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MFA in Book Art and Creative Writing

Degree Requirements

Master of Fine Arts in Book Art and Creative Writing
(a minimum of 12.5 semester course credits)

BOOK 230 Artists' Books: Conceptual Approaches (1)
BOOK 236 Work in Context: Writing, Book Art, and Public Presentation (1)
BOOK 251 Thesis and Exhibition (1)
BOOK 261 Seminar in Professional Practice (.5)
ENG 218 Listening to Reading (1)
ENG 250 Thesis for the MFA Degree (1)

Graduate-level creative writing concentration courses
(3 semester course credits):

  • ENG 255 Graduate Fiction for Children and Young Adults Workshop (1)
  • ENG 267 Graduate Creative Nonfiction Workshop (1)
  • ENG 268 Graduate Fiction Workshop (1)
  • ENG 269 Graduate Nonfiction Magazine Workshop (1)
  • ENG 270 Graduate Poetry Workshop (1)
  • ENG 285 Prose Revision and Publication for MFA Students in Fiction and Nonfiction (1)

Book art concentration courses
(3 semester course credits):

  • BOOK 217 Visible Language: Typography, Books, and Printing (1)
  • BOOK 220 Bookbinding: Traditional Forms and Modern Variations (1)
  • BOOK 221 Bookbinding: Building the Contemporary Book (1)
  • BOOK 284 The Book in an Edition (1)

Elective (1 semester course credit)
May include craft, literature, or pedagogy courses offered through the English or Ethnic Studies Departments, as well as literature courses offered in English through the modern languages and literatures programs. The elective may be taken at the 100 or 200 level. Students may also take an additional graduate-level creative writing workshop for their elective. If a workshop is taken for the elective, it may be taken outside the genre of concentration, pending availability in those workshops.

Course Sequence

Year one

Fall (3 semester course credits)
  • BOOK 230 Artists' Books: Conceptual Approaches (1)
  • ENG 218 Listening to Reading (1)
  • Book art concentration 1 (1)
Spring (3 semester course credits)
  • Creative writing workshop 1 (1)
  • Book art concentration 2 (1)
  • Elective (1)

Year two

Fall (3 semester course credits)
  • Creative writing workshop 2 (1)
  • Book art concentration 3 (1)
  • BOOK 236 Work in Context: Writing, Book Art, and Public Presentation (1)
Spring (2.5 semester course credits)
  • ENG 250 Thesis for MFA Degree (1)
  • Creative writing workshop 3 (1)
  • BOOK 261 Seminar in Professional Practice (.5)
Nonresident Semester (1)

BOOK 251 Thesis and Exhibition (1)

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