MFA Thesis

This course represents the fourth and culminating step in a program-long process of working toward the completion of a book of poems, essays, short stories, or a novella or memoir. Via the internet, students will develop further the craft of shaping a book-length collection of poems, creative nonfiction, or fiction by working individually with a faculty mentor and collectively with student peers. Though each student will actively work toward the creation of new poems or new narrative segments of nonfiction or fiction writing, and toward the revision of individual works, the primary emphasis of the course will be on developing the student's ability to shape a volume of writing into an aesthetic construct that is at once informed by, and larger than, the sum of its parts.