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Poets & Writers: The School of COmmunications Design offers an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts that encourages students to make their work public. In addition to writing workshops and classes, students can choose courses in book arts, typographic design, and small press publishing, all including instruction in the production of broadsides, chapbooks, and print and electronic journals. Students present their final writing projects in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction as self-designed and self-produced print or electronic publications.
 
 

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MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts
Final PLORK Party!
UB Student Center 5th floor multipurpose room
May 9, 2008, 7 p.m.
    The 2008 MFA/CWPA graduating class invites you to join them to view and purchase their books, created as their final projects.

UB's Literary Magazine, Welter
Publication Party
UB Student Center 5th floor multipurpose room
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 7 - 9 p.m.
    Join the staff of Welter 2008 and contributors as they present their great issue of this annual journal.

MA in Publication Design
Portfolio Open House
UB Student Center 5th floor multipurpose room
Monday, May 19, 2008, 6 - 8 p.m.
    The 2008 MA in PubDesign graduating class invites you to join them to view their final projects.

Visual Linguistics, by Whitney Sherman
UB Student Center Gallery
March 11 - May 25, 2008
    You are invited to join us for an opening reception in the Student Center multipurpose room, opposite the Gallery, on Tuesday, March 11, from 8 to 10 p.m.

Business-Design Panel Discussion
    UB's Ampersand Institute for Words & Images is partnering with the Baltimore Chapter of AIGA for three panel discussions on the link between business and design. You will never get a better opportunity to hear this kind of important career information or to network with the best of the local design community. There will be a small reception in the 5th floor Student Center Multipurpose Room beginning at 5 pm and the discussion begins at 6 pm in the Student Center Theatre. Please RSVP via e-mail to Jaye Crooks at jcrooks@ubalt.edu.
  • Wednesday, Feb. 20
    Discussion: Marketing and branding a design business. Panelists: Brenda Foster, partner, GCF, and Aaron Moore, Creative Director, Orange Element Design.
  • Wednesday, March 26
    Discussion: Intellectual Property concerns as well as taxes and financial matters. Panelists: Jim Astrachan, a lawyer who specializes in advertising and design issues, and JC Weiss, Clinical Assistant Professor, Merritt School of Business.
  • Wednesday, April 30
    Discussion: Pricing design work and building professional relationships. Panelists: Dave Plunkert, founding partner, Spur design LLC, and Joe Wagner, director of Marketing, Whitmore Group.

The Spring 2008 Reading Series
    Each semester, the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts of the University of Baltimore's School of Communications Design presents readings by visiting and local writers. The series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council.
    This semester's events include an Editor's Panel, a Poetry Book Signing with Joseph Harrison and Gregg Williamson, a reading by faculty members Jane Delury and Marion Winik, and a special presentation by performance poet Patricia Smith.
    See the schedule for the Spring 2008 Reading Series

MFA in Creative Writing named one of "Nine Distinctive Programs"
    In its November/December 2007 issue, Poets & Writers named UB's MFA program in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts as one nine "distinctive" MFA programs in the country. Poets & Writers is considered to be one of the premier magazines for professional writers. View article as a PDF.

CorpComm Participation Events
    Before you graduate as a Corporate Communication major, you must attend five approved events. (Note: This policy does not apply to students who began the major before Fall, 2000.) For more information on this policy, download this PDF and check the Participation Events Calendar.

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