Summer Writing Program

Catalog description

This course provides students with the opportunity for intensive weeklong study with visiting faculty during Week One of the Summer Writing Program. SWP visiting faculty represent an extraordinarily diverse set of writers and thinkers and are known for their commitment to artistic innovation and cultural activism. Workshops are characterized by generative writing prompts, experimental investigations into the writing process itself, and thinking about the relationship of writing and contemporary political ideas and events. Also, as part of the Summer Writing program, students attend readings, performances, lectures, panel discussions, and sessions focused on dharma arts thinking and practice. (600 level courses are offered in odd years)