Certificates
The Creative Writing program offers a certificate program designed for students seeking to broaden their knowledge in Latin American and Latinx Creative Studies. This certificate program requires 15-units of coursework for completion and can be pursued in-person or online.
Certificates
Students wishing to continue their studies are eligible to have up to 9 units of the certificate program applied towards the requirements of the MFA in Creative Writing at Mount Saint Mary鈥檚 University.
Students already enrolled in the MFA program can pursue both the MFA Program and a Certificate, making a total of 42 credits minimum. Students can integrate up to 9 certificate credits in the MFA Program and take certificate credits as needed to complete the required 42 credits. Most students will probably take an extra semester of credit, sometimes two, in order to get the combined degree/certificate.
Please note: not all states are authorized for students to enroll in our fully-online programs. Please visit our State Authorization page to determine if you are eligible to pursue our online modality in your state of residency.
Latin American/Latinx Creative Studies Certificate
If you are curious about Latin American and Latinx cultural traditions and creative writing, LALCS is for you. Join a unique, flexible, powerful, and practical graduate certificate focused on Latin America and Latinx cultural contributions before the European arrival, until the present. LALCS is happy to enrich your educational experience or your career in psychology, social services, arts, education, law, teaching, and serves as personal enrichment, to mention just a few.
With a multidisciplinary perspective and a variety of lenses, LALCS offers you the creative writing opportunities to develop your intellectual interests and creative skills while exploring diverse cultures from the Caribbean to Southern, Central, and Northern Latinx-America. LALCS integrates anthropology, history, ethnography, literature, arts, and culture in the class materials that include novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, memoirs, essays, films, documentaries, music, painting, and more. LALCS also gives you the skills to write in different genres that range from poetry, prose, short story, flash fiction, travel writing, to novella, memoir, essay, and personal non-fiction.
LALCS also offers you a faculty with degrees in comparative literature, postmodern fiction, experimental poetry, Latin American and Borderlands History, and Mexican film. Their publications and productions spans novel, short story, poetry, feature writing, screenplays, stage plays, non-fiction, history, ethnography, literary criticism, and translation. In classes, as well as at the MFA program annual conference, they are ready to engage you in conversations to think critically about creative writing, and the literature, history, and culture of the complex Latin America and Latinx regions.
LALCS is the path to be an engaged citizen in the global society we live in. Develop the critical thinking and writing skills to be in dialogue with the rest of the world, and enjoy an enriched career in which you will share expertise and concern with others at home and abroad.