The Advanced Certificate in Children's Literature The Advanced Certificate is a sixteen credit hour concentration available upon successful application to degree-seeking students who have been admitted to any Stony Brook University graduate program, as well as to non-degree seeking students who meet the requirements outlined by the Graduate School. The Advanced Certificate in Creative Writingĭesigned for working adults who have completed a BA and who are interested in master’s level instruction, the Certificate Program in Creative Writing is distinguished by the fact that it allows students flexibility in choice of courses and genres. The program is offered in two academic semesters, two six-week summer sessions, and a credit-bearing writers conference. The 46 academic credits for the MFA program is divided among required courses that introduce students to the profession and discipline of writing and the skills necessary to teach writing to others advanced writing workshops in a variety of writing genres seminars designed to focus closely on an issue or type of contemporary writing graduate-level literature courses and an MFA thesis intended to be a publishable, book-length work. The MFA in Creative Writing and Literature These distinguished visitors provide creative breadth to the writing program, offering coverage in areas of writing that are essential in contemporary society, in particular fiction, non-fiction, poetry, scriptwriting, and writing for children. Students are free to take workshops in all genres, in the belief that writing outside the lines informs their primary areas of interest.Ĭourses are taught by a full-time core faculty of three, joined by a part-time faculty of distinguished visiting writers whose teaching and lecturing assignments rotate among the fall, spring, and summer sessions. However, the program also extends its emphasis beyond the familiar categories of creative expression to treat all forms of writing as equally relevant to understanding and mastering a world constructed out of words. The Creative Writing and Literature program at Stony Brook Southampton emphasizes creative work in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Accepting the Fall by Meg Harding