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Do you know what summer fiction courses are going to be offered? Thanks. ]]> http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=133 2007-03-02T12:01:07 -05.00 Eugene Chay 3
If someone wanted to do an independent study, what part of the curriculum would that independent study replace? I assume it wouldn't replace either of the two required courses, but could it serve to replace an elective or workshop, or even both?

After this semester, I believe I'll only have one more workshop to do before I'm scheduled to take thesis. I'm having some early thoughts about doing an independent study, but at the same time, I don't want to pass on an opportunity for a workshop.

Would it be possible to do the workshop and then do an independent study before taking the thesis? That would put me above the total number of classes/credits required for graduation. ]]> http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=95 2006-09-29T07:09:37 -05.00 Mark Farrington 22
Here's the reply:

Most of our electives get offered only once every two years, so once a course like Screenwriting is offered, there's virtually no chance it will be offered again at the same campus for at least three or four semesters. We just don't have enough interest overall to fill these courses if we run them too often.

Sentence Power is an exception, because it is so popular and because it draws from all concentrations. However, Sentence Power is Ed Perlman's class; he invented it and he's the only one who teaches it. Since Ed also teaches other courses in the program, there's a limit to how often he can offer Sentence Power. We do try to offer it once every year at each campus, but being offered this spring at Homewood means it probably won't show up on that campus again until the summer of 2008.

The problem we have with offering Writing the Novel Workshop at Homewood has to do with the fact that we must offer one regular fiction workshop every term at Homewood. Thus, Writing the Novel Workshop would have to be a second workshop, and at this point we're afraid the numbers at Homewood won't sustain two workshops in the same semester.

Fiction Workshop is open to students who are writing short stories and it's open to students who are writing novels. But Writing the Novel Workshop is open only to students who are writing novels. If it's our only workshop at Homewood, students who have no interest in writing novels are left with no workshop -- and some may need a workshop that semester in order to graduate. That's been our problem thus far and the reason we've hardly ever been able to offer that workshop at Homewood.

The good news is that the numbers of students taking classes at Homewood is growing, and I do know several students taking classes there who are writing novels. So it's possible that we could offer Writing the Novel as a second workshop next fall or spring. For those who want to take it now, I'm hoping that making the trip to DC might be an option. The last time I taught it in D.C., there were three students who came down from Baltimore, and they all rode together in one car (saving gas and hassle, and sometimes, I guess, getting to continue class discussions all the way home).

Mark ]]> http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=71 2006-09-05T12:55:28 -05.00 Eddie Jeffrey 9
Also, one of the books on that list is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, and it is the Eudora Welty introduction version. I have a copy already, but it lacks the EW intro. Is the EW into necessary? ]]> http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=38 2006-07-28T11:23:12 -05.00 Mary Stojak 14 http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=29 2006-06-11T18:31:28 -05.00 Whitney Poole 3 http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=25 2006-05-20T08:22:16 -05.00 Mark Farrington 15
Homewood
Fiction Techniques Mark Farrington Th 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Fiction Workshop Tristan Davies W 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Novel Form, Style, & Structure William Black T 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Thesis & Publication Melissa Hendricks Joyce/Tim Wendel M 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM

DC
Contemporary American Writers Margaret Meyers
Fiction Techniques Mark Farrington T 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Fiction Workshop William Loizeaux Th 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Fiction Workshop Eleanor Williams T 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Sentence Power: From Craft to Art E. Perlman
Heritage of Fiction II (20th Cent) Margaret Meyers
Thesis & Publication E. Perlman/Tim Wendel

In Spring, I'll be teaching Writing the Novel Workshop and Novel Form, Style, Structure in DC. Sentence Power and Screenwriting will probably be offered in Baltimore, as will Contemporary American Writers. We're not sure who the regular fiction workshop instructors will be on either campus. ]]> http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=12 2006-02-28T11:17:30 -05.00 Jerri Bell 11