Bread Loaf 100+ Remote Tutorial Descriptions
This summer (June 21-July 30) we will be offering new and improved versions of the remote tutorials that we piloted last summer and revised in light of feedback from our 2020 participants. While we have maintained the essential feature – close and intensive mentoring of student work – that faculty and students prized in 2020, we have also refined the tutorial structure to better meet the needs of all students. New and returning students are eligible to enroll in either tutorial option.
Advanced Writing Tutorial
3 students per tutorial
2 units
Tuition $6325
The Advanced Writing Tutorial will provide a unique opportunity for students to pursue sustained critical, creative, and pedagogical projects and to hone their skills as writers and thinkers under the close mentorship of a Bread Loaf faculty member. Projects should be substantial: the equivalent in scope and originality of a critical essay, portfolio or chapbook, full-length play, or long-form narrative. For pedagogical projects, examples of practice, lesson plans, or curricular units should be coupled to some form of critical or creative analysis.
New this year: projects will be grounded on readings or other materials that faculty have set as the tutorial’s focus. That focus – on an author, a topic, a limited number of texts or genres – will determine for which distributional group or groups the AWT will count. We will publish a full list of available tutorials well in advance of tutorial registration. That list will provide a description of the tutorial’s focus as well as a short list of texts that students will need to purchase and read in advance of the session.
Faculty will be in touch with their tutorial group before the session begins to set meeting times convenient for all participants. Students should expect to meet with their faculty mentor, in individual or group meetings, for roughly 5 hours per week and to spend an additional 10 hours per week or more on their own tutorial projects.
Tutorial in Critical Writing
5 students per tutorial
1 unit in Group 1 (Writing, Pedagogy, and Literacy)
Tuition $3163
The Tutorial in Critical Writing offers students an opportunity to sharpen their skills and creativity as critical writers. Writing assignments, set by the faculty mentor, will give students practice in strategies for launching and sustaining a successful critical inquiry – among them, developing a personal voice; setting research questions; establishing the argument’s frame; integrating close readings, research, and other materials into the exposition; and building powerful sentences, paragraphs, and transitions.
Faculty will be in touch with their tutorial group before the session begins to set meeting times convenient for all participants. Students should expect to meet with their faculty mentor, in individual or group meetings, for roughly 2.5 hours per week and to spend an additional 5 hours per week or more on their writing.