing courses and two approved upper-division literature courses from any department that offers them, satisfying the minor requirements, and declaring the minor.
Advising
Laura Demir
Student academic advisor
- 235 Evans Hall
The Student Academic Advisor’s job is to guide students and faculty as they navigate university, college, and program policies. With a long-time commitment to higher education, a master’s degree in career development and a love of learning, Laura enjoys supporting students, faculty and staff in honoring their uniqueness and making the most of their time at Cal.
Get in touch
Administrative Office
235 Evans Hall (currently remote)
Laura Demir
demir@berkeley.edu
UGIS Office
231 Evans Hall (currently remote)