Student Advice Sheet

UTEP ONLINE MFA STUDENT ADVISING SHEET AND CURRICULUM PLAN M. F. A in Creative Writing Online Curriculum (48 hours)

Instructions: Before advising begins, please save this file as Yourlastname_Firstname_Advising.doc (or .docx), then fill in the appropriate blanks in this advising sheet at the end of each semester:

1. Including all the coursework you have completed by the end of the current semester. 2. Including all the courses you plan to take next semester.1

Fill in this form as completely as you can; then e-mail this advising sheet to______. If you have any questions or problems with getting your holds cleared, please contact my graduate assistant, Sylvia Aguilar [[email protected]] . We will e-mail you when your holds are cleared.

STUDENT NAME: UTEP ID: ADVISOR’S NAME: Daniel Chacón

9 Hours of Form & Theory Courses: Important note to MFA students admitted before Spring 20092 Important note to MFA students admitted after Spring 20093

Course Course Title Instructor Semester CRN Hours Number Year CRW 5321 Narrative Theory and Poetics CRW 5364 Forms and Techniques of Fiction CRW 5365 Forms and Techniques of Poetry

15 hours of Workshop Courses:4

Course Course Title Instructor Semester CRN Hours Number Year CRW 5366 Advanced Fiction Writing Advanced Fiction Writing

1 Toward the end of each spring semester, you may include both summer and fall courses you plan to take, so that we can clear your holds for both terms. 2 Form and Theory courses are not required of students enrolled in the original pre-Spring 2009 curriculum, but we highly recommend that you take these courses to prepare for more advanced coursework by strengthening your background in narrative theory, poetics, forms and techniques. If you prefer to stay with the original pre-Spring 2009 curriculum, don’t fill in the nine hours of Form and Theory courses; simply add an additional nine hours to Workshop, Studies in Form or Variable Topics courses. 3 Form and Theory courses are required under the following conditions: 1. Students must take a minimum of two Form and Theory Courses within their first nine hours of course work. 2. They must finish all three of their Form and Theory courses within their first eighteen hours of coursework. 3. They may take two Form and Theory courses concurrently, with their advisor’s approval. 4. They may take Form and Theory courses concurrently with Workshops, Studies in Form or Variable Topics courses, with their advisor’s approval. 5. After their first 18 hours of course work, students will undergo a first-year review, and faculty will assess the students’ progress and decide whether students may finish their coursework and complete their degrees. 4 No more than three workshops are permitted in each genre. I’ve left blanks for courses so you may sign up for those courses up to three times. Advanced Fiction Writing CRW 5367 Advanced Poetry Writing Advanced Poetry Writing Advanced Poetry Writing CRW Advanced 5369/CRW Playwriting/Screenwriting 5372 Advanced Playwriting/Screenwriting Playwriting/Advanced Screenwriting CRW 5373 Advanced Creative Nonfiction Advanced Creative Nonfiction Advanced Creative Nonfiction

12 Hours of Variable Topics or Studies in Form Courses5  CRW 5368 Variable Topics  CRW 5382 Studies in Form  CRW 5384 The Literary Marketplace

Course Course Title Instructor Semester CRN Hours Number Year

6 Hours of Electives6

Course Course Title Instructor Semester CRN Hours Number Year

6 Hours of Thesis7

Course Course Title Thesis Semester CRN Hours Number Advisor Year CRW 5398 Thesis I (Fall) CRW 5399 Thesis II (Spring)

Total Hours: Each semester, please total all the hours you have completed as of the current semester.

5 You may also take graduate-level English or Spanish Literature courses taken on- or off-campus, with your advisor’s approval. As of October 2008, however, the UT Telecampus offers no graduate online coursework in these genres, and we don’t see any courses being offered in the near future. 6 You may take any graduate-level UTTC course with the instructor and your advisor’s approval. The purpose of these electives is primarily to help you do research in fields relating to your thesis. 7 After completing 24-30 hours of coursework, you should ask a professor to be your thesis advisor. After your thesis advisor has tentatively agreed to work with you, you must then write a three-page prospectus of the project you intend to write for your thesis—a book of poems, stories, screenplays, play scripts, or a novel, for example—and your thesis advisor must approve this prospectus officially before agreeing to work with you on your thesis.