Eileen Said:

What kind of job can i get with a Masters in Creative Writing?

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You can teach college with a master's degree in the subject or with a master's degree in any subject and 18 hours in the subject you're teaching. This is in fact the minimum requirement to teach in college (no matter how many people tell you that all college instructors have a PhD) and as the minimum you'll be assigned mostly lower level courses. It's usually adjunct (part-time) and not the best classes. Community Colleges are easier to get the job in with a master's.

EXCEPT: if that master's in creative writing is a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing then that is the qualification for full-time tenure track faculty appointment. It's considered equal to the PhD for that subject.

You CAN NOT teach in HS with that degree. You will need additional study in a teacher certification program before you can teach in a HS.

You can teach community level continuing education classes (how to be a writer) with that degree and make a pretty decent amount of money.

See the Chronicle of Higher Education job listings for what is truly required to be a college teacher. That's where the facts are. http://chronicle.com/search/jobs/

These are highly competitive jobs - there are a lot of people out there with an MA or higher in English that want those jobs.

Juan Said:

Are online Masters in Creative Writing reputable?

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I don't think many employers will care whether or not you have a qualification of any kind in creative writing. Your portfolio of work is much more useful to them.

What you *will* benefit from is a structured approach to writing, feedback from people who know what they're doing, and the excuse to write in areas that you'd never bother with usually.

I'd be wary of any claims of reputable courses for creative writing. You'll probably find that the vast majority of lecturers in this area have actually written very little professionally.

By all means do it, but do it for yourself, to hone your craft and meet people. If you're not in love with writing, do something else that people will recognise as a more usual degree.

Edna Said:

For Masters in Creative Writing, between UK and USA; which is better?

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I know what you mean about the UK education issue, but these mainly relate to "colleges" that are not official and are not recognised. If you study at a recognised university http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/AboutUs/… then you can be assured that any qualification you receive is valid and held with a high regard.

A good guide is to look at the league tables produced annually here http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/tabl…

Studying in the UK is also generally cheaper than the US as well - I'm not sure if this is an issue for you or not (usually for most students it is!)

If you are looking worldwide then of course it is course dependant but the UK comes second place to the US (understandably in part because of size and resources) but this gives you a guide to the best 100 uni's worldwide http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/data…

Hope this helps

Jenny Said:

Is getting a Masters Degree in Creative Writing a waste of time?

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The question is, what do you really want to do in life? Why did you choose psychology to get your undergraduate degree? You said you found your degree to be useless, but what type of job were you planning on getting wth just a B.A. in psych? Most people who choose this major plan on at least getting an M.A. or M.S.W and /or Ph.D. in psychology. Obviously this is not what you wanted to do. What are you hoping to gain from getting your M.A. in creative writing?

If you want to become the great american novelist, well you don't really need school for that. You can just start writing. If you want to learn how to write better, then sure, get that degree in creative writing, but a degree will not make you a novelist. So going to school is still a good thing to do because it will test your mettle and stretch your mind and those are always healthy things, in my opinion. If you think it will bring you scads of money in the workplace, yo may need to think again.

A creative writing degree can be applied towards just about any discipline. Some things are simply universal. Every job requires that you have some basic writing skills, so creative writing can help you in that respect.

No matter where you work, unless your parents own the company, you will most likely be starting at the bottom, no matter what degree you have. You don't normally come out of college and get a job paying 50k, not usually anyway.

If you are a good writer, chances are that you are a good speller and editor. You could get a job working at a publishing company. I spent 20 years in publishing, and there was not a stitch of creative writing going on there. We published business directories and it was just about the dry facts of companies & their products so I was always weary about hiring someone who wanted to use their creative writing skills. Be careful about how you plan on marketing yourself to future employers.

Tom Said:

Does having a Masters in Creative Writing help?

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prof has covered the professional side pretty thoroughly, so I'm going to assume you're curious about how much it will help your chances of making a living off your writing alone. Going on to earn your masters' will give you contacts and a chance to hone your portfolio, and the relative prestige of your institution may earn you a second look with some publishers, but it won't guarantee your pieces will be accepted for publication. It's really a degree you pursue out of love and desire to improve your skills, not because it'll help you advance (unless you do plan on going into teaching at the college level).

Sonia Said:

What school have a Masters in Creative Writing that I can earn online?

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As I know, this site has top listing of such college courses online - edu.2kool4u.net

Eddie Said:

looking for a college in kentucky that masters creative writing and phycology?

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What does "that masters in" mean? (A rhetorical question. Please don't add to your question by answering it. Most of us answer, and then we're gone forever, and so willl never see anything you add.)

It's an odd way of saying whatever you're trying to say. Colleges -- even in Kentucky -- don't "master in" anything.

If you mean that the college is so good at something that it's the "master" at it, then that's how you'd say that.

If you mean that the college offers a master's degree in the subject, then that's how you'd say that.

But colleges which "master in" something makes no semantic sense. You're going to need to be better in basic English if you're going to succeed in ANY college, no matter WHERE it is, or at what it is a veritable "master." And if you're looking for master's degree level programs, then you won't have a chance of graduating if you're no better at English than that.

And you should be doing your own research, in any case. By so doing, instead of short-cutting and asking people here to do your work for you, you'll learn a TON of interesting stuff about not only the schools you'll be investigating, but about higher education, generally, that you'll never learn if you ask such questions in places like this.

Giving you a list of ACCREDITED schools in KY which offer psychology programs is easy. There are 11 of them. Here you go:

Appalachian Regional Health Care Internship Training Program
Hazard, KY

Federal Medical Center Internship Training Program
Lexington, KY

Jefferson County Internship Consortium Internship Training Program
Louisville, KY

Spalding University Clinical Psychology (PsyD)
Louisville, KY

University of Kentucky Clinical Psychology
Lexington, KY

University of Kentucky Counseling Psychology
Lexington, KY

University of Kentucky School Psychology
Lexington, KY

University of Louisville Clinical Psychology
Louisville, KY

University of Louisville Counseling Psychology
Louisville, KY

University of Louisville School of Medicine Internship Training Program
Louisville, KY

Veterans Affairs Medical Center Internship Training Program
Lexington, KY

Visit each of their web sites, do your own due diligence, and find out what they offer and whether whatever that is is what you want. Simple as that. That takes care of psychology.

Creative Writing is harder because the database I just used to give you the above list of psychology programs doesn't list "creative writing" as a degree area or search term.

However, this Google search...

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=e…

...should help. Just double-check that any school which interests you is ACCREDITED by an agency approved by the US Department of Education (USDE) and/or the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) by looking-up said school in either or both of their databases.

USDE DATABASE - http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation
CHEA DATABASE - http://www.chea.org/search

If the school in question is not in at least ONE of those two databases (and do look-up the school in the second if it's not in the first), then it is not accredited... no matter WHAT it says or claims on its web site. Only rely on the USDE and/or CHEA databases to determine whether or not a school is accredited. Trust no other source. (There are other reliable sources, but none to which you'd have easy access... so, again, trust no other source.)

Hope that helps!