Graduate Areas of Study: Creative Writing

The Master's in English allows students to concentrate in any one of a number of specializations areas, including Creative Writing.

The following courses are available on the graduate level:

• English 347 Advanced Creative Writing
• English 348 Playwriting
• English 396 The Writing Seminar
• English 447 Creative Writing Seminar

To view the English course catalog descriptions online, please visit the Graduate Catalog.

Degree requirements for the Master's in English (emphasis in creative writing)

• English 401 Introduction to Graduate Studies
• English 402 Introduction to the Composing Process (required for students teaching composition)
• Either ENG 403 (Studies in Poetic Forms and Conventions) or ENG 404 (Studies in Narrative Form and Theory), including one course in the genre in which the student will write the thesis.
• Two or three elective courses, such as hypertiext or visual rhetoric, in literature, language rhetoric, and/or theory, including one course in the genre in which the student will write the thesis.
• One elective in an area related to the thesis offered by departments other than our own, to be approved by the student's advisor.
• Three courses in creative writing (one per semester for full-time students) prior to thesis hours.
• Creative thesis, with critical preface (4 hours)