Dear Cohort,
I'll be at Miami Weds but can't be there for the CW meeting. Need more advance notice, I'm afraid--another appt. I'd simply day that we once HAD a CW minor, so popular we had to cancel it, b/c we couldn't staff enough for the extra students. It was simple 226 plus two courses, I think, so easy that anyone could do it. They crowded out our majors. Just so you know the consequences so you can guard against that. As fore all the rest, I'm only semi in the program and I think the current membership should decide the/their futures. I'd be glad to add my perspective but unfortunately not at this meeting. I tried to come when I could this semester. Probably will be on campus and free to be there for next semester...
David
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Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:03 PM
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Subject: cohort meeting
Hi everybody,
i'd like to meet, for the last time this semester, this coming wednesday - usual time (11am-11.45) and usual place (tbc).
We need to discuss:
1. Eric's low-res MFA proposal. 10 mins.
2. the School of Creative Arts low-res MFA proposal. 15 mins.
3. BA curricular revision. 10 mins.
4. a possible minor in CW. 10 minutes.
A little more background on the low-res MFA proposals.
You've all had a chance to read Eric's proposal and it does appear to be making useful headway in its progress towards approval. That's all good. As Eric has indicated we ought to discuss its implications for the cohort when he's back in the flesh in the New Year.
Margaret, Brian, Cathy and myself did meet with Susan Ewing and Jim Lentini a couple of weeks ago. Subsequent to that Susan Ewing and I sat down for three hours and talked through options for an overall frame to which CW could contribute a strong component. Susan and Dean Callaghan and I are meeting on Tuesday to talk tofurkey about the nuts and possible bolts of a CW and SCA dance card. There is a raft of opportunities, all of which will involve discussions of staffing and so on. Margaret, Brian, Cathy and I are planning to draft some courses that could sit within the overlapping bubbles of something like the map from the University of Maine:
http://www.intermediamfa.org/wp/about-us/introduction-2/
IF you change out a few of those categories and make it fit more what we currently and might also like to offer then you begin to see how the structure might take shape. The Maine model is very mid-twentieth century and is headed up by Owen Smith, a big proponent of Fluxus; we can make a map that feels right for us and with overlaps into Music, Sound Art, Video Art, short Film, Graphic Novels, Comic Books, Book Art, Print Works, Writing for Media, Short Fictions, Electronic Literature, Performance Studies, short Plays, Poets Theater, Podcast Fictions, Radio Art . . .
This would in no way be competing with Eric's proposal. In fact the two might be very compatible!
IF you have a brainwave about how to shave 3-6 credit hours off our major please bring them to this meeting. Literature is going to be discussing a move towards 39 credits, possibly 36. IF we are going to retrim our sails it makes sense for us to do so asap . .
FINALLY i would like to write a CW minor. It would only be available to students who do not have another English major - so these would be new students. Possible foci include but are by no means limited to Creative Writing and Media Arts (with a focus on the Book and Publishing and the Screen, including film and games and electronic literature) for example . . . O R Creative Writing : word & image (i don't like this formulation BUT it would allow us to get more workshops for screenwriting, graphic storytelling, photo-text, film-poems, book arts et al into our mix). I'm not attached to any of this and welcome any thoughts at the meeting. Patrick Murphy seems to think that we could just go ahead and write a Minor if we WANT one.
See you on wednesday,
cris
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