作为杜鲁门（Truman）的创意写作专业，您将在一个充满挑战但又令人鼓舞的环境中扩展自己的写作才能，并从基础文学课程中汲取灵感。我们是密苏里州唯一一所提供创意写作艺术学士学位的公立大学。卓越的作家使世界成为缪斯女神。杜鲁门美丽的校园和小班教学与来自不同背景和兴趣的同学产生了深远而有意义的互动。通过潜入文科环境，您将学到深刻的经验，以从“新经验”，“好朋友”以及小镇中的小校园可以为您提供的关注中汲取灵感。您将无法在其他任何地方得到它。
Creative Writing majors gain a strong understanding of how writers read and practice their craft. Students cultivate their abilities to serve as fully-engaged first readers of each other's work, supporting, interrogating, and celebrating individual efforts. They produce original creative work across genres (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, screen writing), exploring a wide range of approaches, challenging habits of both content and form. They practice a wide range of revision strategies across multiple drafts of creative work, to make their work the best it can be, and to cultivate understanding of revision as a crucial part of the writing process. Students learn how to engage with the greater writing world through submitting their work to literary journals and contests, and gain understanding of digital literary citizenship, including how to access and participate in the literary/writing world online. Through attendance at our readings and senior seminar presentations, students cultivate an awareness about how writers present their work, and how they can present themselves to wider audiences outside Truman.