Information for:
The Program:
- Fourty-eight credit hours of coursework
- In-state rates (as of fall 2012) = $478.75/credit hour
- Out-of-state rates (as of fall 2012) = $1142.50/credit hour
Courses include:
Forms Courses: All MFA students must take a forms course appropriate to their genre of study in their first semester. In fact, fall semester sections are forms courses are reserved specifically for entering MFA students each year. In later spring semesters, MFA students may take a forms course outside their genre of study. MA in English students also take forms courses in the spring to meet their programs' writing requirements.
Craft Seminars:
All MFA students must take two craft seminars, both appropriate to their genre of study. Students may take additional craft seminars in and out of their genre of study as appropriate.
- ENGH 608 (topics vary by section)
Writing Workshops: All MFA students must take three workshops, two at the 600-level and one at the 700-level, all appropriate to their genre of study. One of the 600-level workshops should be the writing workshop appropriate to your genre of study (ENGH 616-618). The other 600-level workshop can be a repeat with a different instructor or a special topics is writing course (ENGH 619).
- ENGH 616: Nonfiction Writing Workshop
- ENGH 617: Poetry Writing Workshop
- ENGH 618: Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGH 619: Special Topics in Writing
- ENGH 750: Advanced Workshop in Poetry Writing
- ENGH 751: Advanced Workshop in Fiction Writing
- ENGH 752: Advanced Workshop in Nonfiction Writing
Literature Courses (a sampling): All MFA students must take two literature courses. The English department offers several literature courses each semester. Some of these literature courses are taught by MA in English faculty and some are taught by MFA faculty.
- ENGH 513: Advanced Special Topics in English
- ENGH 625: British Medieval
- ENGH 630: Early Modern
- ENGH 650: Seventeenth-Century American
- ENGH 660: Twentieth-Century American
- ENGH 665: Texts and Global Contexts
- ENGH 685: Selected Topics, Movements, and Genres of Literature
- For a complete list of literature courses, go to catalog.gmu.edu. For a complete list of English department courses, available sections, and course descriptions, go to english.gmu.edu/courses.
Independent Studies: (All independent studies (ENGH 798) must be proposed and approved. Students are limited to the number of independent studies they can take during their academic career. Independent studies may be used to meet a literature requirement and elective requirements.
- Read the MFA Advising Sheet for more details
- Read the Independent Study Guidelines
The MFA Student Handbook: (The MFA Handbook is given to all new MFA students at orientation and guides students through the creative writing program.)
The MFA Faculty: