This course in writing about the arts and popular culture (interpreted broadly) is limited in enrollment and focuses on a semester-long project that each student defines in consultation with the instructor. The course will be run something like a group independent study, in which students pursue their specific, personal projects and share their work on an ongoing basis with the class as a whole. Ideally, students will informally serve as each other’s editors, sharing suggestions, sources, approaches and encouragement. Occasional meetings of the full group will concentrate on issues relevant to all aspects of arts-and-culture writing—including writing about the fine arts, popular culture, fashion, comedy, sports, or some other related topic—while meetings with individual students will focus and help realize the individual projects that will constitute the course’s main work. Writing produced in this course will typically be a lengthy feature (5,000+ words) of the sort that regularly appears in publications like The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine or Rolling Stone. Other approaches to the project, however, will certainly be considered. Readings for the course will be geared specifically to the interests of the students who have been selected, and will be drawn from relevant work that is appearing at that time in journalistic publications. Ideally, applicants will have already taken Writing about the Arts and Popular Culture with the instructor, but that is not a firm prerequisite and other students should absolutely feel free to contact the instructor for more information. Permission to enroll is required. Please send an email describing your interest to ADeCurtis@aol.com.