Creative Writing, Master of Fine Arts

Degree Requirements

 

Required Courses

ENW.5110Foundations in Graduate Creative Writing

3

ENW.5810Advanced Multi-Genre Workshop

3

ENW.5900Thesis Project

3

 

Workshops

ENW.5003Screenwriting Workshop I

3

ENW.5200Summer Writers' Workshop

2

ENW.5210Fiction Workshop

3

ENW.5220Poetry Workshop

3

ENW.5230Creative Nonfiction Workshop

3

ENW.5400Fall Writers' Weekend

1

To complete their degree, MFA students must submit a passing thesis in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, or Screenwriting. Mixed-genre theses are allowed. Prose students are required to submit a thesis of approximately 75-100 pages; poetry theses are 35-60 pages; screenwriting thesis are a script for a feature-length film or a pilot with a detailed series outline.