Core Requirement (6 credits)

• English 550: The Study of Craft: Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction (must be taken first semester in the program)
  Co-requisite for 553, 554, 555, 556, 557
• English 543: Environmental Literature (must be taken first year in the program)

Creative writing workshop requirement = 9 credits

Students may choose workshops from the following:

• English 553: Advanced Imaginative Writing: The Long Project
• English 554: Advanced Imaginative Writing: Fiction
• English 555: Advanced Imaginative Writing: Nonfiction
• English 556: Advanced Imaginative Writing: Poetry
• English 557: Studies in Creative Writing

Each of these courses may be repeated up to a maximum of 12 credits per course, 9 of which are used in the POS. Every genre workshop offers a component on environmental or place-based creative writing.

• Students may choose to substitute one of the study-abroad creative writing courses for one of the genre workshops (currently we offer Ireland, Trinidad and Tabago)

Electives in creative writing = 6 credits

Students may choose from the following:

• English 552: Editing and Production of Literary Journals
• English 557: Studies in Creative Writing
• English 558: Teaching Creative Writing
• English 559: Creative Writing Teaching Internship

Electives in literature = 6 credits

• Electives may be chosen from any of the graduate literature courses in the English Department.

Electives in RPC = 3 credits

• Electives may be chosen from any of the graduate RPC courses in the English Department.

Field work requirement = 3 credits

• English 560: Environmental Field Experience

May be repeated up to a maximum of 6 credits, 3 of which can be used in the POS.

Environmental courses outside the English Department = 15 credits

Students may choose, in consultation with their adviser, from any Iowa State University courses with an environmental focus outside the English Department and which are available for non-major graduate credit.

Examples of environmental courses outside the English Department include, but are not restricted to:

• English 560: Environmental Field Experience
• Anthr 516: Environmental Archaeology
• Anthr 518: Global Culture, Consumption and Modernity
• Anthr 520: Cultural Continuity and Change in the Prairie-Plains
• Art H 582: Art and Architecture of Asia
• Arch 528: Topical Studies in Architecture and Cultures (e.g. Reading-Writing Places,Craft and Crafty Action, and Urbanism
• C R P 584: Community and Regional Planning: Sustainable Communities
• C R P 591: Community and Regional Planning: Environmental Law and Planning
• Env S 334 (same as Phil 334): Environmental Ethics
• Env S 472 (same as Hist 472): American Environmental History
• Env S 384 (same as Relig 384): Religion and Ecology
• Env S 404 (same as Agron 404): Global Change
• Env S 407 (same as NREM 407: Watershed Management
• Env S 460 (same as NREM 460): Controversies in Renewable Resource Management
• Env S 482 (same as Pol S 482): Environmental Politics and Policies
• JL MC 547: Science Communication
• L A 501: Landscape Architecture Theory
• L A 578: Topical Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Ling 500 (same as Anthr 500): Language and Culture
• Psych 488: Cultural Psychology

Independent research = 6 credits (only 6 credits count towards the degree)

• English 699: Thesis (English 599: Creative Component is not an option)