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is an innovative sequence of writing workshops and close-reading seminars designed to offer gifted undergraduate writers in the New School Bachelors Program a balanced and substantial literary education. As one part of the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative at The New School, the honors program accents “the writer in the world,” and extends to undergraduates the mission and accomplishments of the New School's well-known graduate program in Creative Writing.
The core of the program is a curriculum of writing workshops (fiction, nonfiction, poetry) and literature seminars, culminating in a thesis project. You also earn credit for attending the Writer’s Life Colloquium, an ongoing series of public readings, literary forums, lectures, symposia and panel discussions. Additional elective courses are selected from the broad curriculum of The New School for General Studies.
The program is structured to create and foster a community of undergraduate writers through regular student readings and other peer-group activities, including a literary magazine, 12th Street, edited and published by New School undergraduates.
Students who are accepted into the honors program and fulfill the academic requirements receive a scholarship of $4,000 during the thesis semester. Riggio Honors Program students graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts.
Faculty for 2008-2009: Jeffery Renard Allen, Catherine Barnett, Mark Bibbins, Elizabeth Gaffney, David Gates, Shelley Jackson, Zia Jaffrey, Suzannah Lessard, Sigrid Nunez, Honor Sachs, René Steinke, Lynne Tillman, and Paul Violi.
Laura Cronk, Associate Director; Luis Jaramillo, Associate Chair;
Robert Polito, Director, the Writing Program |
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