Learning Outcomes

Students graduating from Pepperdine's Creative Writing Program will be able to:

1. Demonstrate a moral, ethical, or spiritual consciousness in their own writing;
2. Apply knowledge of the writer's market and relevant aspects of the professional life of writers to their own writing lives;
3. Think critically and communicate clearly in analyzing each of Pepperdine's primary genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, and screen/television writing;
4. Demonstrate proficiency in writing each of Pepperdine's primary genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, and screen/television writing;
5. Apply revision strategies in their own writing process; and
6. Demonstrate expertise in writing and analysis of at least one of Pepperdine's primary genres of creative writing: poetry, fiction, and/or screen/television writing.