Develop and hone skills in generating, revising, and editing creative works, which include synthesizing challenges, advice, and critiques from faculty mentors and fellow graduate students, culminating in a major project (creative writing thesis) suitable for publication, exhibition, and/or performance. (PNCA CLO 1)
Articulate students’ aesthetic inclinations as well as the literary models and cultural sources of those aesthetic inclinations. Students articulate these connections in brief critical papers or analyses for their faculty mentor’s commentary, in a polished longer critical essay on methods / materials / forms / process suitable for publication, and the oral defense of their creative writing thesis.(PNCA CLO 1, 2, 3)
Integrate the use of revelatory language with other artistic materials and art mediums. This application can be exhibited in the longer critical essay on methods / materials / forms / process, the creative writing thesis, the creative writing thesis presentation. (PNCA CLO 1, 2, 3, 4)
Comprehend contemporary global social, civic and community issues, connect these issues to their professional practice, and demonstrate personal and professional skills to take meaningful action as a global citizen—this assessed through LRCW thesis work (including the poetics essay) and through an active engagement (giving readings and public presentations, serving on discussion panels, and participating MFA Thesis Group shows) in a community of writers. (PNCA CLO 6, 7)
Willamette University