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Core Coursework
Writing Workshop
This coursework emphasizes peer and instructor feedback on original creative writing and performance in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, play/screenwriting and nonfiction. Critical reading and writing complement the creative work. Workshops are repeatable for elective credit with change in content. Sample classes that would meet this core requirement:
- Many Voices: Study in Short Fiction
- Writing Poetry: Imagination, Craft, Audience
- Telling Stories: An Introduction to Live Art
- Writing for Stage and Screen
Art Studio
The focus of the coursework is peer and instructor feedback on original visual and performance art in a variety of areas, including painting, drawing, sculpture/ceramics, theatre, photography, printmaking and dance. Critical reading and writing complement creative work. Studios are repeatable for elective credit with change in content. Sample classes that would meet this core requirement:
- Clay Handbuilding
- Drawing the Still Life and the Landscape
- Painting
- Collage
- Introduction to Vocal Improvisation
- Theatre classes through Antioch's partnership with Freehold Theatre Lab
Literary and Art History Seminars
These courses combine critical, theoretical and creative study focused on one or more of the following methods: period; genre/area; schools/movements; region; ethnic/postcolonial. Additional special topics in literary/art criticism and history will be offered as well. Three seminars total; cross-disciplinary study is required (e.g., two literary and one art history seminar). Sample classes that would meet this core requirement:
- Border Crossings: A Multicultural Journey Through Film and Literature
- Expressionist Drama and Theatre of the Absurd
- Ecoliterature: Narrative and Ecological Conflict
- Northwest Native American Art
- Contemporary Women Writers
- Narratives of Resistance
- Literature of Displacement
- Architecture as if Life Matters: Green Building Across Culture
Seminar in Professional Skills
Seminars and practica in the arts and literature focused on publishing/editing and curating/installation include features such as magazine production, art exhibition, film showings, performances, reflective practica, guest writer/artist series and portfolio construction.
Sample Electives
- Postcolonial Fiction and Drama
- Birds in the Imagination and in the Field
- Music of the Celtic Peoples
- Gothic and Romantic Visions of Horror and Beauty
- Inquiring with the Mind of the Body: Making an Art of Wilderness and Civilization
- The Postmodern Novel: Wit, Relativity and Chaos
- History and Image of the American Family
- Outsider and Alternative Art
- Epic Mythology as History of Civilization
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An acting class at Freehold Theatre Lab
Sample Community/Field-based Learning Experiences
- Complete a publication practicum with KNOCK, Antioch's literary journal
- Apprentice with a local artist, writer or filmmaker
- Assist with teaching a studio ceramics course
- Help install an art show
- Organize a lecture series at Hugo House
- Perform in a production of "The Vagina Monologues"
- Complete a practicum with a street theatre troupe
Sample Synthesis Projects
- Complete a creative project such as a portfolio of writing or art, a film/video, etc.
- Write a critical thesis
- Guest edit a special edition of a journal
- Design the logo, letterhead, poster, website etc. for an event
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