June 17- July 30, 2008
INFORMATION FOR SUMMER 2008
2008 Course Listing | 2008 Faculty Listing
UNCA campus (left) and a view of the city of Asheville (right).
Bread Loaf offers courses at the University of North Carolina in Asheville, in sight of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Bread Loaf in North Carolina enrolls approximately 90 students, and offers a curriculum similar to those offered at the other campuses, but with a special emphasis in Southern literature and African American literature. There is also be a program of visiting lecturers and writers.
Students are lodged in single and double rooms on the UNCA campus, which is located about a mile north of downtown Asheville. Students living on campus take their meals together in the UNCA Dining Hall.
Bread Loaf students have full access to UNCA's Ramsey Library, its state-of-the-art Health and Fitness Center, and other university facilities. During the summer months UNCA offers a wide range of lectures, concerts, and cultural events; these events will be open to Bread Loaf students.
Asheville is a small city of around 75,000. It is both intensely regional and strikingly cosmopolitan—regional in being a center for local Appalachian arts and country and bluegrass music, cosmopolitan for so small a southern city in its varied ethnic restaurants and ubiquitous sidewalk cafes. It is an artistic city, with a sizable counter-cultural population. It is a city very frequently listed in "most livable American cities" profiles. Students who enjoy outdoor activities will be able to go hiking, mountain climbing, and whitewater rafting in the more than million acres of nearby national parks and forests along the Blue Ridge Parkway and in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and other parks and national forests; students can walk, run, and bike in the Bent Creek area of Pisgah National Forest, just minutes from the UNCA campus. Just outside Asheville is the Biltmore Estate. Built in the early years of the twentieth century and modeled upon a French chateau, Biltmore is the largest private residence in the U.S. Built by a member of the Vanderbilt family, it is a fascinating example of the uses of American wealth in the world of Henry James, Edith Wharton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.