Getting an English MA and MFA concurrently -- is it feasible? and is it worth it?
I'm wondering if anyone here has gotten both an English MA and an MFA at the same time. I'm interested in both an English MA and a Creative Writing MFA, and I'm trying to determine if it's feasible.
Northwestern's Litowitz program is a combined MA and MFA program that is specifically designed for this, which is appealing to me. It's possible to get both at other universities, but it's something you'd have to coordinate yourself, and I'd like to see if others found the workload reasonable.
I'm also wondering if this path is redundant. It seems that a good chunk of a creative writing MFA curriculum is taking literature courses, so perhaps you get many of the benefits of an English MA in an MFA program. At the same time, though, it seems like you wouldn't have to do that much more work to get the English MA in addition to the MFA.
Thoughts?