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HLC/NCA Accreditation at Phoenix College
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PROGRAM ASSESSMENT March 2003 Our numbers for the academic year 2001-2002 have remained strong; we offered nearly thirty classes, of which only three were cancelled; over three hundred seats were filled. The program continues to grow, as shown by enrollment totals (45th Day Measures):
The enrollment numbers above, as well as the following data on the four graduates of the Creative Writing program at PC during the 2001-2002 academic year, were tabulated and verified by PC’s Director of Institutional Assessment and Planning, Dr. Jeremy Moreland. All four graduates of the program in 2001-2002 were returning students. All had BA degrees; one possessed graduate degrees. Three of the four were female. The recipients ranged in age from 21 to 63, with the average age being 43.5. The students’ average GPA, for the semester in which they were awarded CRW certificates, was 3.93; they had completed a cumulative average of 46 college credits, with an average of 5.75 credit hours having been earned during the semester in which they were awarded the Academic Certificate in Creative Writing. As part of an effort to increase community awareness of PC’s Creative Writing courses as well as its program, we presented six “New Voices,” a reading series concentrating on student writing and open to the public. In addition, we brought in five well-know writers for our students and the wider community, and offered sixteen free writing workshops for the public, many of which were filled beyond capacity. This spring we are offering a Friday-Saturday seminary, “Getting Published in the Real World,” featuring Kim Adelman, whose success story appeared in Time magazine. Our program continues to reach into the wider community, primarily because we attract writers who, for one reason or another, are not interested in pursuing MFA in Creative Writing degrees. Many of our students are writing memoirs and family history; others are interested in writing for children. For those who are interested in further academic work, our program offers an excellent preparation for the MFA. We have also carried out substantial revisions to our program. According to Jim Gregory, Coordinator of PC’s Curriculum Office, a total of 19 CRW proposals have been processed this academic year. The proposals included: · Modifications to course numbers, titles, and/or prerequisite requirements for 14 CRW courses. · Proposals for four (4) new CRW courses. · An Academic Program Modification proposal, modifying the program to reflect the changes embodied in the above 18 course proposals. These proposals, and the accompanying program modification, have been designed to make the two tracks of our program (the Certificate Track and the “General Track”) more accessible and responsive to our students. We have created four “umbrella” courses, one for each of the major creative writing genres (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and film/play writing) under which we can offer a wide variety of topics, giving us the ability to respond to “timely” or “hot” areas of concern for creative writers. These modifications include the deletion of a number of smaller (one- or two-credit) courses from the District course bank, allowing us to expand these topics into three-credit offerings under one of the “umbrella” courses, as we see fit. We have also identified several large communities of interest in
the We continue to receive requests from talented and published writers who would like to teach for us. Future projects include writing a grant for the Arizona Commission on the Arts to widen our reading series, organizing a Phoenix College Creative Writing Program Writing Contest, and renewing our outreach into the valley high schools by sending writers in to read, educate, and recruit. Finally, I would like to include several testimonials from students.
What we really offer to the community is an attentive and caring space
in which people can explore their desire to write, regardless of their
level of experience. Based on their experiences
in our program, many of our students form small writing “cells”
to continue their work. Many have successfully placed their
work in literary journals, while others have self-published work for
their family and friends. We are pleased, even proud, to offer these
services to our community, and feel that we make a substantial contribution
to the mission of Jed Allen Director 602-285-7345 THE Printed schedules are available on the Academic Certificate in Creative Writing: 24 credits Draft Required Courses 21 credits AREA NOTES: ENG 210 may be substituted for CRW 150 with permission of Program Coordinator. CRW 150 Introduction to Creative Writing OR 3 CRW 155 Bilingual Creative Writing AND CRW 120 Introduction to Writing Children’s Literature OR 6 THE 118 Playwriting OR CRW 160 Introduction to Writing Poetry OR CRW 170 Introduction to Writing Fiction OR CRW 180 Introduction to Writing Creative Nonfiction OR CRW 190 Introduction to Screenwriting AND CRW 220 Intermediate Writing Children’s Literature OR 9 CRW 270 Intermediate Fiction Writing OR CRW 290 Intermediate Screenwriting OR CRW 261 Topics in Writing: Poetry OR CRW 271 Topics in Writing: Fiction OR CRW 281 Topics in Writing: Nonfiction OR CRW 291 Topics in Writing: Plays OR CRW 272 Planning and Structuring the Novel OR CRW 273 Writing the Novel OR CRW 274 Revising the Novel AND CRW 200 CRW 201 Portfolio 1 Restricted Electives 3 credits CRW 202 The Writer as Witness CRW 203 Dialogue CRW 204 Journaling CRW 275 Writing the Mystery Novel Any other CRW Any ENH ENG 217 Personal and Exploratory Writing ENG 219 Life Stories ENG 235 Magazine Article Writing ENG 236 Magazine Writer’s Workshop ENG 260 Film Analysis HUM/THE 210 Contemporary Cinema THE 220 Modern Drama COM/THP 241 Performance of Literature COM/THP 243 Interpreters Theatre |
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