Our unique six- and three-week programs offer aspiring, practicing, and experienced creative writers a community in which to create and connect. All interested students are welcome! You do not need to be a Berkeley student to enroll.
Our program offers daily creative writing classes in short fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. You will also have the opportunity to participate in a workshop that teaches you to present your work and listen to and critique the creative writing of others. And, most of all, you will meet and socialize with like-minded...
There are two writing requirements that students must satisfy to graduate: Entry-Level Writing, and Reading & Composition.
In addition to courses that satisfy the Reading & Composition requirement, CWP offers courses that satisfy various other requirements.
Entry-Level Writing
The UC Entry-Level Writing requirement is a University-wide writing requirement. All students entering the University of California as freshmen must demonstrate their command of the English language by fulfilling this requirement. Fulfillment of this requirement is a prerequisite to enrolling in...
An applied linguist, Michelle (Winn) Baptiste has taught in College Writing Programs at UC Berkeley since 2002. She specializes in teaching diverse classes of developing writers. Her passion is supporting students to cultivate their own unique voices -- a repertoire of voices they can access as they write across genres. She enjoys including interviews and other hands-on research in her classes. In her own research to earn her MA in English as a Second Language from University of Hawai’i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa), she observed 64 US naturalization interviews and continues to be engaged in...
