Manhattanville's Master of Arts in Writing was developed for writers, would-be writers, teachers and communications specialists. The program is designed to meet the needs of persons who have completed their undergraduate degree and who wish to develop their skills in writing while deepening their knowledge in the humanities. The Writing program prepares students for teaching writing at the post-secondary level, for career advancement in journalism, for professionsl enrichment through creative writing or for work in corporate communication. The Master of Fine Arts in Writing offers a distinguished faculty who balance lives of imaginative engagement in their own creative work with serious attention to that of their students. At the center of the Sarah Lawrence program are successive small writing seminars, combined with bi-weekly individual conferences with workshop teachers which focus on a continuing investigation of craft and subject matter.
Students can focus in on romance, science fiction, children's literature, or mysteries.
English Office of Graduate Admissions,1400 Washington Ave. The English Department at The University of Connecticut, Storrs, offers both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. Small seminars provide a wide range of courses in major authors, periods, genres, literary criticism and theory, children's literature, rhetoric and composition theory, women's literature and creative writing. Interdisciplinary studies are encouraged and students may design special courses with individual professors. The English Department plays a major role in the Medieval Studies Program, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the Connecticut Writing Project.