Residency & Project Period V

Catalog description

During the 10-day Residency Period, the student attends seminars or lectures on topics related to creative writing, literary issues, and the pedagogy of creative writing; takes Arts, Culture, and Society II courses, participates in required writing workshops (fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, young people, literary translation, writing for the screen, playwriting), and attends readings by faculty and guests. In this residency, the student teaches a graduate seminar and presents a literary reading of original creative work. All students are required to attend a minimum of seven learning activities and two community activities in each residency period. Note: If a student is a dual concentration student, the student continues in the program for one extra term, having spent three terms in the primary genre and two terms in the alternative genre.