The Creative Writing Emphasis degree program serves to prepare students for graduate work in fields such as creative writing, literature, composition, English education, communication, journalism, and linguistics. The degree program further serves as an appropriate pre-professional major for a student who plans to seek a higher degree in a field such as law, medicine, ministry, or mental health, especially when combined with a second major or minor pertinent to that field (for example, history, political science, business, biology, philosophy, psychology, etc.).