Cheapest DL Graduate Cert and MFA in Creative Writing

I have taken several writing courses and the absolute best have been through the University of Iowa Guided Independent Study. The course numbers run something like this: 08W:100. The first three numbers are the department, the last three numbers are course level. Less than 100 is undergrad, 100-199 are graduate open to advanced undergrads, and 200+ are grad student only. They usually offer a good selection of graduate writing courses and at a reasonable cost. The actual instruction is done through the Iowa's Writing Workshop and the teachers just blew me away. No general comments and an B on the top of the paper; This was close line-by-line and in some cases word-by-word criticism and long critiques. My experience was 100% positive and I highly commend them to you for distance graduate courses in writing.

Keith

 

If DETC Is Okay ...

Perelandra College www.perelandra.edu offers an online MA in Creative Writing.

 

This is a great link! Steven Barnes' UCLA Writing Course sounds VERY interesting. Thanks for the find.

 

Regarding Humber College, you need to know that while Humber is a fine school (I take accounting classes there), it is a community college in the Ontario system.

Ontario Community Colleges offer traditional community college programs (as in the US) but recently have been allowed to offer some applied bachelor degrees. Also they are allowed to offer post bachelor diplomas for university graduates that need applied knowledge and skills to become employable. These diplomas are not post graduate in the sense that they are masters level courses.

Best wishes----Jim

 

Jim,

Thanks for your insight regarding Humber College ... my bad.

 

Creative Writing in Canada

Loyalist College, a community college in Canada, offers an online Creative Writing (continuing education) certificate. Although the classes are not graduate credit, they do offer interesting topics in case you are trying to build your portfolio. They offer Mystery Writing, Travel Writing, Children's Writing, Romance Writing and more. I've contacted the register's office and was surprised and elated that they don't charge international fees for their continuing education program and they use Blackboard. Classes run anywhere from $200-400 a piece, which is very comparable to the price of classes charged by university and non-university courses online instutions in the US.

https://www.loyalistbanner.ca/PROD/cewkcrss.P_Heading2?divs_code=WRIT


For graduate courses, I recommend the online Writing classes at WNMU, because of their range of coursework offered (Creative Writing, Creative Non-Fiction, Nature Writing, Writing the Screenplay, Writing Children's Literature, Writing Poetry, Writing Fiction . . etc.) and their price. Out-of -state students can take classes with them at the resident rate (around $500 a class for graduate level work). They don't offer a certificate, but you can graduate with a relatively low priced graduate degree and take all writing courses. That's because all of the writing courses are classified as Writing and English classes. So you can do 18 graduate hours in writing and 18 graduate hours in English but choose all writing and writing workshop classes. You can even transfer 2 graduate writing classes in from other universities.

http://www.wnmu.edu/VirtualCampus/InterdisciplinaryMasters.htm