How much time does a workshop take up?
We estimate that each workshop takes a student roughly five to seven hours per week in reading and participating in online discussion (depending to some degree on individual reading and typing speed). This does not include personal writing time, which varies from student to student. In a fiction workshop, for example, students might be expected to produce four to six original pieces of work (chapters of a novel, or short stories) during the course of the academic year, or roughly one every six weeks. Other genres have different expectations, but the amount of writing time is comparable. Courses (other than the residency) follow the academic year (September through April), which provides for 26 workshop meetings. Students who have taken a full-time load (3 6-credit workshops) have found the workload to be quite heavy; we recommend that students with work or family commitments work on a part-time basis. As with the residential program, we assume that students studying full time will spen
