<p>For a student who has a passion for creative writing the “lots of good courses” Dave72 mentions are not a substitute for a creative writing workshop. Those other courses are, of course, valuable and certainly worth exploring. But a student who has selected Oberlin for its creative writing major needs to be able to get into the introductory creative writing workshops in order to have a chance to pursue the major. My daughter said that 35 students showed up for her intro creative writing workshop. The class then accepted 28 students (way too much for a creative writing workshop in my opinion).</p>