The Creative Writing Option
The The Masters of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) Creative Writing option is intended for students who plan to do a creative writing thesis project in fiction, poetry, or creative nonfiction. Unlike MFA programs at other institutions that offer more strictly professionally oriented training in writing, students at Chicago are encouraged to to develop their writing skills in the context of interdisciplinary humanistic study. Students may wish to do so in the course of a year of intensive study of literature, or, perhaps, philosophy, music, or art history.