This is an interesting subject--I thought I saw so few CW majors in my classes simply because I taught at a regional, in a gateway program, and I assumed y'all on the main campus had 226 classes crammed full of CW majors. In my current 226, I have 2 CW majors out of 19 students. Integrated Lang. Arts and Middle Childhood Ed. make up the majority, which is the norm for this class, in my experience.
Class rosters for next semester look like this so far:
226: 11 students, 1 CW major
330: 7 students, 5 CW majors (someone please send me some students!)
Is there anything programmatically significant we should take from this statistic? I don't know. For me, it has always meant adjusting my 226 pedagogy so that I'm teaching skills that all students can use outside and beyond CW, regardless of their academic major. I try emphasizing the creative process more than writing craft in 226--creative thinking, critical/creative reading and analysis, etc.--though my writer's brain turns back to craft, anyway.
The other Eric
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Miami University Middletown
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From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tuma, Keith W.
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Subject: Re: major tally
My ENG 330 (Intermediate Poetry Writing) breaks down as follows:
10 ENG CW majors
2 COM pre-majors
1 Music performance
1 Sports Studies
1 Philosophy
1 Journalism
1 BIS (Bachelor of Integrated Studies)
1 Integrated English Language Education
1 Mass Com
1 Major undeclared
On 11/16/10 11:05 AM, "cheekc" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 226 - 2x Middle Childhood Education / 1x Special Education / 3x Integrated
> English Language Arts Education (which basically looks like an athlete
> category now;=))
>
> 283 - 1x Integrated English Language Arts Education
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> the mix is Marketing and Accountancy and Finance and History of Art and
> Architecture and Mass Communication and Zoology and Philosophy and Russian,
> Eat European and Eurasian Studies and all points east and west, north and
> south . . .
>
>
> xx
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>
> cris
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> On Nov 16, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Luongo, Margaret M. Ms. wrote:
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>> cris, do you know how many education majors are in your 226? Usually they
>> make up about one-fourth to half of my 226 sections. Typically, I've had only
>> a handful of creative writing majors in 226--never more than one-fourth.
>>
>> Interesting that so many non-majors are in 283--it's not even a Miami Plan
>> class.
>>
>> Margaret
>>
>> Margaret Luongo
>> Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
>> Associate Professor, Creative Writing
>> Miami University
>> Department of English
>> 356 Bachelor Hall
>> Oxford, OH 45056
>> (513) 529-3237
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>> From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty [[log in to unmask]]
>> On Behalf Of cris cheek [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:44 AM
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>> Subject: major tally
>>
>> HI all,
>>
>> I've just been getting increasingly curious to know how many CW and Lit
>> majors people have in their classes.
>>
>> Out of 28 in my Modern Poetry 283 i have 4 CW majors and 4 Lit majors
>>
>> Out of 24 in 226 i have 3 CW majors and 1 Lit major
>>
>>
>> the BIG presence in my classes is Psychology and Political Science Majors
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>>
>> just wondering how other people's classes are panning out now that the new
>> majors are running
>>
>>
>> cris
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