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DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

The Master of Fine Arts degree is granted by the Warren Wilson College President and Board of Trustees upon recom­mendationof the Academic Board and the Graduate Council.  The student's record must indicate the following:

• Full participation in 5 residency periods

• Successful completion of 4 semester projects, with a minimum accumulation of 60 graduate credit hours

• Work with at least four different faculty supervisors

• Broad reading in literature and contemporary letters, as demonstrated by a bibliography of usually at least 50-60 entries

• The ability to write clear prose, and to articulate cogent response to work by other writers, as demonstrated every semester in brief bibliographical annotations or their approved equivalent

• A substantial analytical essay of intelligence and insight

• A Thesis Manuscript of poetry or fiction of high quality

• An objective assessment of that manuscript by faculty and peers in Thesis Interview

• A graduate class taught to peers during a residency period

• A public reading of his/her work during residency

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