{"id":974,"date":"2013-07-24T02:35:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T02:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=974"},"modified":"2017-05-22T21:05:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T21:05:04","slug":"augsburg-college-offers-new-graduate-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2013\/07\/24\/augsburg-college-offers-new-graduate-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg College Offers New Graduate Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MFA<\/p>\n

This Summer, Augsburg College launched its new Master of Fine Arts degree. The MFA offers four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting. A fifth genre, playwriting, will be added in 2014. A national book prize and concentrations in publishing, teaching and translation will also begin that year.<\/p>\n

“An Augsburg MFA leverages our distinguished faculty and the strength of our undergraduate programs while delivering things no other program in Minnesota or the surrounding states offers, including a book prize, a screenwriting track, and low-residency programming for all four of our genres,” said Augsburg College President Paul C. Pribbenow. “The program and its format show the ability of our school to meet marketplace demand and to use technology to increase accessibility and contain costs.”<\/p>\n

The Augsburg MFA includes three 10-day summer residencies, complemented by online coursework as well as individualized mentorship semesters. During the residency, students will participate in daily workshops, readings, and mini-courses focused on literary craft, career skills in teaching, editing, publishing, book arts, advertising, translation, adaptation, and new media.<\/p>\n

Trena Bolden Fields \u201900, is returning to Augsburg to pursue an MFA degree. \u201cI am excited about this program as it gives writers an opportunity to specialize in a genre as well as gain exposure in another genre of their choice,\u201d said Bolden Fields. \u201cI believe the program will give me the academic grounding I need and want as a creative writer. I look forward to connecting with other writers and being able to finish my next book!\u201d<\/p>\n

Learn more on the MFA admissions<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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