This program is available at the following location:

• OSU-Cascades

The School of Writing, Literature, and Film offers the Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing as a Low Residency MFA program on the OSU-Cascades campus in Bend, Oregon.

OSU-Cascades' Low-Residency MFA is a minimum 45 credit, two-year program combining writing workshops with coursework in craft, critical studies, community engagement, and one-on-one mentoring. The program has a particular focus on difference, power, and privilege as well as strong connections to the local environment of central Oregon. The program complements remote coursework with two, intensive 10-day residency sessions per year. Our curriculum builds sustainable writing habits within a context of critical analysis, develops skills needed to support a creative livelihood after graduation, applies the creative-literary arts to outward-facing engagement, and creates an environment for taking imaginative risks.

Major Code: 8100

Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:

• Conduct research or produce some other form of creative work.
• Demonstrate mastery of subject material.
• Conduct scholarly or professional activities in an ethical manner.
• Analyze elements of the creative writing craft.
• Critique the original creative work of self and peers.
• Design public-facing opportunities for the dissemination of the literary arts.
• Integrate DEI competencies in different program settings and outputs.
• Develop professionalization tools.

Major Code: 8100