The Fiction Writing, English, and Journalism departments’ Interdisciplinary Minor in Creative Nonfiction offers students an exciting avenue to improving oral, written, and creative problem-solving skills as well as a means to enhance the development of the work in the arts and media majors at Columbia. The combination of analytical, research, poetic, fictional, and journalistic techniques used to produce creative nonfiction offers a powerful means of communicating more effectively in a wide range of arts and media-related writing. Students who possess strong creative nonfiction skills, along with a major interest in another field, increase their chances of competing successfully in the work world after graduation.

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