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March 1 992 The Lance » St. Andrews Presbyterian College Campus & City Page 9 continued from front page Admissions While classes will not be restricted, only 15 stu dents will be admitted as candidates for the master's degree each year. In reference to the low limit Bayes said: "It's going to be highly competitive. We are aiming at producing top- notch professional imaginative writers who can compete in the job market in pubh shing and teaching as well as en hance their skills for the business world." Non-candidate stu dents may attend classes with degree candidates for transfer credits, teacher recertification, or out of interest for in dividual classes. Degree candidate students re ceive enrollment prior ity, and the three credit- hour writing workshops admit a maximum of 15 students. Depth of Staff and Planners Evening symposiums will be run by "Master Writers," who are pub lished professionals, writers such as Carolyn Kizer, Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Dr. Donald Keene, Kincho professor of Japanese Literature at Columbia University, and fiction writers John Casteen and Clyde Edgerton. Howard McCord, di rector of the MFA pro gram at Bowling Green University in Ohio, af ter serving on the four- member Blue Ribbon Panel which advised St. Andrews on designing its MFA, said, "The St. Andrews MFA should be the most exciting pro gram of its kind in the U.S." Ann Deagon, Chair of classics at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C., Dr. Judith Johnson, and Sam Ragan, former secretary of culture for North Carolina, also sat on the Blue Ribbon Panel. Edna Ann Loftus, associate professor of English at St. Andrews, will serve as the chair of admissions for the MFA program .Robert Hopkins, associate pro fessor of economics and business at St. Andrews, acts as chair of the program's steering com mittee. The entire staff from the St. Andrews depart ment of humanities and fine arts will at one point participate in the MFA Self Storase at the Storage Solution Storage Spaces from 24 to 300 Sq. Ft Summer's Coming Call Now to Reserve Your Space 1610 Hickory Street 277-0331 program. Dr. Richard Prust, who will be teach- ing a graduate-level class in aesthetics this coming fall, said, "I have never taught at a non- residential college be fore. It will be an adven ture for me...Every Sec ond of those three-hour classes is golden." Give and Take Bayes, Prust and Smith said that the MFA will benefit St. Andrews and Sandhills in a number of ways. Bayes said it will raise the profile of St. Andrews "appropri ately." Prust said the program will introduce teachers to the open teaching style indicative of St. Andrews and en courage teachers to re fer their promising writ ers to St. Andrews. Smith said the MFA pro- gramis likely to increase the vitality of the St. An drews Press and the Sandhills-St. Andrews Review. Discussing the dif ference in his expecta tions for graduate and undergraduate students, Prust said, "I'm not look ing to see how hard I can push them. I want to see what I can get them ex cited about. How can I get them to use fully reflect on the relationship be tween their imagi native work and their sense of what is real?" Requirements MFA graduates are required to complete 36 credit hours, minimum. This can be done in three years. Six thesis hours are awarded for writ ing the required book-length manuscript. De gree candidates must emphasize poetry, prose-fic- tion or play writ ing. The Admission fee is $200, applicable to tu ition upon entry. Tuition is $250 per credit hour. Students must take six to seven credit hours per semester to graduate in three years. A maximum of 12 credit hours may be transferred from other insdtutions with permission of the admission com mittee. The usual minimum education requirement for admission to the MFA program is a bachelor's degree. continued from front page Corinne L. Nicholson, assistant professor of J business, Lawrence E. "Larry" Schulz, Jefferson Pilot associate professor of politics, William M. "Bill" ^ Throop, associate pro fessor of philosophy, and Thomas E. "Tom" Williams, associate pro fessor of history. Each of the workshop partici pants has taught in and contributed to the SAGE program. Clark chaired the meetings whi le Jonathan R. Franz, dean of stu dents, sat in. Clark explained at an open forum Feb. 20 that careful thought and preparation went into this proposal. A summer open house took sugges tions from students. The summer workshop group reviewed other schools' general educa tion programs, inter viewed library and com puter center personnel and the dean of students, could change and im prove it. Charles W. "Skip" Clark, chair of SAGE, said the main goal of the summer workshop was to plan how to "tie all the SAGE courses together and to use resources more ef fectively." The 11 faculty mem bers included: Norman T. Boggs ni, associate professor of chemistry, Mary Louise "Mel" Bringle, Jefferson Pilot associate professor of re ligion, Barbara J. Frank, assistant professor of math, Dennis McCracken, associate professor of biology, and looked at existing interviews of St. An drews seniors who com pleted the SAGE pro gram. They wanted the new SAGE program "to be able to relate what is taught in class to events in the world, to look at the issues more in depth, and to use the expertise of-all faculty members to enhance the learning experience in SAGE," said Clark. Christy Baumgard, student member of the Educational Policies Committee (EPC), said, "I think the new SAGE program is going to work out really well. It's go ing to blend all the courses and all the ma terial learned in con text." Baumgard said that she thinks the new SAGE program will be more effective than the previous program. Clark is optimistic about the SAGE revi sion. He said, "almost all com ments have been favor able, and the faculty is excited and ready to go. We will have a very well-integrated staff that all will benefit from and with luck all the students will be as excited as the faculty." The SAGE teams will meet to design course material, and the faculty will be trained during the summer to put the new SAGE program into effect.
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