The popularity of Richard Florida's work has led to a zealous implementation of his creative class thesis by many city officials, policymakers, and urban planners.
While students seeking academic careers are attractive — indicate that interest on the application — graduate admissions panels are mainly "looking at your ability to produce a piece of creative work: a dissertation or a thesis".
It advanced for the first time the express thesis that "Creative children's literature must be a work of art"; Wolgast resolutely decried nationalistic and didactic deformations.
In case you think I'm exaggerating, I have just supervised a doctoral thesis in creative writing: this consists in the submission of a novel written by the candidate, together with a 35,000-word dissertation on the themes explored by that novel.
Seniors participate in the "Senior Study," a program that includes a research thesis or creative project under the personalized guidance of an advisor.
She studied art history and arts administration as an undergrad at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and pursued a master's in art history at Hunter, but accepted the job at Creative Time before writing her thesis.
But the bigger question is: does this thesis show an original, creative historian at work?
The student must commit to six months at least of sustained work, must give up the egotism that lights on madly ambitious thesis topics and arrogantly "creative" methods, and must practise instead a form of "academic humility".
Steve has an MFA in Creative Writing from NYU, where his thesis advisor was E.L. Doctorow, and received the James Thurber Award for editing and publishing The Onion's Our Dumb Century.
He took an MA in creative writing at the University of Iowa and his thesis, based on his army experiences, was published as the novel One to Count Cadence in 1969.
