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Program
Requirements
Creative Writing,
MA
Campus
Location:
Main Campus
Full-time/Part-time
Status
Students are required to complete the degree program through classes offered before and after 4:30 p.m.
General
Program Requirements:
Number of Didactic credits
required beyond the Baccalaureate:
30
Required Courses:
4 workshops, 2 tutorials,
3 graduate literature courses
MA exam in Creative Writing.
Thesis manuscript.
Internship:
False
Language Examination:
False
Culminating
Events:
Culminating Exam
Comprehensive Exam Description - The comprehensive exam is intended to give students an opportunity to write about the historical and formal context of the literary genre in which they practice.Comprehensive Exam Subject - The exam is five hours long and based on an official reading list. The student sits for the exam in a morning and an afternoon session on the same day.Comprehensive Exam Complete - The exam is taken at the start of the spring semester of the second year in the program.Comprehensive Exam Write - The exam is generated collectively by the faculty members of the Graduate Creative Writing Program.Comprehensive Exam Grade - Each exam is graded by two members of the faculty (one from Creative Writing, in the respective genre of the exam, and the other from the Graduate Faculty of English Department). Conflicts will be resolved by the director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program.Comprehensive Exam Pass - The exam is graded High Pass, Pass, Low Pass, Fail. Students pass the exam by writing cogent, well-argued, and stylistically polished responses to the questions posed.Thesis
Thesis 1 - The Master's thesis is intended to be a work of fiction (at least 100 pages) or a work of poetry (at least 50 pages) that reflects an aesthetically and intellectually sophisticated example of the genre in which the student has worked over the course of the program.Thesis 2 - There is no thesis defense.Thesis 3 - Theses are graded exclusively by members of the Graduate Creative Writing Faculty. Two readers must agree that the thesis passes. If there is a conflict, the director of the Graduate Creative Writing Program adjudicates the decision.
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