Our Creative Writing Program builds from a genre survey focusing on process during the freshman year to a product-oriented portfolio development course during sophomore year.  Students work with fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and script as well as monologue and children’s literature.  Beginning junior year, students are able to specialize by taking Genre Focus classes and Creative Writing Seminars on special topics.  These are semester courses to allow a greater variety.  Senior year students are encouraged to take Advanced Genre Focus courses in their favorite genres.  Throughout the program, students take ownership of their writing.  They work with prompts in class in an Assigned Journal but also produce 1500 words each two weeks that is self-generated outside of class.  In their Personal Journals, they also write metacognitively.  Throughout the four years, students are required to read professional models—both as in-class assignments and as independent work with a self-selected text each quarter.  Students participate in small-group critiques and whole-class workshops.