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Degree Requirements
Summer Writing Program
Two four-week summer semesters (or some combination totaling 16 credits), are completed at Naropa’s Boulder campus.
| WRI 651–654 |
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Summer Writing Program I (8) |
| WRI 751–754 |
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Summer Writing Program II (8) |
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SUBTOTAL 16 |
Writing Workshops: 9 credits (All classes are 3 credits.)
Writing workshops require regular submissions of original work for critique and editing. Courses include reading and online discussion of modes of composition. Workshop participation encourages student peer critique and develops editing skills and an informed vocabulary.
| WRI 600e |
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Literature Seminar: Midnight Angels |
| WRI 637e |
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Practice of Fiction: Characterization/Monologue |
| WRI 639e |
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Practice of Poetry: Great Companions |
| WRI 641e |
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Practice of Fiction: Sculpting Prose |
| WRI 667e |
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Creative Reading and Writing: Inspired by Inspiration |
| WRI 669e |
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Creative Reading and Writing: Collaborations, Crossings and Collisions |
| WRI 688e |
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Literature Seminar: Kerouac's Road |
| WRI 765e |
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Practice of Fiction: Flash Fiction, Make It New |
| WRI 785e |
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Practice of Fiction: Building Blocks |
| WRI 790e |
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Creative Reading and Writing: Investigative Poetics |
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SUBTOTAL 9 |
Literature Courses: 9 credits (All classes are 3 credits.)
Literature seminars focus on the works of particular authors, literary history and culture, as well as contemporary trends in literary theory. They are titled Literature Seminar, Creative Reading and Writing, and Trends in Contemporary Literature. All literature courses require critical papers in standard academic format.
| WRI 632e |
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Literature Seminar: The Feeling Tone |
| WRI 634e |
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Literature Seminar: One’s Own Language |
| WRI 667e |
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Creative Reading and Writing: Inspired by Inspiration |
| WRI 688e |
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Literature Seminar: Kerouac's Road |
| WRI 788e |
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Creative Reading and Writing: The Art of Nonfiction |
| WRI 790e |
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Creative Reading and Writing: Investigative Poetics |
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SUBTOTAL 9 |
Final Manuscript: 6 credits
In their last semester, MFA students submit a final manuscript consisting of a creative manuscript and a critical thesis.
| WRI 880 |
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Final Manuscript |
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SUBTOTAL 6 |
Elective Requirement: 6 credits
Students can choose from the array of more than forty online courses offered by other departments at Naropa University. For those students who can attend class at Naropa, we also offer the following weekend electives, each for 1 credit .These classes can include in-resident undergraduate and graduate students and low-residency graduate students.
| WRI 612W |
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Poetry Practicum |
| WRI 643W |
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Poetry Practicum: Coming Out: From Behind the Podium |
| WRI 729e |
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Book Matters: An Introduction to Publishing |
| WRI 746W |
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Prose Practicum |
| WRI 747W |
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Writer’s Practicum |
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SUBTOTAL 6 |
Contemplative Requirement: 3 credits
| WRI 680e |
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Mind Moving (3) |
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SUBTOTAL 3 |
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TOTAL CREDITS 49 |
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