Students in the complete 48 credit hours, including an orientation class, a craft foundations class, and a two-course, 6-credit thesis sequence: IMF65001 and IMF65002, which must be taken sequentially. The remaining coursework is chosen from our MFA curriculum.
Students who choose to declare an emphasis in Fiction, Poetry, Creative Nonfiction, or Young Adult/ Middle Grade must take at least 27 credit hours in the emphasis area, including at least one Foundational course in that genre, and their final Thesis must focus primarily on that genre.
During their first eight-week term, students should sign up for IMF50000 Lindenways, which serves as an orientation to our program. It is also highly recommended—though not required—that students enroll in their first foundations course in the first eight-week term (or, if they plan to only take one course at a time, their second eight-week term). However, students do not have to take a foundations course before enrolling in other courses.
The final course requirement for all students is the MFA Thesis class sequence.