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For over forty years undergraduate student writers have been receiving degrees in creative writing from Oswego. The poet Lewis Turco established creative writing at Oswego in 1963 and since then the program has grown to encompass 150 majors and minors, five full-time faculty writers, and a host of visiting and adjunct writers. Students in the program may concentrate in poetry, fiction, playwriting, screenwriting, and a variety of nonfiction forms.
Oswego State now has one of the premiere degree-granting undergraduate creative writing programs in the country. The Program in Creative Writing is one of the largest and best staffed undergraduate writing programs in the United States, and it has been recognized by the national organization, Associated Writing Programs. Professional writers offer a major in Creative Writing as a special track in the Department of English and Creative Writing. In consultation with the writers in the program, students choose to focus their work in some combination of genres, including: poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction. Introductory courses in each genre are followed by workshops; these workshops are in turn; followed by senior seminars that focus upon topical problems and specific issues. A workshop in drama, for instance, may be followed by a senior seminar in writing situations comedies.