Bachelor of Fine Art in Creative Writing

George Mason University - INTO USA

Highly qualified students in the BFA in Creative Writing program may pursue advanced work leading to graduation with honors in the major. To graduate with honors in the major, students must complete a two-course honors sequence and receive a minimum GPA of 3.50 in all courses counted toward the major and, separately, a minimum GPA of 3.50 in their honors courses. Honors courses may simultaneously satisfy concentration and distribution requirements in the major. The BFA Program combined with Watershed Lit provides you with a unique opportunity to examine the craft of literary art and explore all the ways you can develop skills in demand in the job marketplace. No other program boasts its own significant book festival, an independent press, a daily online poetry anthology, a center for international writers, a project focused on the teaching of writing, and two highly regarded literary journals. Meanwhile, you are learning from and workshopping with working-artists and industry professionals.