How are the professors? Is it easy to double major? Can you take more workshops than required?
And overall, how are the courses, do you grow a lot as a writer from them?
@jazzz6 There should be a poster (or their parent) who is majoring in that, but from my observations, absolutely. That dept takes its undergraduate instruction and intellectual community VERY seriously. They make the courses fairly intensive in terms of the type of writing you do and the “critique workshops” help and also try to actually get the undergrads excited for the workshops and speaking events held on campus that have to do with the discipline. Emory has a really strong intellectual culture in that field (mainly because of the caliber of the faculty we have in it which attracts a lot of other big name speakers and events to the campus that pertain to creative writing and poetry). The Creating writing dept. is run by Natasha Trethewey (recent US Poet Laureate. I think she actually got it twice) and is home to many rising stars as well (I think Kevin Young is in it too): http://creativewriting.emory.edu/home/
Also, one of my friends was a chemistry and Creative Writing major. There are actually many double majors as far as I know and many students who are so attracted to the dept that they take several classes for interest. To do that at a pre-prof. place like Emory, and not be a health or business relevant dept…you have to be really good.
This plus the insane rare books collection of Emory makes those depts a place to be!