Learning Outcomes
- Students will develop and refine their individual writerly voices, produce literary work of a high quality, and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of their own aesthetics, as well as the literary models and cultural sources of those aesthetics.
- Students will demonstrate an advanced comprehension of editing and revision techniques and strategies, which include synthesizing challenges, advice and critiques from professors and fellow M.F.A. students.
- Students will demonstrate at least the early stages of professionalization, which may include preparation to publish creative work, performance of work for an audience, experience in literary editing, exposure to creative writing pedagogy, and/or knowledge of academic and alterative careers for creative writers.
- Students will actively engage in a wider literary culture and community, whether at the local, regional, national, or international level.