The Creative Writing, English, and Communications and Media Innovation departments’ Interdisciplinary Minor in Creative Nonfiction offers students an exciting avenue to improve oral, written, and creative problem-solving skills, as well as a means to develop the work of 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, have the opportunity to increase their chances of competing successfully in the work world after graduation.

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