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‘The Calendar and Fees, Summer 2004 Program in Alaska Bread Loaf June 22—August 4 (Tuition $3,490, Room and Board $2,270) School of English Program in Mexico June 22—August 4 (Tuition $3,490, Room and Board will vary depending upon the student’s choice of Summer 2004 housing options.) Kek Program in New Mexico June 15—July 29 (Tuition $3 490, Room and Board $2,270) Program at Lincoln College, Oxford June 28—August 7 (Comprehensive Fee: $7,185) Program at Bread Loaf, Vermont June 22—August 7 (Tuition $3,490, Room $515, Board $1,285) a He, -=WN PSOn N aa nj O = = Auke Lake, on the University of Alaska OA Eeaq Southeast campus. TBLroheae7 af d MCiod dlebury A The Bread Loaf third course for credit. A grade of B- or better Undergraduate Honors Program is required in order to receive course credit. Undergraduates who have completed their School of English While the degree usually takes five summers to junior year of college may also seek admission. complete, students may transfer in up to two Their courses may be transferred to their home units of work (six semester-hour credits) and institutions or they may serve as the initial Since 1920, the Bread Loaf School of English may apply to do up to two independent reading credits leading to the M.A. degree at the has held six-week summer sessions, offering projects and thus may complete the degree in Bread Loaf School of English. graduate courses in literary study, the teaching three or four summers. of writing, creative writing, and theater arts. ADMISSION Students may elect to attend the school for The curriculum is divided into six groups: one or two summers, or they may follow a full (I) Writing and the Teaching of Writing, (II) Admission is based on college transcripts, two program of studies leading to a graduate degree English Literature through the 17th Century, letters of recommendation, a statement of (M.A. or M.Litt.), usually in four or five sum- (IHI) English Literature since the 17th Century, purpose, and a writing sample. mers. The faculty of the school is drawn from (IV) American Literature, (V) World Literature, such distinguished colleges and universities as and (VI) Theater Arts. Ordinarily the M.A. Admissions decisions on first-year students are Princeton, Stanford, Yale, the University of program includes a minimum of two courses made on a rolling basis, beginning February 1. Iowa, and OxfordT.h e school’s students, most each from Groups II and III, and one course Students will be considered for admission until of whom are secondary school teachers, are each from Groups IV and V. May 15, but as the school fills quickly, it is diverse in geographical origin, age, race, and suggested that application materials arrive background. The Master of Letters (M.Litt.) Degree before March 1, when course registration The M.Litt. program builds, in a concentrated, begins. Decisions on special fellowships may The Bread Loaf School of English is one of specialized way, on the broader base of the be made somewhat later; this will be noted in 11 summer programs offered by Middlebury M.A. in English, which is a prerequisite for the the application materials. As Bread Loaf is College. There is no graduate program in degree. Students choose a field of concentra- especially committed to increasing English offered during the regular academic tion in which most or all of their course work diversity in its community, minority year. is done. A field of concentration may be a applications are encouraged. period such as the Renaissance, a genre such as the novel, or a methodology such as literary FINANCIAL AID DEGREE AND NONDEGREE and cultural theory, or writing theory and PROGRAMS pedagogy. No thesis is required. In the final Financial aid is available in the form of grants summer a student must pass a comprehensive and/or work aid. The aid is awarded on the The Master of Arts (M.A.) Degree examination covering his or her field of basis of financial need and scholastic achieve- The M.A. program is limited to highly quali- concentrationT.h e program is limited to ment on a first-come, first-served basis. fied candidates who hold a bachelor’s degree highly qualified candidates. Requests for aid should be made when the from an accredited college. Students can attend application form is submitted to the school; any of the five Bread Loaf campuses, but at Continuing Graduate Education all pertinent forms and information will be least one summer must be spent in residence Teachers who have their master’s degrees or sent to applicants as soon as they become at the home campus in Vermont.T o earn the others who have at least a baccalaureate degree available. For more information and down- M.A., students must successfully complete 10 may enroll for a summer as nondegree students loadable forms, visit the Office of Financial courses (10 units or 30 semester-hour credits); in continuing graduate education. Upon suc- Aid’s website at: no thesis is requiredT.h e normal summer cessful completion of this program, Middlebury www.middlebury.edu/oftices/finaid/breadloaf program consists of two courses, each meeting College will issue the student a Certificate in five hours a week; exceptional students may, Continuing Graduate Education. with permission after the first summer, take a This publication was printed on recycled paper and is recyclable. The Bread Loaf Programs appears in theatrical productions graduate program at the Each summer, the Bread Loaf during the summer. The Bread Universidad de Guadalajara in School of English assembles a Loaf campus is the site for an Mexico, offering courses in dedicated community of teachers extraordinarily varied educational Latin American, English, and U.S. and learners at each of its five experience. literature and film and a course campuses. Faculty members in second-language acquisition. drawn from many of the best The Program in Alaska Some homestays will be colleges and universities across Bread Loaf also offers a full pro- available for students who the country teach courses in the gram at the University of Alaska want to work on their Spanish study of literature and literary Southeast (UAS) in Juneau. UAS language skills. theory; the teaching of writing; is a site of spectacular beauty, creative writing; and acting and located between the Mendenhall BreadNet and the Bread Loaf , directing. Students follow courses Glaciér and the sea-waters of the Teacher Network of study leading to the Master of Alexander Archipelago. Courses One of the most exciting of Arts or Master of Letters degree at Bread Loat/Alaska take advan- Bread Loaf’s innovations has in EnglishT.h e emphasis at Bread tage of Juneau’s unique location, been the development of Loaf has always been upon close and several courses focus on the BreadNet, a national computer contact between teacher and literature and landscape of the network that links the classrooms student in an intensive six-week Pacific Northwest and on The Program at Oxford of Bread Loaf teachersT.h e pri- course of study. indigenous cultures. Bread Loaf also offers a summer mary goals of BreadNet are to program at Lincoln College, one perpetuate the Bread Loaf com- Students may attend any one of of the smallest and most beautiful munity throughout the year and the five Bread Loaf campuses. of the Oxford colleges, where to encourage collaboration students enroll in one two-unit among all Bread Loaf teachers seminar/tutorial for the session. Bread Loaf, Vermont and their classroomsA.l l Bread Courses are offered in the study Since 1920, the central location Loaf students, faculty, staff, and for these programs has been the of literature and literary theory graduates are invited to join. and the study of dramatic texts, campus situated in a strikingly beautiful setting in sight of Bread coupled with frequent trips to For more information Loaf Mountain in the Green dramatic productions in Stratford See the other side of this poster and London. Mountains of VermontT.h e for more information about the academic program benefits from Bread Loaf School. To receive an the on-site presence of a profes- The Program in Guadalajara, application and catalog, or to Mexico sional acting ensemble that visits learn about any special fellow- classrooms and, along with actors In summer 2004, Bread Loaf is ships, write or visit our Web site: drawn from the student body, opening a fifth campus and oO The Program in New Mexico Bread Loaf also offers courses at its campus at St. John’s College, nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Bread Loaf School of English Mountains in Santa Fe, New Freeman International Center Mexico. At Bread Loaf/New Middlebury College Mexico special emphasis is placed Middlebury VT 05753 upon such subjects as American Telephone: 802-443-5418 Indian literature, American Fax: 802-443-2060 Hispanic literature, and writing E-mail: of the Southwest. [email protected] http://www.middlebury.edu/blse Bread Loaf campus photography by Edward Brown.

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