Creative Writing Students may take undergraduate courses at the beginning and advanced levels in fiction, poetry, and other forms of writing. The Creative Writing Program is run by the English Department. Outside of the classroom, student writing of various kinds is published regularly in the Lullwater Review , The Phoenix , The Edge , The Fever , The Fire This Time , and The Spoke . These publications are more fully explained in our publications section. Public readings of fiction and poetry written by students are sponsored by the Stipe Society and other groups.
Film is the public literature and graphic art of our time.
In the same way that we should distinguish poetry from advertising copy and post-impressionist painting from soup labels, we should be able to distinguish good cinema from bad, and the truly serious film from the merely exciting, sensuous, or novel. Film is a contemporary language form whose presence is pervasive, though we have traditionally treated this language as a medium so ephemeral as to deserve contempt or so mysterious as to defy comprehension. The Film Studies Program seeks to correct these cultural oversights by leading the student through progressive stages of encounter toward a level of criticism associated with concentrations in more traditional humanities disciplines. Dance The opportunities in dance at Emory College are diverse and rich, stimulating mind and body alike. Emphasis is placed on performance and choreography, based on the primary tenets of modern dance, which value individualism, innovation, and interdisciplinary approaches to the arts.