Department of Writing, Consciousness, and Creative Inquiry
Welcome
Welcome to Writing, Consciousness, and Creative Inquiry. Our department offers the following two MFA programs:
Mission
Our programs explore the intersection between artist and society, craft and aesthetics, history and contemporary arts and literature, while valuing all forms of art and all varieties of human experience.
Two years of full-time coursework (48 units) can be accomplished entirely through six intensive weekends per semester, supplemented by (limited) online conferences and opportunities to work one-on-one with faculty mentors. Each degree culminates in a substantial artistic project or book.
Overview
Interdisciplinary and Creative Inquiry
We welcome artists of all disciplines (literary, visual, performing, media, and interarts), value the interdisciplinary inquiry inherent within all art-making, and make use of creative modes of inquiry in each program so students grow personally, professionally, and artistically.
Diversity and Personal Goals
Our programs have a rich engagement with diversity of all kinds: a wide-ranging aesthetic, based on a respect for all forms of art and all human experience. Each has a strong curricular structure and, at the same time, a flexibility that allows students to pursue their own priorities.
Our classrooms offer generosity, rigor, and openness, empowering our writers and artists and also challenging them to reflect deeply.
Practice and Profession
We offer individual and group feedback, arts theory and practice, studies in consciousness and creative inquiry, and professional development courses.
Artists and writers can work entirely in their own program and preferred genre, or can take coursework between the two programs, customizing their course of studies to fit their individual needs and interests.
Intensive Weekend MFA Programs for Artists and Writers
We offer our MFA programs in an intensive weekend format. For more information and weekend dates, please see the individual programs.
Weekend Schedule: Students meet for classes 6 weekends per semester.
Academic Calendar Years 2010–2011 and 2011-2012
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Fall 2011 |
Fall 2012 |
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Orientation August 26, 2011 |
Orientation August 24, 2012 |
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August 26, 27, 28 |
August 24, 25, 25 September 7, 8, 9 September 21, 22, 23 October 12, 13, 14 November 9, 10, 11 Nov 30, Dec 1 and 2 |
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Spring 2012 |
Spring 2013 |
| January 20, 21, 22 February 3, 4, 5 February 17, 18, 19 March 9, 10, 11 March 30, 31, April 1 April 27, 28, 29 |
January 25, 26, 27 February 8, 9, 10 February 22, 23, 24 March 15, 16, 17 April 5, 6, 7 April 26, 27, 28 |
Hours: Friday 5:30–9:30 pm, Saturday 9 am–9 pm, Sunday 9 am–6 pm.
