Current and Upcoming Online MFA Courses
The online MFA program has begun offering three courses per semester, making it possible for students to graduate in three years. Below are additional courses offered by the Online MFA on a periodic basis.
Fall 2009
Professor José de Piérola
CRW 5321: Narrative Theory and Poetics (CRN 15574)
Intermediate Bilingual
Professor Sasha Pimentel Chacón
CRW 5365: Forms and Techniques of Poetry (CRN 16227)
Monolingual English
Monolingual English
Professor Lex Williford
CRW 5372: Advanced Screenwriting (CRN 16231)
Beginning Bilingual
For a more complete list of our Tentative Course Schedule from 2008-2012, please click here.
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Courses offered by the Online MFA on a periodic basis may include:
5366 Advanced Fiction Writing (3-0) Intensive study and practice in the various forms and approaches of fiction writing, including workshop discussion and individual student manuscripts.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
5367 Advanced Poetry Writing (3-0) Intensive study and practice in the various forms and approaches within the writing of poetry, including workshop discussion of individual student poems.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
5368 Variable Topics in Creative Writing (3-0) Genres and forms not normally covered in the MFA curriculum, e.g., the short novel, libretti, the dramatic monologue. Writing consists of both criticism particular to the course focus, and writing representative of the form or genre itself. May be taken once as a workshop course and once as a literature course.
5369 Advanced Playwriting (3-0) Intensive study and practice in the various forms and approaches of playwriting, including workshop discussion of individual student playwriting.
5372 Advanced Screenwriting (3-0) Intensive study and practice in various forms and approaches of screenwriting, including workshop discussion of individual student screenwriting.
5373 Advanced Creative Non-Fiction (3-0) Intensive study and practice in the various forms and approaches of creative non-fiction including workshop discussion of individual student creative non-fiction.
5381 Literary Translation (3-0) Theoretical consideration, reading and practice in various forms and approaches to literary translation, including individual projects.
5382 Studies in Form (3-0) Advanced literary and critical focus on a single author, movement, or period within a single major form, e.g. novel, drama, poetry, essay, screenplay.