PRWR 6800-01: CAREERS IN THE LITERARY ARTS
Professor Robert W. Hill
Kennesaw State University
Summer 2003
[July 2,
2003, 2003: third-run-of-the-term syllabus]
- This
course will provide the literary writer with an overview of the field in
which writing is published and received.
- It
will also present fundamental knowledge to prospective or practicing
literary administrators.
- Students
will survey information about organizations that currently support the
literary arts in the United States, as well as theory and practice of
literary arts management.
- Course
components include
- organizational
and individual artists' grants and fellowships,
- arts-in-education,
- publishing
houses,
- literary
centers,
- literary
journals,
- submissions-and-publications
procedures,
- literary
promotions, and
- time
management.
Class Meetings in
Humanities 231
Mondays 6-11pm: June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, July 7, 14, 21
Classroom time will
be complemented by substantial online work with instructional devices such as
WebCT, Nicenet [Class Key = 3739Z0P99], and
email.
June 2: sign on
to Nicenet and to WebCT; discuss basic topics and themes of the course;
annotate Works
Consulted page; take digital photos of the willing for class web sites;
determine our academic/professional interests and needs for this course: in
particular, (a) Writing, (b) Editing, (c) Arts Administration, (d) Grants, and
(e) Organizations
June 9: watch
54-minute Trio (pop.culture.tv) videotape with Sandra Bernhardt on
Art/Controversy; create individual homepages; form five study groups for
course-long study and presentation
June 16: Discuss
progress and directions of five study groups. Some one-on-one editing of group
writings. Specify each twenty (20) annotations per person for Works Consulted
page as course requirement
June 23: By end of class, have determined individual projects (see
“Grading Policy: C,” below)
June 30: WebCT chat room practice
July 7: “Guided” WebCT chat rooms from 7-8pm, may be accomplished
off-campus, but the time from 7-8pm is imperative, if not sacrosanct (I will be
on campus, in Hu231 classroom at 6pm, as usual.)
July 14: Lynn Coulter, freelancer, to visit class; discuss grant
applications
July 21: Five
group presentations
Grading Policy:
- Class participation
and attendance: i.e., being here, listening, talking, writing responses and at least twenty Works Consulted annotations in class and online, working in groups, etc.;
viz., being fully engaged in our learning community = 20%
- Group
research and presentation (due in class July 21); all members of group get
same grade = 40%
- Individual
written “product” to be determined in individual conferences with
professor (beginning the week of June 16); “product” due no later than
noon, July 23 = 30%
- Brief
(twenty-minute) final directed online response due no later than midnight
July 24 = 10%