EN - 501 MFA Residency

Credits: 4

This is an immersion course. Students will complete 60 contact hours that include an introduction to MFA, lectures and seminars offered by fiction writers and poets, and intensive writing workshops. Students will be asked to come to the residency having read the works of the visiting writers and teachers. Should this course take place on the campus of DeSales University, it will also include seminars with publishing professionals, field work in publishing, and panel discussions. Should this course take place in Ireland, Scotland or Canada, it will also include visiting writers from those countries as well as two travel immersion seminars.