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Joint Degree in Creative Writing and African American and African Diaspora Studies launched
MA/MFA in Creative Writing and African American and African Diaspora Studies
Starting 2008, we are proud to offer a joint MA/MFA degree in Creative Writing and African American and African Diaspora Studies (AAADS), the first in the nation.
The four-year degree program is a result of keen interest shown by many of our students in combining their pursuit of imaginative writing with traditional academic scholarship related to the African and African American experience. It allows students to synthesize critical studies of the African diaspora, especially in literature, with creative and original works of poetry and prose. Students admitted to the dual degree would have access to the faculty and resources of a top notch creative writing program and a strong multidisciplinary department. The dual degree is a triumphant realization of the mission of diversity shared by the Creative Writing Program, the Department of AAADS, and Indiana University.
Course requirements and sequence for the Joint MA/MFA Degree
The total number of required credit hours is 68, with 16 of those hours as thesis credits and the Field Study Seminar. At least 52 credit hours of the degree requirements must be completed in residence (48 of the required 52 residential hours have to completed in the MFA program by students entering this dual degree process from creative writing).
Semester One
W611 Writing Fiction I-II (4 hours) or W613 Writing Poetry I-II (4 hours)
W554 Teaching Creative Writing (2 hours)
A500 Introduction to African American and African Diaspora Studies Part I (4 hours)
or A503 Introduction to African American and African Diaspora Studies Part II (3 hours)
Semester Two
W612 Writing Fiction I-II (4 hours) or W614 Writing Poetry I-II (4 hours)
W664 Topics in Current Literature (4 hours) or W680 Theory and Craft of Writing (4 hours)
A580 Recent Black American Writing (3 hours) or L655 American Literature and Culture 1900-1945 (4 hours) or L680 Theory and Craft of Writing (4 hours) or other appropriate 600-level course
Semester Three
W611 Writing Fiction I-II (4 hours) or W613 Writing Poetry (4 hours)
W501 Teaching Composition (2 hours)
A680 Traditions in the African American Novel (3 hours) or A679 Contemporary Black Poetry (3 hours) or English 600-level (4 hours)
Semester Four
W612 or W614 (writing workshops) (4 hours)
A501 Harlem Renaissance (4 hours)
A586 Black Feminist Perspectives (3 hours) or appropriate 500- or 600-level course
Semester Five
C561 African Literary Traditions (4 hours) or substitution in specifically African studies literature course or C691 African American Intellectual Traditions (4 hours) or one of the following pro-seminars: A691 Cultural and Historical Studies in AAADS, A692 Literature in AAADS, A693 Social and Behavioral Sciences in AAADS, or A694 The Arts in AAADS (3 hours)
Semester Six
A690 Core Readings (4 hours) or A691 Cultural and Historical Studies in AAADS (3 hours) or A692 Literature in AAADS (3 hours) or A693 Social and Behavioral Sciences in AAADS (3 hours)
A590 Black Atlantic (4 hours)
Semester Seven
W699 MFA Thesis Hours (4 hours)
A698 Field Study Seminar (4 hours)
Semester Eight
W699 MFA Thesis Hours (4 hours)
A698 Field Study Seminar (4 hours)
For more information, please contact Samrat Upadhyay, Creative Writing Program Director at supadhya@indiana.edu
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