All English majors, lit or writing, were invited to attend to the focus group and offer their thoughts on some pressing issues in the department: Whether or not to collapse the Journalism writing track in with the Creative Non-Fiction track for one program of study, or to keep Journalism separate.
Three English majors attended the discussion, plus one non-major (two of the student participants were Pitt Newsers). Dr. David Bartholomae, who is serving in his last year as department chair, led the focus group.
We're not sure where the department stands on the issue after the meeting, and we're still forming our opinions, too.
No matter, it looks like there's going to be some serious consideration on the Fifth Floor of the Cathedral as to what a "Non-fiction writing" program should be, and if it's valuable to keep around a liberal arts-based Journalism course that's neither J-school nor pre-professional development.
We'll have more on the fate of the English department as the story develops ...
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