We then notify people by mid-August if space has become available. Advising is available to help you use your time before admission wisely, or to help you fulfill your entrance requirements. The readings, writing and preparation for seminar and fieldwork will require a minimum of 20 hours per week in addition to the monthly Saturday seminars and the weekly on-line seminars. Given the full schedule that you will have, the key will be careful budgeting of time and learning how not to procrastinate. The core courses are designed to cover a variety of issues and angles on a common theme, moving from the personal to the global.
Fieldwork is the hands-on part of the program.
It is your opportunity to tackle issues of particular interest to you and bring your own experience to bear on the theoretical problems posed by the courses. Faculty will work with you to design projects that help you learn to analyze and report on the world around you. In a word, yes. There are weekly computer postings, autobiographical and journal writings, synthesizing papers, and reports on fieldwork, among other assignments. A writing tutor will be available throughout the first course and thereafter as needed.