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MFA Degree Requirements

Course Number and TitleCredits
Workshops
CW 522 Poetry Writing Workshop
CW 523 Fiction Writing Workshop
CW 524 Creative Nonfiction Writing Workshop
Students are admitted into the program in one genre of concentration. Four workshops must be taken in this declared genre.
12
Required Courses
CW 505 Teaching Seminar
CW 532 Form and Theory of Poetry
CW 533 Form and Theory of Fiction
CW 534 Form and Theory of Creative Nonfiction Writing
Students must take at least one Form and Theory course in their concentration. The class may be repeated twice and counted as an elective.
6
Electives
CW 507 Small Press Production
CW 508 Literary Journal Editing and Publishing
CW 509 (ENGL 509) Book Arts
CW 527 Small Press Production
Students may choose graduate-level courses from any department with approval of the Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program. Recommended are the Departments of English, and Theatre, Film, and Creative Writing. Cross-genre courses in creative writing allowed with the approval of the Director.
24
CW 593 Thesis6
Total48


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