DFA

The DFA is assessed at the end of the degree via a final thesis, which includes an ambitious creative project and a significant essay. It incorporates the MFA into the first two years. 

This programme privileges practice as research and builds a core of creative and critical components through enquiry-based discussions and study, targeted lectures, as well as practice-based seminars. 

In the MFA years, critical engagement with your creative work is undertaken via supervision and complementary workshops; you will engage with the literary, theoretic and cultural landscape of practice and writing via literary and practice-based seminars.  In addition, you will attend literary and practice-based seminars and a practical pedagogy course on teaching creative writing, including designing and teaching your own syllabi to undergraduates.

Exceptional students can progress to the DFA, and will be supported by standard postgraduate research supervision practices, which will lead to the submission of the final DFA Portfolio of work that includes both Creative and a Critical components.