We’ll pull this off through generating tons of beginnings to return to; collaborating and looking at visual, aural and textural art with words; interviewing one another; discovering our aims and aesthetics—our codas to live by; and finally, making our own rituals. Her work has been published in such venues as The Hudson Review, Poetry East, The Iowa Review, the Poetry Daily Anthology, AGNI Online, and The Common, and she’s written many reviews of children’s books for The New York Times Book Review. (Actuarial Science), use basic vector, raster, 3D design, video and web technologies in the creation of works of art. Stand-up comedy has the power to heal and renew, validate shared experiences, counterbalance bigotry and reach people who would otherwise be unwilling to listen. We’re likely to play surreal games. You’ll learn ease, flow and stage presence through improvisational games and develop your own personal comedy style or persona. that time you were humming a love song and your crush suddenly texted you? examine technical literature, resolve ambiguity and develop conclusions. Come to this workshop to gain a better understanding of the expectations of college-level writing, how to organize your ideas effectively, and the importance of revision and editing. The class will also analyze poetry from the sonnet to spoken word as a way to understand how meaning is shaped. Her poetry has appeared in Woman in Natural Resources, 13th Moon, Peregrine, North Dakota Quarterly, Letters from Daughters to Fathers, Writer Advice, Equinox, Calyx and Chrysalis. identify, formulate and solve integrative chemistry problems. To make a reader, listener or audience member pay attention to and resonate with our writing, we have to be super invested in what we’re trying to say: obsessed, even. *Note: Any special characters (e.g., accents, umlats, ampersands, etc.) You will draw from the totality of your being to understand what makes you unique and how best to share it. She has taught creative writing and composition at Smith College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, and InsideOut Literary Arts Project. Scholastic’s “Research Papers: A Writing Workshop” offers students (grades 3–5) the opportunity to learn more about a topic that interests them by writing a research paper on it — and makes the task of writing the report less intimidating by dividing the process into easy steps. We will constantly stress that theater is to be seen, and thus, students will integrate all facets of theatre—acting, lighting, set design and costume design—into their scripts. Her short fiction has appeared in Story, The Indiana Review, fivechapters and elsewhere, and her nonfiction in the Washington Post, O Magazine, OZY, Fiction Writers Review, and the anthologies First Antarctic Reader and Wild Child: Girlhoods in the Counterculture. Find additional action verbs. The second week we will workshop the manuscripts to bring out the best in our peers’ work. (Chemistry), build probability models to quantify risks of an insurance system, and use data and technology to make appropriate statistical inferences. Identify and summarize the important feature of major periods in the history of western culture, Apply important chemical concepts and principles to draw conclusions about chemical reactions, Demonstrate knowledge about the significance of current research in the field of psychology by writing a research paper. This workshop will take you there and beyond—to a magical realm of your own creation. The first week is designed to tap the muse and inspire new work through a series of writing exercises in-class and around Northampton. You will then add original research and reporting to transform your story into one with a broader appeal more suitable for a wide audience. During week two (our “workshop” week), the class will provide you with loads of feedback on a story. Folio Literary Management currently represents his first novel, Billy Hill. Is a sonnet better poetry than spoken word? Phil O’Donoghue is an assistant professor of theater and English at Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), where he teaches playwriting, acting and theater literature. We will experiment through our own writing generated and shared in class. . The way we choose our words can alter perception. She has had a rise to the top, working comedy clubs throughout the United States and abroad. Alex Chambers grew up in Northampton but has lived most of his adult life in parts west and south. What must a powerful story include and, just as importantly, what must it leave out? Best-selling author J. Courtney Sullivan ’03 dropped by to give some writing and publishing tips to students in the Young Women’s Writing Workshop. Sara Eddy teaches writing and tutors in the Jacobson Center for Writing at Smith College. Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Believer, Unsaid, Sleepingfish and Caketrain. Please let us know. Bloom, B.S. guide, mentor and support peers to achieve excellence in practice of the discipline. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from New York University and a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. There's a settled body of research on how best to teach early reading. Tuition covers room, board and all academic costs, including books, classroom field trips, etc. In this workshop, we will examine a range of different narrators who tell fearless stories. We will learn while we write and while we search through others’ writing. This two-week residential program will foster your love of writing in a variety of mediums. Do you have a zillion ideas, or none at all, with no clue how to begin? The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center at Smith College connects the work of the classroom with the world of living poets. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to be a stand-up comedian. In addition to directing at STCC, he has also directed at the Williston-Northampton Summer Theatre Program. retrieve, analyze, and interpret the professional and lay literature providing information to both professionals and the public. He has published poems, essays and reviews in Gulf Coast, Puerto del Sol, Paper Darts, The Rumpus and elsewhere, and has taught in prisons, high schools, community centers and universities.He has a master’s in fine arts in creative writing from the University of Alabama and is currently completing a doctorate in American studies at Indiana University in Bloomington. What does it mean to write fiction as a woman today? In 2006, Wofford moved to Northampton, where he founded Noho Screenwriters Workshop, and co-founded Happy Wasteland Studios, which produced his second feature, The Answer (winner of the Rising Star Award at the Canada International Film Festival, and Heroes Don’t Come Home (which Wofford DP’d). New York. The goal is to have students not only develop an appreciation of dialogue, but also to leave the workshop with a script they further develop and perform. In 2001, Anderson, Krathwohl and colleagues revised the taxonomy. Using films, produced screenplays and short texts as instructional tools, students will learn the fundamentals of structuring a story for translation to the screen. Sara London is the author of a poetry collection, The Tyranny of Milk (Four Way Books), and two children’s books, Firehorse Max (HarperCollins) and The Good Luck Glasses (Scholastic). What is poetry? demonstrate their understanding of major theories, approaches, concepts, and current and classical research findings in the area of concentration. As part of this work, she teaches a class on food writing, and helps students craft memoirs, essays and reviews that focus on the meaning of food in our lives. Demystifying College Writing. Writing workshop is a student-centered framework for teaching writing that is based on the idea that students learn to write best when they write frequently, for extended periods of time, on topics of their own choosing. She learned the nuts and bolts of reporting at daily newspapers in Alaska, covering everything from dog mushing and crime to politics and rural social issues. and formatting (e.g., bullets, dashes, numbering, etc.) Her plays have been produced in New York, London, California and lovely Iowa. Sara was born in San Francisco, grew up in Vermont, and now lives in Northampton. In addition to his work with the summer programs, Sapira also teaches composition and public speaking at Smith College. You’ll practice writing dialogue and description, and consider the puzzle of plot. Students will be notified of their course placement on June 15. An eye for arresting detail strengthens any writer’s work, so although this course is designed primarily for writers of fiction, it should be useful for those interested in poetry, nonfiction, and graphic novels as well. We accomplish this goal through research, curriculum development, and through working shoulder-to-shoulder with students, teachers, and school leaders. It’s a power to be able to lull others into the rhythms of our visions. In the first week of this class we’ll examine short works of creative nonfiction that use food as a key element, and you will be given in-class exercises and prompts based on those works that will help you generate ideas and write your own pieces about food and its meaning in our lives. Jones’ novel, Maud & Addie, is with Writer’s House of New York. Carin Clevidence is the author of the novel The House on Salt Hay Road. What makes writing come alive on the page? She is currently completing her degree through University without Walls at The University of Massachusetts Amherst and polishing her novel. We’ll draw monsters and make them answer poetic questions. All of our classes apply the design model to writing: rather than trying to craft perfect texts, we teach an open, multidraft process that embraces the unpredictable that occurs when we stop trying to control our writing. Are you a secret scribbler (or maybe not-so-secret), eager to get a new story onto the page? A workshop is a special kind of classroom discussion in which students discuss each other’s work. In the first week, we will dissect what makes for a good magazine story; learn how to find credible sources; conduct practice interviews (and learn what it means to have “a good ear”); master the all-important “nut graf”; and learn how to write a query—a letter used to pitch your story to a real publication. New York: Longman. In this class, you will work with a veteran journalist to turn your personal story or issue you are passionate about into a reported piece of journalism ready for publication. This means it can be used as a potent tool in writing memoir, portrait and description. We’ll also discuss how to control hecklers and other distractions during a performance. Using short examples of evocative prose and field trips to local attractions like the Smith Art Museum and the Botanical Garden, we will hone our writer’s eye and our attention to detail. Her poems have appeared in Foundry, Zingara and One Magazine. Smith has been awarded the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the Judy Grahn Prize for Lesbian Nonfiction and a Lambda Literary Award. We will become a word coven! In addition to individual feedback from your instructors, you will also become part of an international writing community, as the program accepts students from all over the world. Smith College Are there limits to who can be a poet? The group will offer feedback to help direct the revision process and guide you toward finalizing your tale of wonder! Writing Workshops. In 2017, she was an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA for an interdisciplinary project connected to her manuscript, The Bottom. We’ll explore the craft of world-building and the art of bridging real and unreal domains, while honing our core writing skills. Complete the form below to request one of the workshops on our in-class writing workshops list.You also have the option of scheduling a brief in-class Writing Studio introduction via a separate request form. When submitting learning outcomes for course or program approvals, or assessment planning and reporting, please: The following are recommended steps for writing clear, observable and measurable student learning outcomes. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The classification of educational goals. Millicent was born in Albany, grew up in Amherst, and now lives in South Deerfield. the secret word that sets a spell in motion? In this two-week memoir workshop you will learn how to focus your life’s stories, giving them voice and purpose. Tuition includes the nonrefundable deposit. Experiencing an accessibility issue on a Smith web page? Kim DeShields is a professional comedian from Amherst with a bachelor’s degree in theater from Spelman College. work in multi-disciplinary teams and provide leadership on materials-related problems that arise in multi-disciplinary work. Students will leave this course with lots of ways to generate new writing as well as tactics to move their work to the next level. The College Archives houses a rich collection of material documenting the history of Smith from the 1860s to the present. identify, formulate and solve problems using appropriate information and approaches. In the evenings, you can take part in activities such as open mic night and improv, or attend workshops on publishing, finding an agent and creating an author website. Students will take part in one morning and one afternoon workshop during the program. In this workshop you’ll learn the tricky arts of launching a narrative, creating character, and developing “voice” and point-of-view. We all have been captivated by the seduction, singularity and focused intention of this kind of voice. Karen Aho has worked for more than 25 years as a journalist. The second week will be devoted to workshopping the first act, outline, and select scenes from acts two and three. In this two-week course we will focus on the elements of fiction that make us love what we read. To the right: find a sampling of verbs that represent learning at each level. Through prompts and self-inquiry you will launch an investigation into your memories, your relationships, your senses, your feelings, and your dreams. He has taught undergraduate fiction writing at UMass. Smith College announced that on-campus summer programs will not be running in 2020. Handbook 1, Cognitive Domain. *In 1956, Benjamin Bloom and colleagues differentiated six levels of learning in the “cognitive” domain and proposed a list of skills that would indicate understanding at each level. Accepting young women entering grades 9, 10, 11, 12 in fall 2020. At both the course and program level, student learning outcomes should be clear, observable and measurable, and reflect what will be included in the course or program requirements (assignments, exams, projects, etc.). * design and conduct experiments, and analyze and interpret data. Is a song lyric a poem? How do the authors we love immerse us in scenes so vivid we feel as if we’re experiencing them ourselves? 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For additional sample action verbs, consult Effective Use of Performance Objectives for Learning and Assessment. In this course, students will immerse themselves in all aspects of visual storytelling, including the development of concept, theme, character, dialogue and dramatic structure. We will excavate memories from the substrata of our minds, and feelings from our toes and fingernails (figuratively, at least). 1. Watch the informative video from a March 2010 NIH workshop designed for those making the transition from postdoctoral to independent researcher status. She has been writing professionally for over 15 years. Remembering and understanding: recall, identify, label, illustrate, summarize. She has led workshops with women who have experienced domestic violence. Jennifer teaches creative writing at Smith College’s Young Women’s Writing Workshop, and with Voices From Inside, created the Family Storybook Project curriculum for incarcerated women and their children. Student learning outcomes state what students are expected to know or be able to do upon completion of a course or program. for an entirely remote fall 2020 semester. Wade Wofford has studied cinema for 20 years: drama at the University of Georgia, acting at the Sanford Meisner Center and film production at The Los Angeles Film School. Our aim is to send you home with a complete new narrative and the tools to revise and to write even more on your own. We will discuss what we admire about these texts, and how you can make use of it in your own writing. His work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Fourteen Hills and Unstuck, and he is the co-author of the collaborative chapbook Peer Confessions. Through group discussions and an individual instructor conference, we will consider the strengths and weaknesses of the work we produce and identify revision strategies. We will read works by Elizabeth Acevedo, Alice Walker, Tayari Jones and Jennifer Weiner, among others. In this form, students will rank their preferences for courses. She co-hosts and produces the Fortune’s Wheelhouse podcast and is the author of three books: A Spoonful of Promises: Recipes and Stories from a Well-Tempered Table (Globe Pequot, 2011), Tarot Correspondences: Ancient Secrets for Everyday Readers (Llewellyn, 2018), and The Fortune’s Wheelhouse Guide to Esoteric Tarot (Llewellyn, forthcoming). Following the annual workshop mentees have the opportunity to participate in post-workshop peer review panels offered in March, May, and July. Writing essays at the college level can feel overwhelming. evaluate evidence to determine and implement best practice. We’ll explore how to identify potential material, how to turn life experiences into jokes and make simple observations funny. Do you have a story you’d like to see published in a major newspaper, magazine or website? Jennifer Jacobson is the director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the Juniper Institute for Young Writers. Does poetry have rules? This course will discuss these questions and more. Ultimately, the main goal of this workshop is to practice writing and sharing our stories as fearlessly as possible. Click on the program of your choosing to find its designated learning outcomes. The advice given above on class discussions also applies when you and your peers are given time in class (or in a group study session, in the writing center, etc.) As writers, how do we transport our readers into the mind and circumstances of a complex character? communicate effectively through written reports, oral presentations and discussion. Starting with writing prompts, students will learn how playwrights nurture their ideas into fully realized theatrical experiences. All rights reserved. She is also the associate director of the MFA for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Vanderbilt University is committed to principles of equal opportunity and affirmative action. Her short story “Heat” received an honorable mention from Glimmer Train, and “Trouble and Bones” was a Tennessee Williams Festival’s Fiction contest finalist. demonstrate an understanding of the basic biology of microorganisms. 1956. Our readers will superimpose their own impressions over what we create, and in that, there’s magic. All scripts will be read, discussed, reworked and performed. Each student will workshop once, refining a piece or conglomeration of pieces in a kind and open environment. write clear and concise technical reports and research articles. Students will have the opportunity to see and read scenes from famous plays and then take their own ideas and put them into action. (Ed.) As a storyteller, she had been featured on The Story Collider and PBS’s Stories from the Stage. apply knowledge of mathematics, chemistry, physics, and materials science and engineering principles to materials and materials systems. Although not everyone will get their first choice, all students will receive at least one first-choice placement. In this class students will have the opportunity to write and develop their own original scripts. We will develop dynamic, passionate main characters who drive the plot through their own actions—plots that challenge our main characters and sweep the reader breathlessly through the story. For more information, please visit Smith’s “Culture of Care” website. *Please note: for Fall 2020, all workshops will be conducted via Zoom. He wrote, directed and produced Perception, which won Best Dramatic Feature at Hollywood's DIY Film Festival. She grew up in a family of naturalists and travelers, and her past jobs also include deckhand in Baja, Mexico, and an assistant expedition leader in Antarctica. (Math), identify characteristics of certain structures of the body and explain how structure governs function. (Ed. Vanderbilt®, Vanderbilt University®, V Oak Leaf Design®, Star V Design® and Anchor Down® are trademarks of The Vanderbilt University, Welcome! Feedback, questions or accessibility issues: caitlin.obrien@wisc.edu. In this two-week session, we’ll explore all the elements of crafting fiction with a special focus on learning how to make imagined moments real. (Ed. We will read short published work to deepen our understanding of scene, point of view, character, setting and dialogue. The goal of this course is to give writers the tools they need to be successful in writing for young adults and to have students leave with a collection of shorter works and one longer piece. We will also read and talk about other writers’ poems, to figure out what a poem is and can be. Typically there are 3-7 course learning outcomes and 3-7 program learning outcomes. She is the recipient of the 2008 Archie D. and Bertha H. Walker Foundation Scholarship and the 2017 General Scholarship for fiction from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Academic director and instructor Peter Sapira received his bachelor of arts in English from San Francisco State University and his master of fine arts in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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