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Creative Writing Graduate Program
Overview
If language is human culture's distinguishing characteristic, creative writing is its artful practice, rooted in the imagination and developed throughout history by multiple traditions. USF's Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program offers graduate students an intimate learning experience in the art of writing, while taking advantage of San Francisco's position as a dynamic center of literary expression. The two-year program is designed to instruct writers in elements of craft, to ground their creative work in an understanding of literary histories, and to nurture their individual development and vision.
The Creative Writing graduate program offers evening classes in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Workshops and reading-based seminars combine theory with practice, and writing with reading literature. The Graduate Program emphasizes issues in craft not only in the workshops, where student work is the focus, but also in the literary seminars, where the question is not so much how to judge works of literature as how to learn from them about the art of writing. All courses are taught by practicing writers who can help prepare students for entry into the public life of literature, from publishing their own work to teaching writing itself. A range of styles appropriate to each writer is supported, culminating in the completion of a book-length work.
The two-year, 33-unit Program starts in the summer only (late June). Classes
meet on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, from 6:15 p.m. to 9 p.m.
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