6000

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A workshop intensive course designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in scriptwriting. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A workshop intensive course designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in creative nonfiction writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A workshop intensive course designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in poetry writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A workshop intensive course designed to prepare the student for completion of a creative thesis and submitting work of publishable quality in fiction writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A course in the various techniques used to teach courses in writing, from expository to advanced workshop writing courses, including a teaching practicum in an appropriate academic or institutional setting. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA Program. A course in the traditions and innovations of poetry and poetics, emphasizing modern and contemporary examples, but also reviewing important historical precedents in poetics. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to MFA program. A course in the traditions and innovations of fiction writing, both the short story and the novel, emphasizing modern and contemporary examples, but also reviewing important historical precedents in prose form and theory. This course is repeatable for credit.

A study of the theories affecting contemporary pedagogical approaches to composition and literary analysis, particularly as they relate to post-secondary applications.

A survey of the research methods and bibliographical tools used in literary study.

An intense study of an author, a work, a genre, a movement, or a theme of special interest. This course is repeatable for credit.

An intense study of the scholarly criticism of selected primary works. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Admission to candidacy for MA in English or MFA in Creative Writing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: Department Chairperson’s approval. An individually designed and planned learning experience involving off-campus field experiences and study in the public sector. This course is repeatable for credit.

Prerequisite: ENGL 6601, either ENGL 6680 or ENGL 6685, and permission of Coordinator of MA in English. Independent study leading to the submission of a thesis under the direction of a major professor in English. This course is repeatable for credit.

A book-length manuscript of publishable quality, usually in one genre (poetry, short fiction, etc.), but potentially open to multi-genre works. * For 6000-level courses marked with an asterisk, the precedent 5000-level workshop is a prerequisite. However, instructors and the MFA program director may override the prerequisite where appropriate. With the instructor’s and program director’s approval, a student may repeat a 6000-level workshop in a single genre. This course is repeatable for credit.