An immersion into the reading and writing of letters, and an examination of correspondence as an environment through which we cultivate relationship with ourselves, 我们是怎么想的, 这个世界. We will read and write epistolary works in a variety of forms: letters, 论文, 故事, 诗, 合作, ekphrasis, 公开信. 我们将探讨 the use of correspondence in strengthening attention and observation, in 开发ing ideas and desires, in creating and archiving memory, and as a form of re搜索. 学生 will also 开发 and maintain their own correspondence practices.

In this class, you will learn the fundamentals of audio reporting and production. We will teach you how to gather and edit exceptional audio, 面试技巧, how to write for broadcast and how to structure and produce compelling news and feature 故事. Through a series of ever more challenging assignments –both individual and group; in class and out --you will gather the expertise to produce an NPR style piece of audio journalism. Along the way, you will learn how to pitch a story and come to understand the ethics of journalism. This will be a hands on workshop with a heavy workload of reporting assignments that we will critique together. A fair amount of class time will be dedicated to individual edit sessions of 故事 you are producing. The final project will be a sound rich 5 to 7 minute piece worthy of broadcast.

The Moving Line provides students with an in-depth exploration of creative practice. Drawing on two disciplines, creative writing and calligraphy, and incorporating practices designed to enhance mindfulness, Professors 简Hilberry and 芭芭拉Bash lead students in exercises that connect them with their own creative resources and energies.

In this course we will 开发/cultivate a relationship with re搜索 as a creative process—as an art—that is essential to creative writing, narrative problem solving, 知识使, and the revelation of truth. 我们将探讨, in reading and through our own writing projects, a range of re搜索 methodologies that move beyond more conventional modes into experimental, 知觉的, 体细胞, affective and improvisational realms, 包括重现, 仪式, 朝圣之旅, 表演, 梦想, among other forms of deep listening and imaginative/intuitive practices. We will consult creative re搜索 by writers/artists such as Diana Khoi Nguyen, 意图在, 唐美菜, 芭芭拉·布朗宁, 蒂娜Campt, 爱丽丝沃克, 和巴努·卡皮尔, 他写, 在她的书《人性》中, “I put my hand on her grave and waited, until I could feel the rhythm, 隐约, 呼吸的.”