Columbia University. School of General Studies

The School of General Studies began to formally offer a major in literature-writing for the 1984-1985 academic year. Though the School had offered a creative writing curriculum before this time, this program linked creative writing and literature courses into one cohesive major.

This program offered courses in a wide array of types of writing-- poetry, criticism/reviews, screenwriting, creative non-fiction, science writing, and fiction as well as magazine editing and publishing. The magazine editing and publishing class produced the Quarto, a literary magazine that contained creative work by General Studies students. One of the graduation requirements for a Literature-Writing major was the completion of an independent project-- either of new work created to fulfill the thesis requirement, or a portfolio of the student's writing.

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