PRWR 6800:Careers in the Literary Arts

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to the MAPW program or permission of the graduate program director.
The first half of the course will survey components that make up the literature field and introduce the student to the management concerns in selected components. The survey will inform the student about professional and organization infrastructures that support the literary arts in the United States and give the student theoretical and practical knowledge concerning arts management. The second half of the course will focus on the writer’s personal management. Grantsmanship and fellowship writing as well as submissions-and-publications procedures, literary promotions, and time management will be discussed.