Poetics involves language as creative function (writing, poetry, fiction), language as performance, language as image, and language as a tool of thought (philosophy, criticism) as well as the practice of visual arts as a method of composition and articulation. Our work will be to calibrate these various activities, which is to say to find the relationships between poetic, visual and critical thought.
Students are invited to join a learning community of culture workers interested in language and image as mediums of artistic production. This SOS is designed for students who share similar skills and common interests in doing advanced work in creative writing and related forms of art-making that may have grown out of previous academic projects and/or programs. Each student will enter the program with their own project and syllabus; in addition there will be common readings assigned by the faculty. Students will work with faculty throughout the program to design small study groups, collaborative projects, and critique groups that will allow students to support each other's work.
This quarter we will rely on online and remote learning (zoom meetings, both collective and individual) to advance our work and the discourse while students pursue individual research and travel dimensions of their projects, which may potentially be far flung. Faculty will be available to meet with students individually in person during the first two weeks and the last two weeks of the quarter, though these in person meetings are not required.
Students are asked to correspond with faculty about their individual study proposals towards the end of the Winter 2024 quarter.
Credit equivalencies will depend on each student's individual projects. Some examples might be : 16 in Creative Writing. Or: 16 Credits in Word and Image. Or: 16 credits in The Fiction of Franz Kafka. And so on.
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writing, poetics, humanities