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Graduate Creative Writing Program > About the Program
The Program:
- Fourty-eight credit hours of coursework
- In-state rates (as of 2009-2010) = $398/credit hour
- Out-of-state rates (as of 2009-2010) = $987/credit hour
Courses include:
Forms Courses:
Craft Seminars:
- ENGL 608 (topics vary by section)
Writing Workshops:
- ENGL 616: Nonfiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL 617: Poetry Writing Workshop
- ENGL 618: Fiction Writing Workshop
- ENGL 619: Special Topics in Writing
- ENGL 750: Advanced Workshop in Poetry Writing
- ENGL 751: Advanced Workshop in Fiction Writing
- ENGL 752: Advanced Workshop in Nonfiction Writing
Literature Courses: (a sampling of literature courses)
- ENGL 513: Advanced Special Topics in English
- ENGL 625: British Medieval
- ENGL 630: Early Modern
- ENGL 650: Seventeenth-Century American
- ENGL 660: Twentieth-Century American
- ENGL 665: Texts and Global Contexts
- ENGL 685: Selected Topics, Movements, and Genres of Literature
- For a complete list of literature courses, go to catalog.gmu.edu.
Independent Studies: (All independent studies (ENGL 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 Requirement Checklist 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: