Course Requirements: 45 credits
- English 501: Literary Theories and Practices
(5 credits)
- 20 credits in creative writing courses, to be taken
from the following:
English 502: Seminar in the Writing of Fiction (repeatable)
English 504: Seminar in the Writing of Poetry (repeatable)
English 505: Seminar in the Writing of Nonfiction (repeatable)
English 506: Seminar in Creative Writing: Multigenre (repeatable)
*English 520: Studies in Poetry (repeatable)
*English 525: Studies in Fiction (repeatable)
*English 535: Studies in Nonfiction (repeatable)
*These courses may be taken as either creative writing or literature credits (depending on the nature of your final project).
- English 690: Thesis Writing (5 credits)
- 15 credits in literature, composition/rhetoric, or critical theory, to be taken from the following:
English 500: Directed Independent Study
English 513 (Teaching Composition) required for Graduate Teaching Assistants
English 509: Internship in Writing, Editing and Production
English 510: Seminar: Topics in Rhetoric
English 515: Studies in Literary and Critical Theory
English 540: Studies in Global Literatures
English 550: Studies in American Literatures
English 560: Studies in British Literature
English 565: Studies in Post-Colonial Literatures
English 570: Topics in Cultural Studies
English 575: Studies in Women’s Literature
English 580: Studies in Film
English 594: Practicum in Teaching
English 598: Research in the Teaching of English
You may also use 520, 525, and 535 (see creative writing courses) for literature credit. Note: A student may, with permission, take up to 10 credits in 400-level courses. You may have only 10 credits TOTAL of 400-level and/or 500 (Independent Study) credits.
Additional requirements:
- Reading knowledge of a foreign language.
- A Creative Writing Graduate Exam, taken at the beginning of the student's second year.
Applicants interested in the Creative Writing
track should send a representative selection of
their writing at the same time they apply for
admission to Western: 10-15 pages of poetry or
10-15 pages of prose.
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