Students synthesize what they learned in the M.P.A. program in a paper that addresses an important gap in knowledge about a particular issue in public policy or management.

This course will focus on installation and performance in conversation with diverse media and the local ecosystem. The thematic focus of the seminar will critically engage in the question: How can we create a sustainable environment in which to pursue and create artistic, agricultural, ecological, and socio-economic equity? Aware of our daily investments in settler-colonialism, how will we in our practices steward this land with seven generations at the forefront? As a class we will draft a mission statement and plans of action through installation to approach these questions.

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This seminar course will take as its starting point the idea that women's lives are complex, valuable, and interesting, and that creative writers can benefit from closely and courageously imagining, exploring, and textualizing them. Our readings will focus on women writers whose work is considered 'difficult' - strange, complicated and provocative; and we will use these writings as a springboard for our own weekly written work.

Understanding the limits and possibilities of point of view is an essential step in becoming a writer. This reading and workshop course will introduce members to various kinds of literary point of view. Through focused writing exercises, intensive reading of contemporary U.S. and international fiction told in different modes, members will acquire a language for analyzing point of view in fiction, as well as practical experience in using varied points of view themselves.

This theatre course identifies the potential sources of artistic impulse and provides tools to develop artistic practice. From discovering the multiplicity of sources of inspiration, students will develop their own creative process from scratch to a final performance. The course challenges the creator to continually return to the articulation of the investigation in various ways, learn strategies to dealing with roadblocks, and encourages innovation and experimentation with rigor and social conscience.