26:200:550,551,552,553
M.F.A. Fiction Workshop I-IV (5,5,5,5)
Regular submission, discussion, and analysis of student work in one or more fictional modes (short story, novella, novel), with examination of relevant readings illustrating plot, setting, dialogue, narrative, point of view, language, style, and characterization. Teachers and students work together to create an atmosphere in which all are encouraged to overcome the limitations and build upon the achievements of their previous work. Participants may bring in a new piece of fiction each week or may submit on a stated rotational basis. Writing faculty mentors go over the work in greater detail in regular conferences as requested by the students.
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26:200:554,555,556,557
M.F.A. Poetry Workshop I-IV (5,5,5,5)
Weekly meetings held in which M.F.A. poets gather to discuss each other's new poems. Each poet is likely to be encouraged, inspired, and challenged by the example of peer poets and the instruction writing faculty to write poems which are increasingly deeper, truer, and stronger. Teachers and students work together to create an atmosphere in which all are encouraged to overcome the limitations and build upon the achievements of their previous work. Participants may bring in a new poem or poems each week or may submit on a stated rotational basis. Writing faculty mentors go over the work in greater detail in regular conferences as requested by the students.
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26:200:558,559,560,561
M.F.A. Nonfiction Workshop I-IV (5,5,5,5)
Regular submission, discussion, and analysis of student work in one or more nonfiction modes (historical nonfiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essay), with examination of relevant readings illustrating research and investigation of topics, setting, narrative, point of view, language, style, and characterization. Teachers and students work together to create an atmosphere in which all are encouraged to overcome the limitations and build upon the achievements of their previous work. Participants may bring in a new piece of nonfiction each week or may submit on a stated rotational basis. Writing faculty mentors go over the work in greater detail in regular conferences as requested by the students.
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26:200:562
M.F.A. Craft of Poetry (3)
This course is concerned with the discussion and analysis of poems and poetics in a range of modes and styles. Relevant readings in poetry will be discussed and examined in order to disclose the technical choices confronted by their authors. Students will study a range of voices and themes and will discuss poetry as poets concerned with the developing canon of contemporary works.
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26:200:563,569
M.F.A. Craft of Fiction (3,3)
Discussion and analysis of fiction in a range of modes and styles. Relevant readings in fiction will be discussed and examined in order to disclose the technical choices confronted by their authors. Students will study theme, voice, characterization, the relation of author to text, the structure of narrative forms, point of view, and contextual relationships in fiction.
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26:200:564
M.F.A. Craft of Nonfiction (3)
Discussion and analysis of nonfiction in a range of modes (historical nonfiction, creative nonfiction, memoir, personal essay). Relevant readings in nonfiction will be discussed and examined in order to disclose the technical choices confronted by nonfiction authors. Students will study theme, formulation, choice of subject and research methods, the relation of author to text, the structure of narrative forms, point of view, and the relation of fact and truth within nonfiction works.
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26:200:565
M.F.A. Thesis Independent Study (3)
Gives students 3 credits for successful independent work on their M.F.A. book-length theses in their genre of specialization. Students will set and meet their own goals outside of the workshop setting. They will meet with instructors/advisers as agreed to discuss their progress and will turn in completed pages at the midterm and at the end of the thesis independent study semester.
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26:200:566
M.F.A. Thesis in Conference (4)
Gives students 4 credits for intensive one-on-one editorial meetings and discussions with writing faculty advisers/mentors as they complete their thesis in fiction, poetry, or nonfiction in the last semester of their matriculation.
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26:200:567,568
Writers at Newark I and II: Contemporary American Literature (3,3)
A course thematically focused on the works of writers featured each semester during the Writers at Newark Reading Series. M.F.A. students read/discuss the texts of invited authors and then attend the readings, once a month, in which two writers of national reputation read their work and converse with the audience. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction genres are represented. Race, gender, and the search for meaning and connection through language in a multicultural society are represented in a range of contemporary American voices. This course offers M.F.A. students the opportunity to study work of literary and cultural merit before hearing the authors read from their work; students will then be free to converse with authors at the Q&A following the readings.
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26:200:800
Matriculation Continued (1)
Prerequisite: Permission of the department.
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