Program Description:

The Master of Fine Arts degree program involves intensive coursework in fiction and non-fiction film production and scholarship. The program requires 135 credit hours of graduate study including a minor cognate, 1st and 2nd Year Portfolios and the completion of a creative thesis.

You are required to maintain a 3.00 average in all coursework and your overall creative and scholastic performance is formally evaluated in three steps.

1st Year Review: You are evaluated at the end of your third quarter of study. At that time, a student will present for review a 1st Year Portfolio and a minimum of one research paper demonstrating graduate level coursework, writing and scholarship. 2nd Year Review: After 1st Year Review and the completion of a second year of full-time study, a student will present for review a 2nd Year Portfolio. The Thesis Defense: After completion of the creative thesis, you must successfully defend your thesis before the thesis committee.

Why you should consider the Ohio University MFA Program: