Overview
The Individualized Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Antioch University Midwest (AUM) intends to help students develop robust writing skills and engage in the community of writers and readers. Students will evolve as writers by making literature; examining and interpreting the literature that others have made; and giving and taking feedback in a supportive and challenging environment. Students pursue particular areas of interest through a balance of foundational course work and individualized study.
Creative writing students will focus on one of the following areas of study:
- Fiction
- Creative nonfiction
Your choice of genre will determine your activities and readings in most courses.
Throughout the creative writing curriculum, these threads will be woven:
- Reading closely as a writer, with emphasis on the methods writers use to make literature;
- Developing writing practice, including the twin arts of composition and revision;
- Reflection on the writing process: from the question, “Why I write,” to the artist’s inner process;
- Building a community of writers (peers and mentors);
- Form and content area proficiency and mastery.
Program Outcomes
These outcomes span all the areas of study in the IMA program.
- Social responsibility
- Integration of theory and practice
- “Transdisciplinarity”
- Collaborative practice
- Content area proficiency (first year) and mastery (complete degree)
