创意写作硕士-使命 & 历史

We are committed to maintaining an inclusive community built upon diversity and multiculturalism in which all members of our community are valued. Our faculty and staff support our students as artists and as individuals, guiding their creative work and their development as emerging writers.

我们欢迎各种形式的写作. 我们强调以工艺为导向的方法, acknowledging that writing is an ongoing process helped along by shared reading.

We are dedicated to making the writing workshop a place where all students can come together in good faith, with the intention of helping one another become the best writers and readers they can be. The writing classroom is a place where all participants are respected as artists and as individual in our shared community. It is also a space where writers can take necessary (though not gratuitous) artistic risks, 犯不可避免的错误, and learn from them in a supportive and forgiving environment so that they become more informed artists and individuals.

作为一个文学团体, we understand the power of language and that, 在文学语境中, 它可以充电, 挥发性, 甚至让人心烦. While we do not police language in creative work, we understand its impact both in and outside the classroom, and encourage ongoing dialogue about its power and effect in literature and the world.

在社区中要坚持的价值观

• 尊重所有人
• 尊重不同的观点
• 小心探索冲突
• 积极倾听
• 承认我们的特权
• owning our intentions and impact within the group dynamic
• no direct attacks on our fellow classmates or their creative work

团结声明

We believe our program is made stronger by the diverse communities that call our nation home. We recognize the cultural, artistic, and economic contributions of immigrants and 难民. We cherish and will defend fundamental Constitutional rights, 比如正当程序和宗教自由, that are foundational for our democracy. 我们与移民站在一起, 难民, 还有被边缘化的人们——我们的邻居, 朋友, 家庭成员.