“创意写作计划”从作家的角度出发，采用全面的方法来研究当代文学，批评和理论，并对创意写作的基本实践进行了严格的培训。在我们的课程中，学生将与知名的诗人和​​散文作家一起努力实现这些目标，创意写作的主要和次要都为大学各部门的跨学科工作提供了充足的机会。该计划致力于跨学科工作和学术上的严谨，并强调教授所有类型的创意写作要素，这说明了该计划的生命力，并解释了为什么芝加哥的创意写作目前是最大的该学院在人文科学方面的倡议。创意写作课程提供有关诗歌，小说和非小说的专题讨论会和研讨会，以及越来越多的翻译专题讨论会。
The Program in Creative Writing takes a comprehensive approach to the study of contemporary literature, criticism, and theory from a writer's perspective, and provides rigorous training in the fundamental practices of creative writing. In our courses, students work with established poets and prose writers towards these pursuits, and both the major and minor in Creative Writing provide ample opportunities for interdisciplinary work across University departments. The program's commitment to interdisciplinary work and academic rigor, coupled with an emphasis on teaching the elements of creative writing that underlie all genres, accounts for the program's vitality and explains why Creative Writing at Chicago is currently the largest initiative in the humanities for the College. The Program in Creative Writing offers workshops and seminars in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, as well as an increasing number of translation workshops. Students who graduate with the bachelor of arts in Creative Writing will both be skilled in writing in a major literary genre and have a theoretically informed understanding of the aesthetic, historical, social, and political context of a range of contemporary writing. Students who are not English Language and Literature or Creative Writing majors may complete a minor in English and Creative Writing.