The total of 48 hours that are required for graduation is broken down as follows:

Required Course Work (30 hours)

Workshops. The program requires that all MFA students take twelve hours of workshops. After twelve hours, you can take workshops to satisfy your elective requirements. Each course (graded Pass/Fail) may be taken as many times as appropriate. The majority of the workshops you take should be in your stated genre. First-year students are required to take a workshop in their genre the first semester.

ENG 666 Creative Writing: Fiction
ENG 666 Creative Writing: Novel
ENG 667 Creative Writing: Poetry
ENG 668 Creative Writing: Drama
ENG 671 Creative Writing: Film and Television Scripts

(Please note that ENG 672, Nonfiction Writing, is not considered for workshop credits.)

Literature. The minimum requirement is twelve hours of any literature course at the graduate level.

Thesis. The minimum requirement is six hours. The maximum allowed is twelve hours. The course numbers are 798 and 799.

Elective Course Work (18 hours)

Students can take other graduate courses offered by the Department of English, including additional course work in literature or workshops. Each semester there are also English department courses available in areas such as nonfiction writing, linguistics, research techniques, teaching and independent study. All of these graduate classes count toward elective credits. Please remember that you must get prior approval from the program director or your advisor to take graduate courses in any other departments.