Creative Writing Major, MFA

Option Available

Creative Thesis

Campus Code

Knoxville Campus

Admissions Standards/Procedures

• A prospective student may contact the Graduate Admissions Office for application procedures or may review them on the Office of Graduate Admissions website. For additional information, please visit the Graduate Studies in English pages through the Department of English website.
• The Department of English does not accept students in non-degree or provisional status. A student who wishes to enter the department must apply in degree-seeking status for his/her application to receive consideration for admission to any graduate program in English.

Credit Hours Required

Minimum 30 graduate credit hours

Required Courses

• Students must complete 12 credit hours chosen from the following four courses:

• ENGL 580 - Fiction Writing
• ENGL 581 - Colloquium in Poetry Writing
• ENGL 582 - Special Topics in Writing
• ENGL 686 - Studies in Creative Writing

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  Students must complete 12 credit hours chosen from the following courses:

• ENGL 505 - Composition Pedagogy
• ENGL 507 - Applied Criticism: The Rhetoric of Literary Forms
• ENGL 508 - History of the English Language I
• ENGL 509 - History of the English Language II
• ENGL 513 - Readings in Medieval Literature
• ENGL 514 - Readings in Medieval Literature
• ENGL 520 - Readings and Analysis in Selected Areas of 16th- and 17th-Century Prose, Poetry, and Drama
• ENGL 521 - Readings and Analysis in Selected Areas of 16th- and 17th-Century Prose, Poetry, and Drama
• ENGL 531 - Readings in English Literature of the Restoration and 18th-Century
• ENGL 540 - Readings in English Literature of the 19th-Century I
• ENGL 541 - Readings in English Literature of the 19th-Century II
• ENGL 550 - Readings in American Literature
• ENGL 551 - Readings in American Literature
• ENGL 552 - Readings in Black American Literature
• ENGL 560 - Readings in 20th-Century Literature
• ENGL 561 - Readings in 20th-Century Literature
• ENGL 575 - Issues in Second/Foreign Language Rhetoric and Composition
• ENGL 576 - Introduction to Contemporary Criticism
• ENGL 583 - Special Topics in Literature
• ENGL 584 - Topics in Feminist Studies
• ENGL 585 - Issues in Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics
• ENGL 586 - History of Rhetoric
• ENGL 588 - Special Topics in History of Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics
• ENGL 589 - Special Topics in Language
• ENGL 590 - Topics in Critical Theory
• ENGL 591 - Foreign Study
• ENGL 593 - Independent Study
• ENGL 594 - Film History, Form, and Analysis
• ENGL 610 - Studies in Old English Language and Literature
• ENGL 611 - Studies in Beowulf
• ENGL 620 - Studies in Medieval English Literature
• ENGL 621 - Studies in Chaucer
• ENGL 630 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
• ENGL 631 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
• ENGL 640 - Studies in Restoration and 18-Century Literature
• ENGL 641 - Studies in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature
• ENGL 650 - Studies in English Romanticism
• ENGL 651 - Studies in Victorian Literature
• ENGL 652 - Studies in Victorian Literature
• ENGL 660 - Studies in American Literature
• ENGL 661 - Studies in American Literature
• ENGL 662 - Studies in American Literature
• ENGL 670 - Studies in 20th-Century Literature
• ENGL 671 - Studies in 20th-Century Literature
• ENGL 672 - Studies in 20th-Century Literature
• ENGL 680 - Advanced Studies in Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics
• ENGL 682 - Research Methods in Rhetoric, Writing and Linguistics
• ENGL 690 - Special Topics
• ENGL 694 - Studies in Film

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• ENGL 555 - Creative Thesis (6 credit hours)

Non-Course Requirements

• Foreign Language Requirement
  • MFA candidates must demonstrate proficiency in one foreign language. This requirement can be fulfilled in one of the following ways:
    • Completion of a second year of language at college level with a grade of C or better,
    • Completion of French 302 or German 332 with a grade of B or better, or
    • By passing a foreign language examination as administered at the University of Tennessee.
• Final Examination
  • MFA candidates must pass an oral examination, which consists of a public reading from the candidate’s creative thesis, followed by a question-and-answer session open to both the public and the professorial committee.