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etLy a fiAs Program June 26 Middlebury WIDE Summer 2012 www.middlebury.edu/blse a Rudyard Kipling © a a 75 S Saadat Hasan Manto Kingdoms E The Brief Wondrous & Junot Diaz Life of Oscar Wao S e A Pale View of Hills & Kazuo Ishig Middlebury CEREM o NY LESLIE MARMON RE: TBLSoEfncorh ghaeeMClofa oiio dldsl lMVdh oeilT gde edb luerbyu ry, HE BREAD LOAF SCHOOL OF ENGLISH (BLSE) Continuing Graduate Education offers a rich array of graduate courses in Students seeking an extraordinary professional literature, pedagogy, literacy, creative writing, development opportunity are invited to apply for and theater arts to students from across the U.S. and one summer of study at any of the BLSE campuses around the world. and will receive a Certificate in Continuing Graduate Education after successfully completing For six weeks each summer Bread Loaf students, their course work. most of them secondary-school teachers, study with a world-class faculty at one of our four sites: Santa Fe, New Mexico; Asheville, North Carolina; Oxford, England; and the home campus outside Middlebury, in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Students may Admission complete an MA or MLitt degree over the course of Admission is open to students already holding a BA four to five summers or may come for one summer degree or to exceptional rising seniors, and is based on of intensive continuing education. college transcripts, two letters of recommendation, a statement of purpose, and a writing sample. New-student admissions begins January 9 and continues on a rolling basis until May 15; because the school fills quickly, we recommend that interested candidates apply early. BLSEi s especially committed to increasing diversity in its community and encourages minority applications. Financial Aid Financial aid is available in the form of grants and loans. The aid is awarded on the basis of financial need and scholastic achievement on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information and downloadable forms, The Bread Loaf Teacher Network visit: www.middlebury.edu/blse/admissions/finaid. On-campus student jobs are available in Vermont and Established in 1993, the Bread Loaf Teacher New Mexico. A limited number of special fellowships Network (BLTN) is one of the finest professional may also be available; information will be posted on development networks in the country. Open to all the Bread Loaf website. Bread Loaf students, BLTN encourages innovative, media-rich collaboration among Bread Loaf teachers Graduate Degree Programs and their students year-round. BLSE offers both an MA and an MLitt program. To earn a degree, MA candidates must complete ten The Theater Program three-credit courses (two per summer), spanning a The classes and program in Vermont are enriched range of English, American, and world literature. The by the on-site presence of the Bread Loaf Acting MLitt program is open to students who already hold Ensemble. Throughout the summer, its professional an MA in English; MLitt candidates must complete actors work with faculty to bring texts to life in ten three-credit courses and a cumulative examination BLSE classrooms and work alongside students to or project in a chosen field of specialization. stage a number of outstanding theatrical productions. Bread Loaf| > School of English Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont OR SIX WORK-INTENSIVE from such distinguished pursue an MA or MLitt degree and pedagogy, designed weeks every summer, an institutions as Princeton, in English, or they may enroll especially for K-12 teachers, as extraordinary community Stanford, Emory, and Oxford for one summer of top-quality well as a nationally recognized of teachers and learners comes teach courses in literature and continuing graduate education. teacher network, which provides together at the four campuses of the allied fields of literacy, The Bread Loaf program offers a professional development for the Bread Loaf School of English pedagogy, creative writing, uniquely innovative curriculum BLSE students year-round. (BLSE). Faculty members drawn and theater arts. Students may Bread Loaf, Vermont : Santa Fe, New Mexico Since 1920, the central location for the school has been the campus Bread Loaf New Mexico is housed at St. John’s College, at the foot situated in the Green Mountains of Vermont. The curriculum covers of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Santa Fe. Courses emphasize all fields, and classes feature ground-breaking collaborations between the texts and cultures of the Southwest, among them American the BLSE faculty and the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble. Indian and Hispanic literature. Asheville, North Carolina Geni of Oxiord, England Bread Loaf’ southern campus is located at theU niversity of North The Bread Loaf prograin in England is housed at Lincoln College, Carolina in Asheville, in the heart of the Blue/Ridge MountainsT.h e Oxford, and offers double-credit seminars taught by Oxford’s curriculum emphasizes African American and Southern literature world-class faculty. Theicurriculum emphasizes British literature and and draws on the unique racial and cultural hory of the city. includes theater trips a trips to pertinent historical sites. j Hi | For more information l See the otherside of this poster for more information about the Bread Loaf School. To receive an application ahd catalog, or to learn about any special fellowships, write, call, or visit our website. Bread Loaf School of English e Middlebury College, Middlebury ;V T 05753 TEL: 802.443 poate FAX: 802.443.2060 E-MAIL: BLSE@breadnet. midflebury. edu -middlebury.edu/blse