Bachelors in Creative Writing

Students in the poetry course write in a variety of forms, including the sonnet and blank verse, while students of nonfiction experiment with satire, memoir, etc. The fiction courses cover either realism, which encourages students to make art out of what they know, or imaginary writing (in the tradition of Poe, Borges, and others), which is designed to give students more creative freedom. Caltech's long-running publication for creative writing and art, Totem, is run by students, and it is a venue for publication of creative works produced both inside and outside of these courses.