creative writing with no math requirment

paying3tuitions
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:10:26 +0000

Their President was interviewed on National Public Radio recently to describe Bard’s approach to teaching writing. He said great writers are also great readers, and in fact they become great writers by reading more. So, they use their writing class time to read (a lot) and take apart great examples of many different kinds of writing, then send students back to their own time for assignments in order to try out those approaches in their own writing. That is different than having students write on their own and come in to use class time for “peer review” in which students defend and critique each others’ writings. It sounds positive (to me) and his faculty believes it’s more valuable use of college class time than peer review. Hear GOOD stuff instead of hear bad stuff in class… I guess it’s different enough to be a national topic for radio discussion!
They have a gorgeous new performing arts building in Annandale-on-Hudson (not sure I got that town right), which enhances your participation in theater or hearing staged works.
It’s all about original thinkers. My D took a summer creative writing program there while in h.s. which they said was equivalent to their freshman writing course. Lots of good stuff about “thought and word”, you can’t know what you’re thinking until you write it; finding “le mot juste” (the exact right word to express your thought or feeling). Fine professor, encouraging to a writer.
The school is reputed to be full of those who think outside-the-box with intelligence and creativity.