In addition to meeting the requirements for classified graduate standing, candidates for the M.F.A. in creative writing must complete a 54-unit graduate program, 39 of which must be in courses numbered 600 and above as follows:

Student to select one 24-unit research focus as follows:

A. Fiction

• 18 units of ENGL 750F.
• Six units in another genre of creative writing.
  

B. Poetry

• 18 units of ENGL 750P.
• Six units in another genre of creative writing.
  

An 18-unit literature research component divided as follows:

A. Three units selected from the following:

• ENGL 630Form and Theory of Poetry (3)
• ENGL 631Form and Theory of Fiction (3)
  

B. Nine units in American, British, or comparative literature, or an appropriate modern language literature selected with the approval of the M.F.A. adviser.

C. Six units selected from the following:

• ENGL 700 Seminar: A Major Author or Authors (3)
• ENGL 724 Seminar: Issues in British Literature (3)
• ENGL 725 Seminar: Issues in Literature of theUnited States (3)
• ENGL 726 Seminar: Issues in Comparative Literature (3)
• ENGL 730 Seminar: Perspectives in Critical Analysis (3)
• ENGL 784 Seminar: Creative Non-Fiction (3)
• ENGL 796 Internship (3) OR ENGL 798 Special Study (3) with consent of instructor
• RWS 601A History of Rhetoric I (3)
• RWS 601B History of Rhetoric II (3)
• RWS 602 Modern Rhetoric and Composition Studies (3)
• RWS 640 Research Methods in Rhetoric and Writing Studies (3)
• RWS 744 Seminar in Issues in Rhetorical Theory and Practice (3)

Six units in preparation of the thesis; a book-length creative work.

• ENGL 797 Thesis Research (3)
• ENGL 799A Thesis (3)