[CW-Grad] Important MFA Course Requirement Info

[Robin Russin]

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Course Requirements

Minimum requirements consist of 40 units of course work (10 courses) and 8 units of master's thesis project (for a total of 48 units). The core curriculum includes the following:

1. A minimum of 4 workshop courses (16 units total) in the student’s chosen genre.

2. Two additional workshops in the student’s chosen genre, or two elective cross-genre workshops (8 units total), with instructor approval.  If a student is unable to obtain instructor approval for enrollment in a graduate-level cross-genre workshop, the requirement also can be met with an upper-division cross-genre workshop taken concurrently with a 292 course with program director approval.

3. Two graduate level seminars (8 units total) from departments other than Theatre and Creative Writing. Seminar subject matter should be relevant to student's thesis project. This requirement can be met with upper-division courses, with instructor approval, as an appropriate 292 course.

4. Two graduate level seminars (8 units total) from Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts.

5. At least 8 units of Thesis project.

The final written project is a full-length play of two or three acts, or screenplay or teleplay. In the areas of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, the final written project is a poetry collection, novel, short story collection, novella, memoir, essay collection or other book-length non-fiction project. Each student is paired with one or two faculty members who serve as the thesis advisor(s). Two faculty readers, in addition to the advisor(s), evaluate the thesis work.

The length of the final project breaks down as follows: Poetry 50 – 100 pages, Fiction 100- 150 pages, Creative Non-fiction 100 – 150 pages, screenplay, teleplay or play 90 – 130 pages.

Normative Time to Degree Main campus: 6 quarters.