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Sample Schedules
Schedules are adaptable to fit
a student’s needs, especially for Scriptwriting students, whose workshops are
in the spring).
Three
Year Track (students with only an undergraduate degree):^
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Fall (First Year)**
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Spring (First Year)***
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5000-level
workshop
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6000-level
workshop
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6112
(Theories of Comp and Lit)
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Non-Creative
Writing Course*
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Non-Creative
Writing Course
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11
hours
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7
hours
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Fall (Second Year)
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Spring (Second Year)
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6024
(Teaching Creative Writing)
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6000-level
workshop
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Thesis
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Thesis
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6
hours
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6
hours
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Fall (Third Year)
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Spring (Third Year)
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5000-level
workshop (outside genre)
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6000-level
workshop or 6025/26
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Thesis
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Thesis
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6
hours
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6
hours
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Total Hours: 42
Two
Year Track (students with an appropriate MA degree):
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Fall (First Year)
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Spring (First Year)
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5000-level
workshop
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6000-level
workshop
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6112
(Theories of Comp & Lit)
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6025/26
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Thesis
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Thesis
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10
hours
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6-10
hours
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Fall (Second Year)
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Spring (Second Year)
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5000-level
workshop (outside genre)
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6000-level
workshop
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6024
(Teaching Creative Writing)
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Thesis
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Thesis
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10
hours
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6-10
hours
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Total Hours: 36
I m p o r
t a n t I n f o r m a t I o n
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Literature
Courses*
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Workshops
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Non-creative
writing ENGL classes at the 5000 level meet with 4000-level under-graduate
students; 6000-level is for grad students only.
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Creative
Writing classes are MFA students only, unless instructor admits superior
undergraduates or M.A. students to a 5000 workshop.
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Fall
Courses**
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Spring
Courses***
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5012:
Creative Nonfiction
5021
(Poetry Workshop)
5022
(Fiction Workshop)
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5011/6011:
Scriptwriting
6012:
Creative Nonfiction
6021:
Poetry Workshop
6022:
Fiction Workshop
6025
(Poetry and Poetics)
6026
(Prose Forms)
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^Students
on Three Year track take 18 hours course work the first year in order to
qualify to teach courses in their second year: Southern Association of
Colleges and Schools (SACS) accreditation requirement for college level
teaching.
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All
students may elect to take additional courses, should they desire; however,
if on assistantship, you may not take more than 12 hours in any given
semester.
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Most
students take 2-3 graduate workshops in their major writing genre, 1-2
graduate workshops in at least one other genre, Poetry & Poetics or Prose
Forms, and Teaching Creative Writing, for a total of 24 hours in creative
writing. Students take 3 courses (9
hours) in literature or related studies (at least one course must be at the
6000-level).
Students
must also complete a Modern Foreign Language requirement.
Students
on assistantship or teaching fellowship must be enrolled in at least six
hours per semester.
Students
may receive transfer credit for up to two classes (6 hours) but not for
workshop classes in their thesis genre.
See the GCSU catalog for details and eligibility.
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