美国创意写作-新东方前途出国

当决定开始了解国际教育或决定留学国外，就会听到不同关于“创意性思维”、“创意写作”的声音。

在美国以及国外其他国家，本科阶段专门开设创意写作课，研究生阶段也开设创意写作硕士。

Creative writing is anything where the purpose is to express thoughts, feelings and emotions rather than to simply convey information.

创造写作是表达思想, 感觉和情感, 并非简单地传递信息。

Creative writing is writing that expresses the writer’s thoughts and feelings in an imaginative, often unique, and poetic way. (http://Sil.org – What is Creative Writing?)

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals. (Don DeLillo)

创意写作主要开设在English Department或College of Arts and Letters学院下面，也有学校是开设在Master of Fine Arts（MFA）下面，具体需要根据大学以及项目课程查看，研究生阶段的concentrations通常如下：

• Fiction（小说）

• Nonfiction（非小说类文学作品）

• Poetry（诗歌）

• Writing for Children and Young Adults（儿童、青少年写作）

申请创意写作专业，非常具有选拔性和竞争力，温馨提醒：托福没有达到100分，雅思没有达到7分的童鞋，慎重选择此专业。

部分大学在申请的时候，必须要求提供GRE成绩，比如：纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿分校；

部分大学可选择是否递交GRE成绩，比如：波士顿大学；

当然，也有大学在GPA低于3.5分的情况下，要求学生递交GRE成绩，GPA3.0的学生，GRE Verbal不低于157分，比如：加州州立大学北岭分校。

Creative Writing专业就读根据大学不同，项目时长分为1年、或2年。波士顿大学授予MFA硕士学位，通过1年（2个或3个学期）完成在Fiction或Poetry方向的学习。波士顿大学主要通过workshops and literature courses的方式学习Creative Writing，8-10个人的小班授课。

2016年，波士顿大学共收到申请700份，最终录取18人。其中，500人申请了Fiction, 录取10人；200人申请了poetry, 录取8人。波士顿大学对于申请人雅思分数的最低要求是7分；托福的Reading section – 21、Listening section – 18、Speaking section – 23、Writing section – 22均是最低要求。

Creative Writing专业在申请时，PS/SOP、Writing Sample、Writing Portfolio尤为重要。

波士顿大学要求：

1.       A writing sample (for poetry, submit 10 poems; for fiction, submit no more than 40 double-spaced pages, stories are preferred)

2.       A personal statement, roughly 2-4 pages in length

纽约州立大学宾汉姆顿分校要求：All applicants should submit a sample of their critical writing (10-20 pages), Those wishing to enter the MA program with a specialization in creative writing should so indicate on the front page of the application and should submit together with a sample of their critical writing a portfolio of their creative work (not more than 50 pages of fiction or 25 pages of verse).

位于曼哈顿第五大道的New School对于WRITING PORTFOLIO要求：Applicants to the graduate Creative Writing Program are required to submit examples of their writing to demonstrate that they have the skills and a sufficient body of quality work to advance to graduate-level study.

• Poetry: Submit 10 pages of poetry.

• Fiction or Nonfiction: Submit up to 20 pages of prose.

• Writing for Children and Young Adults: Submit up to 20 pages of prose or a draft of a book for children or young adults.

Portfolio manuscripts must be typewritten (or printed letter quality) and double-spaced. Your name must appear on the top of each page.

一起来盘点一下美国都有哪些大学开设Creative Writing专业吧：

1. Johns Hopkins University：Master of Arts in Writing

2. Northwestern University：Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

3. University of Notre Dame：Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing

4. The New School：Schools of Public Engagement，Creative Writing Program

5. Binghamton University--SUNY：MA in English with a creative writing concentration

6. Boston University：Creative Writing

7. Adelphi University：Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

8. New York University：Graduate School of Arts and Science，Program in Creative Writing

9. Vanderbilt University：Program in Creative Writing

10. 以上为部分开设院校，全美共315所大学开设Creative Writing硕士，更多信息，请直接联系我。其他还有爱荷华大学和匹兹堡大学