The Creative Nonfiction Specialization offers graduate students an opportunity to develop as writers and readers of creative, or literary, nonfiction. The program is innovative in that students can focus as much on reading and theorizing creative nonfiction as they can on writing it. Investigating the art and craft of creative nonfiction as practitioners and theorists, students encounter and engage genres as different as the personal essay, literary journalism, science writing, memoirs, and lyric essays. Recently the genre of creative nonfiction has expanded in exciting ways, and students are given the opportunity to study hybrid forms as well. Theses within the program range from a critical analysis of a work of creative nonfiction to a student’s own creative nonfiction essays or a single long work.
Effective Fall 2012
- Completion of the program of study listed below
- Oral defense of your thesis.
First Year | Credits | |
---|---|---|
E 640C1 | Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay | 2-3 |
Select one from the following: | 2-3 | |
Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay | ||
Nonfiction Workshop | ||
Writing Hypertexts | ||
Select one from the following: | 3 | |
Teaching Writing: Composition and Rhetoric | ||
English elective3 | ||
E 513C | Form and Technique in Modern Literature: Essay | 3 |
Out-of-department course4 | 3 | |
Select two courses from the following:5 | 6 | |
Major Authors: English | ||
Major Authors: American | ||
Major Authors: World | ||
Literature Survey: English | ||
Literature Survey: American | ||
Literature Survey: Comparative | ||
Reading Literature-Recent Theories | ||
Special Topics in Literature: Area Studies | ||
Special Topics in Literature: Genre Studies | ||
Special Topics in Literature: Theory and Technique Studies | ||
Special Topics in Literature: Gender Studies | ||
Crossing Boundaries | ||
Professional Concerns in English | ||
Special Topics in Discourse Studies | ||
Critical Studies in Literature and Culture | ||
Environmental Literature and Criticism | ||
History of Writing | ||
Total Credits | 19-20 | |
Second Year | ||
E 640C1 | Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay | 2-3 |
Select one from the following:1 | 2-3 | |
Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay | ||
Nonfiction Workshop | ||
Writing Hypertexts | ||
Select one of the following: | 2-3 | |
Out-of-department course4 | ||
English elective6 | ||
Internship: Teaching College English | ||
Internship: Composition Supervision/Administration | ||
Internship: Literary Editing | ||
Internship: Teaching ESL, K-12 | ||
Internship: ESL-Adult Learning | ||
Internship: ESL-Supervision/Administration | ||
Internship: Arts Administration in Literature | ||
Internship: Public Education | ||
Internship: Computers and Writing | ||
Internship: Writing/Editing for Specific Purposes | ||
E 6997 | Thesis | 6 |
Total Credits | 12-15 | |
Total Credits | 31-35 |
A minimum of 31 credits are required to complete this program.
1 | Course may be repeated for a maximum of 11 credits. |
2 | Required for all GTAs. |
3 | Choose a 500-600-level English course. |
4 | Choose a relevant course outside department 300-level or above. |
5 | Selection must be approved by advisor. |
6 | Course based on final thesis topic with advisor approval. |
7 | No more than six credits may count toward the degree. |