Summary of Degree Requirements
First Semester & Second Semester
- Residency review
- Creative work in one’s genre (or, during the second semester, in a second genre if approved by the Academic Board)
- A bibliography of approximately 20 works
- Reading commentaries on 12-15 works
- Written midterm and semester assessments
Essay Semester
- Residency review
- Creative work in one’s genre
- An annotated bibliography of approximately 20 works
- A critical essay of 15-20 pages on work by published authors
- Written midterm and semester assessments
Thesis Semester
- Residency review
- Creative work to complete manuscript requirement of the final thesis project
- An annotated bibliography of approximately 20 works
- Preparation of presentation to be given during the final residency
- Preparation of a 15-minute reading of original work to be given during the final residency
- Preparation for the thesis review that takes place during the final residency
- Submission of complete thesis to faculty and program archive
- Written midterm and semester assessments
Fifth Residency
- Graduate Presentation
- Thesis Review
- Graduate Reading
- Submission of the bound thesis, when approved, for the Pacific University Library
