3 courses with the subject CRA, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CRA 3700Creative Arts Career Prep2
In this course, students focus on the principles, methods, and practices of achieving career goals. Coursework emphasizes issues involved with being a professional artist: the process of self-reflection, exploration of career opportunities, identification of skills and strengths, recognition of identity in the workplace, resume and cover letter development, website design, interviewing, networking, and professionalism. Students utilize their internship placement experiences to reflect upon their learning and growth as they draw correlations between their internship experiences and their skills, values, academic learning, personal and professional goals, creativity, and civic identity. Furthermore, students gain insight into career development competencies and other professional development strategies. Students must have completed their major's internship requirements, or be in the process of completing their major's internship requirements during the concurrent semester.
This pre-capstone course supports upper-level Creative Arts students in pursuing research that underlies or informs their creative production and is organized around individual research plans developed specifically for each student project. Studying the work of established artists, musicians, and writers, students in this course will detect the underpinning of research in existing creative work and then develop research projects that will fuel their own creative production. Such research projects draw mainly on library and/or field research but may also include experimental field or studio research. Students will pursue these projects through individual research, which may include archival and field work as well as interviews; current course work in other disciplines; and the assistance of librarians and other faculty or experts. Processes and Theories of Revision. For Music majors, junior or senior standing.
For Art majors, first-semester senior standing. For Creative Writing majors, WRI 2210
CRA 4800Senior Project4
This course offers guidance to senior Creative Arts students as they complete their senior projects, according to the specific requirements of their individual programs. For Art majors, the senior project is an exhibition presenting quality examples of their creative work with an accompanying artist statement; for Creative Writing majors, the senior project is a chapbook-length writing project and a public reading; for Music majors, the senior project is a senior recital and a creative project (recording, transcriptions, teaching module, etc.) that connects with their pre-Capstone research paper. Students will follow and create production, rehearsal, and revision schedules to organize and refine their projects and will learn from their peers across the creative arts as they review works-in-progress together. Completed work will culminate in an exhibition in the Elizabeth Holden Gallery, a concert in Williams Recital Hall, or a Senior Reading.
