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Article: Creative writing, a degree without clear career track
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1997
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Professional and trade schools (business, engineering, law,
appliance repair, medicine, to name just a few) are judged on their
ability to turn out qualified, employable workers who will achieve
some appreciable level of success in their fields. If one could do
just as well without going to school, why bother?
Art schools and creative writing programs, on the other hand,
don't promote themselves on the basis of the success rate of their
graduates in becoming, say, self-supporting poets: The numbers would
be embarrassingly low.
Instead, they tend to define their goals more modestly. "Our
main obligation here," says Joanna Leake, director of the creative
writing master of fine arts program ...