Bread Loaf School of English 2018 Course Catalog
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BREAD LOAF SCHOOL OF ENGLISH 2018 COURSE CATALOG SUMMER 2018 1 SUMMER 2018 SESSION DATES VERMONT Arrival and registration . June 26 Classes begin . June. 27 Classes end . August. 7 Commencement . August. 11 NEW MEXICO Arrival and registration . June 16–17 Classes begin . June. 18 Classes end . July . 26 Commencement . July. 26 OXFORD Arrival . June 25 Registration . June . 26 Classes begin . June. 27 Classes end . August. 3 Commencement . August. 4 2 BLSE WELCOME TO BREAD LOAF WHERE YOU’LL FIND ■ A unique chance to recharge ■ A dynamic peer community of your imagination teachers, scholars, and working professionals ■ Six uninterrupted weeks of rigorous graduate study ■ A full range of cocurricular opportunities ■ Close interaction with a distinguished faculty ■ A game-changing teachers’ network ■ An expansive curriculum in literature, pedagogy, and creative arts SUMMER 2018 1 IMMERSIVE GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTINCTIVE The ideal place for teachers and working Three campuses providing distinctive cultural professionals to engage with faculty and peers and educational experiences. Read, write, and in high-intensity graduate study, full time. Field create in the enriching contexts of Vermont’s trips, readings, performances, workshops, and Green Mountains, Santa Fe, and the city and other events will enrich your critical and creative university of Oxford. thinking. FLEXIBLE EXPANSIVE Education suited to your goals and building on The only master’s program that puts courses your talents, interests, and levels of expertise. in English, American, and world literatures in Come for one session, or pursue a master’s degree conversation with courses in creative writing, across four to five summers. pedagogy, and theater arts. Think across disciplinary boundaries, and learn from faculty INDIVIDUALIZED who bring diverse approaches to what and how Instruction and advising individualized to they teach. foster your success. Small classes, sustained conversations with faculty, peer mentoring, and year-round advising help you thrive. 2 BLSE TRANSFORMATIVE CONNECTED A program committed to making a difference A dedicated learning community that engages to our students and theirs. The nationally in innovative thought and action. Bread Loaf recognized Bread Loaf Teacher Network is connections last and last, fostering lifelong open to all students as a year-round resource, learning and support. providing training and support for teachers who are committed to bringing Bread Loaf learning into their own classrooms, changing minds, lives, and communities. IMAGINATIVE Experimental pedagogies that engage the imagination and turn literature on its head. The Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble links performance to interpretation in Bread Loaf classes. Weekly workshops introduce hot-off-the-press topics, technologies, and areas of research. SUMMER 2018 3 4 BLSE CAMPUSES Bread Loaf provides opportunities for study at three distinctive campuses—two in the U.S. and one in the U.K. BREAD LOAF/VERMONT, the main campus, BREAD LOAF/OXFORD is based at Lincoln is located in the Green Mountain National Forest, College and is centrally located within the city just outside Middlebury. Students have access to and university of Oxford. The student body is the Middlebury College campus and resources. approximately 75 students. Classes, which take The program enrolls roughly 260 students each place in tutors’ rooms across the colleges, are summer and offers the widest curriculum and the small. Students take only one double-credit largest faculty. All degree students must attend course, which blends independent study, seminar this campus for at least one summer. The Bread meetings, and one-on-one tutorials. Students Loaf Acting Ensemble brings performance into have access to the Bodleian Library, the finest classes as an interpretive tool and heads a major research library in the world. Excursions include theatrical production. Extracurricular activities theater trips to London and Stratford, and visits include weekend excursions to the many nearby to museums and other historical sites. trails, mountain lakes, and rivers. RESIDENTIAL LIFE BREAD LOAF/NEW MEXICO is housed at St. At all campuses, most students live and eat on John’s College, just outside the city of Santa Fe. campus, where they are able to take advantage The program enrolls approximately 75 students of the many opportunities for learning outside and features courses tied to the local environ- the classroom. All students have access to the ment. The Acting Ensemble assists in classes and Middlebury library system, as well as the library stages culturally linked readings. Opera work- of the host campus. Most rooms at the U.S. shops take advantage of the nearby Santa Fe campuses are doubles; Lincoln College rooms are Opera and its top-quality open-air productions. singles with en suite bathrooms. Bread Loaf is Excursions include trips to Acoma Pueblo and family friendly, but students who bring families Tent Rocks National Park. A peaceful spot for reading in Vermont, the everyday outdoor living of Santa Fe, and the historic streets and alleyways of Oxford—these are what make Bread Loaf special . SUMMER 2018 5 HISTORY In 1915, Joseph Battell, a former Middlebury College student and longtime Middlebury businessman, willed to Middlebury College an inn, a collection of cottages, and 31,000 acres in the Ripton, Vermont 1885 heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains . These lands and residences became home to the Bread Loaf School of English, which held its first session in 1920 with the aim of providing graduate education in the fields of English and American literatures, public speaking, creative writing, dramatic production, and the teaching of English . In 2015, the philanthropy of trustee Louis Bacon ’79 ensured the conservation of 2,100 acres of Bread Loaf land in perpetuity through the Bread Loaf Preservation Fund . to a U.S. campus, or who wish to live off campus at any site, must make their own arrangements; some family housing is available in Lincoln College. Students at the Vermont campus may take advantage of an off-site daycare center at discounted rates. Time to reflect and engage is built into the Bread Loaf experience . 6 BLSE ACADEMICS Bread Loaf’s interdisciplinary curriculum cultivates expansive critical and creative thought. THE MASTER OF ARTS (MA) DEGREE THE MASTER OF LETTERS The Master of Arts program gives students a (MLITT) DEGREE broad exposure to British, American, and world The Master of Letters program allows students literatures. The curriculum is divided into six to design and explore a specialized concentration groups: within the Bread Loaf curriculum. Seven of the 10 units required for the degree must be in that concentration. Although no thesis is required, in 1: Writing, Pedagogy, and Literacy the final summer degree candidates will take a 2: British Literature: Beginnings through comprehensive examination or produce a final the Seventeenth Century project that covers the course of study. 3: British Literature: Eighteenth Century CONTINUING GRADUATE EDUCATION to the Present Students may enroll for continuing graduate 4: American Literature education for one or more summers. Students 5: World Literature receive a certificate in continuing education 6: Theater Arts after successful completion of each summer term. Continuing education students may take advantage of all that Bread Loaf offers, including membership in the Bread Loaf Teacher Network, Degree candidates must complete 10 units, and may elect to pursue a degree, as long as they including five distributional requirements. No are in good academic standing. Credits earned master’s thesis is required. Though students have at the School of English will usually transfer to 10 years to complete the degree, they ordinarily other graduate institutions as long as the courses take two units per summer and finish the degree are not counted toward a Bread Loaf degree. in four to five summers. SUMMER 2018 7 8 BLSE COURSE LOAD Each unit is equivalent to three semester hours KEN MACRORIE or four-and-one-half quarter-hours of graduate WRITING CENTERS credit. Classes at the U.S. campuses are valued at one unit each; Oxford classes are valued at Each Bread Loaf campus offers a writing two units. The normal course load is two units center staffed by trained Bread Loaf per summer. To complete either degree in four students . The centers were established years, students may request to transfer up to in honor of Ken Macrorie, a leader in two graduate courses (credit equivalent of six the field of writing and education . Peer semester hours or nine quarter-hours) from other readers at each center offer students accredited institutions. rich opportunities to develop discipline- specific writing skills in the context of their INDEPENDENT WORK summer work . Bread Loaf offers students with exceptional academic records opportunities to pursue independent research as one unit of study: the Independent Research Project, a yearlong course of independent research that culminates in STUDENT BODY PROFILE 2017 an 8,000-word essay or creative portfolio; the Independent Summer Project in Theater Arts, an States represented . .42 . independent project in acting, directing, play- Countries represented . 14. writing, or other theater arts that culminates in a Student-faculty ratio . .9:1 . summer production; or the Oxford Independent Students who are teachers . 80%. Tutorial, a summer tutorial that a student pursues at the Oxford campus under the guidance of a Students receiving financial-aid