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 10-12 works
• Written midterm and semester assessments

Third Semester

• Residency review
• Creative work in one’s genre
• An annotated bibliography of approximately 20 works
• A critical essay 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

• Thesis Review
• Graduate Presentation
• Graduate Reading
• Submission of the bound thesis, when approved, for the Pacific University Library