Creative Writing, M.F.A.

The program course outline and graduation requirements for this catalog year are listed below.  In addition, a 3.0 cumulative GPA is required for graduation. The department website provides an overview of the program, including admission requirements, faculty biographies, learning outcomes, and careers: https://www.southernct.edu/academics/english/programs. 

PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (48 CREDITS)

Note: six credits of undergraduate courses in the 300- and 400-level (ENG 402 among them) may be applied to the MFA requirements.

Four workshop classes in major genre (12 credits)

For students specializing in Fiction:
ENG 502 – Prose Fiction Writing I
ENG 503A-G –Prose Fiction Writing II (may be repeated up to 6 times, A-G)

For students specializing in Poetry:
ENG 506 –The Writing of Poetry I 
ENG 507A-G – The Writing of Poetry II (may be repeated up to 6 times, A-G)

One workshop class in minor genre (3 Credits)

For students specializing in Fiction:
ENG 402 – Advanced Poetry Writing 
ENG 506 – The Writing of Poetry I 
ENG 507A-G – The Writing of Poetry II (may be repeated up to 6 times, A-G)

For students specializing in Poetry:
ENG 406 - Advanced Fiction Writing 
ENG 502 - Prose Fiction Writing I
ENG 503A-G - Prose Fiction Writing II (may be repeated up to 6 times, A-G)

Five classes in literature or literary theory (15 credits)

ENG 508 – Contemporary Critical Theory
ENG 509 – Contemporary Poetic Theory 
ENG 511 – Love and the Body in Medieval Consciousness 
ENG 512 – Literature of the Anglo-Saxons 
ENG 514 – English Medieval Literature 
ENG 515 – Writing the Novel I 
ENG 516 – Writing the Novel II 
ENG 517 – Research Methods 
ENG 521 – Feminist Theory and Literary Criticism
ENG 522 – Wright, Ellison, and Baldwin
ENG 523 – Contemporary African American Literature 
ENG 524 – The Harlem Renaissance 
ENG 525 – 17th Century Poetry 
ENG 529 – African American Rhetorical Theory 
ENG 531 – Feminist Rhetorical Theory 
ENG 536 – Early Victorians: 1837-1870 
ENG 537 – Later Victorians: 1870-1914
ENG 538 – Victorian Novel 
ENG 540 – Classical Drama
ENG 542 – Shakespeare 
ENG 548 – Modern and Contemporary Drama 
ENG 552 – English Renaissance
ENG 555 – The 18th Century: Age of Satire 
ENG 557 – Romantic Period 
ENG 559 – 20th Century English Literature
ENG 560 – 20th Century American Drama 
ENG 562 – The American Novel Before 1850 
ENG 564 – Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville 
ENG 565 – Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman 
ENG 566 – 20th Century American Poets 
ENG 567 – Mark Twain, Howells, and James 
ENG 568 – American Novel: 1900-1945
ENG 569 – American Novel Since 1945 
ENG 570 – The Epic 
ENG 571 – Myth and the Contemporary Hero
ENG 572 – The Short Story
ENG 576 – Comparative Study of the 19th Century Novel 
ENG 578 – Comparative Study of the 20th Century Novel 
ENG 579 – Comparative Studies of the Essay 
ENG 580 – Chaucer 
ENG 581 – Medieval Women and Literature 
ENG 583 – Arthurian Legend
ENG 584 – Milton 
ENG 586 – Seminar in American Literature
ENG 587 – Seminar in British Literature 
ENG 588 – Seminar in Comparative Literature 
ENG 597 – Graduate Internship in Teaching Writing (may be repeated for credit) 
ENG 600 – Independent Study and Research (subject is literature and/or theory) 

Electives (12 Credits)
Minimum of 6 in the English Department 
(Note: all courses listed above may also satisfy this requirement) 

For students specializing in Fiction:
ENG 504 – The Teaching of Writing 
ENG 505 – Applied English Linguistics 
ENG 506 – The Writing of Poetry I
ENG 507A - ENG 507G – The Writing of Poetry II (may be repeated up to 6 times, A-G)
ENG 510 – History of the English Language 
ENG 518 – Philosophy of Composition 
ENG 519 – Teaching College Writing 
ENG 585 – Special Topics in Composition/Rhetoric 

For students specializing in Poetry:
ENG 502 – Prose Fiction Writing I 
ENG 503A - ENG 503G – Prose Fiction Writing II (may be repeated up to 6 times, A-G)
ENG 504– The Teacher of Writing 
ENG 505– Applied English Linguistics 
ENG 510– History of the English Language
ENG 518– Philosophy of Composition 
ENG 519– Teaching College Writing 
ENG 585 – Special Topics in Composition/Rhetoric 

Capstone (6 Credits)

ENG 590: English Thesis (book-length manuscript of original fiction)