Master of Arts in English, Creative Nonfiction Specialization

Overview
Requirements

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.

Plan of Study Grid
First Year		Credits
E 640C¹	Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay	2-3
Select one from the following:		2-3
E 640C¹	Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay
E 641	Nonfiction Workshop
E 642	Writing Hypertexts
Select one from the following:		3
E 607A²	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
E 505A	Major Authors: English
E 505B	Major Authors: American
E 505C	Major Authors: World
E 506A	Literature Survey: English
E 506B	Literature Survey: American
E 506C	Literature Survey: Comparative
E 615	Reading Literature-Recent Theories
E 630A	Special Topics in Literature: Area Studies
E 630B	Special Topics in Literature: Genre Studies
E 630C	Special Topics in Literature: Theory and Technique Studies
E 630D	Special Topics in Literature: Gender Studies
E 631	Crossing Boundaries
E 632	Professional Concerns in English
E 633	Special Topics in Discourse Studies
E 635	Critical Studies in Literature and Culture
E 636	Environmental Literature and Criticism
E 637	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
E 640C¹	Graduate Writing Workshop: Essay
E 641	Nonfiction Workshop
E 642	Writing Hypertexts
Select one of the following:		2-3
Out-of-department course⁴
English elective⁶
E 687A	Internship: Teaching College English
E 687B	Internship: Composition Supervision/Administration
E 687C	Internship: Literary Editing
E 687E	Internship: Teaching ESL, K-12
E 687H	Internship: ESL-Adult Learning
E 687I	Internship: ESL-Supervision/Administration
E 687J	Internship: Arts Administration in Literature
E 687K	Internship: Public Education
E 687L	Internship: Computers and Writing
E 687M	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.