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Creative Writing

MFA Program: The Graduate Program

Creative Writing Student. Students in the M.F.A program must complete 70 hours of graduate-level course work including:
  • 30 hours of graduate creative writing workshops (of which we encourage, but do not require, 5 hours in a genre other than the student's declared major genre);
  • 20 hours of English other than creative writing workshops:
5 of which could be Individual Studies (more than 5 hours of independent studies may--and usually are--taken, but only five may "count" toward the requirements for graduation);

a minimum of 10 hours of 700 or 800-level literature classes in two distinct historical periods;

any other 5-hour graduate-level course offered by the Department of English;
  • 5 hours of a course in literary form (English 871);
  • 5 hours of electives in related areas outside the department of English (e.g., courses in other art forms, such as music or the visual arts, philosophy, history, journalism, or literature as offered by departments other than our own, such as foreign language departments, comparative studies, or theater--or any other relevant course approved by the student's faculty advisor);
  • 10 hours of creative thesis tutorial; and an approved creative thesis, followed by an oral defense.
GTAs will be required to take a 2 credit-hour Pedagogy Practicum that will not count toward the total hours required for the MFA, but will be necessary for their teaching appointment in the Department.

Admission to Creative Writing courses on the 600-level and 700-level is by permission of instructor. Permission to register for Creative Writing Workshops will be granted automatically to all first- and second-year M.F.A. students; when space is available (as it usually is), third-year M.F.A. students will also be granted permission. Graduate students in English or in other fields may take these workshops as well, based on submission of a manuscript in the genre, if space is available.

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