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What you get for your money
First
Year
1. Workshop
Fiction, non-fiction, and poetry workshops normally consist of twelve
students and a distinguished instructor who critiques and guides
their writing. Workshops are held once a week during
the semester from 5.30 p.m until 7.20 p.m. To see what Hunter students
are currently writing, you can go to Your
fellow students and their work.
2. Craft
In the craft seminars, you read literature from a writer's point
of view, study particular aspects of the craft, and then generate
work that strengthens your own skills as a writer of fiction, non-fiction,
or poetry. Poets will explore the ways in which poems achieve their
effects, focusing on prosody and technical devices, the handling
of line and sentence, rhythm, syntax, sonic structures, the inner
architecture of poems, both free verse and "formal,”
and the ways poets "fasten their voice to the page.”
Fiction writers might look at the art of dialogue, the use of light,
color, and point of view. Memoirists might spend their time learning not only
how to write about place and how to structure a narrative, but also
how to do research and conduct interviews, and, importantly,
how to deal with ethical issues in writing about their subjects.
Craft Seminars are held once a week from 5.30 p.m until 7.20 p.m.
They will not clash with your workshop.
3. Literature
In the first year, you take
one literature class each semester. You are free to choose from
any of the graduate courses offered by Hunter's English department. (See the English
Department website for more information about teachers and courses.) This is a time to enrich your own work by going back
to the Greek tragedies, or studying Chaucer or post-colonial literature.
We will be happy to advise you
on the literature courses that will be most rewarding for you.
Both Years
1. The Distinguished Writers Series
Click here to see the world-class writers who have come to read
and talk to our students. In this section, you'll find Toni Morrison,
Michael Ondaatje, Anne Carson, Sharon Olds, Salman Rushdie, and
many, many more. Some of these writers have come to talk to classes,
answer questions, offers insights into their work and lives. Here
again, it's wonderful to be in New York; people do like to come
here to visit us.
2. Advanced Research-Skills Seminar (fiction and non-fiction)
This three-evening seminar teaches MFA students advanced techniques for researching their fiction or non-fiction writing.
Second
Year
1. Workshop
Expect the same as in your first year, although your small group
of twelve will have changed its composition; six students will have
graduated; six new talented writers will have been selected to join
you.
2. Craft
Same as your first year, but, as with your workshop, there will be six new writers in the class.
3. Writing in Conference
You will be paired with a faculty member, who'll will meet with you regularly, one-on-one, to advise
and guide you through the early drafts of your stories, novel, memoir or poetry collection. This work is the first step towards
your thesis.
4. Thesis
As with Writing in Conference, you'll work one-on-one with a faculty member, who'll guide you through completing your thesis. For poetry
students the thesis is a manuscript of 40-60 pages. For fiction and
non-fiction students, it's a manuscript of 75 pages or
more.
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