Saturday, June 03, 2006

After many hours at the computer, I can tell you the following:

There are 56 ALA-accredited LIS programs (American Library Association, Library and Information Science). The breakdown, by location:

1 Alabama, 1 Arizona, 2 California, 1 Colorado, 1 Connecticut, 1 D.C., 2 Florida, 1 Hawaii, 2 Illinois, 1 Indiana, 1 Iowa, 1 Kansas, 1 Kentucky, 1 Louisiana, 1 Maryland, 1 Massachusetts, 2 Michigan, 1 Mississippi, 1 Missouri, 1 New Jersey, 7 New York, 3 North Carolina, 1 Ohio, 1 Oklahoma, 3 Pennsylvania, 1 Puerto Rico, 1 Rhode Island, 1 South Carolina, 1 Tennessee, 3 Texas, 1 Washington, 2 Wisconsin, 7 Canada.

So 7 are in Canada, which is appealing, but only to a point. 23 are in states that I cannot, at the moment, see myself moving to voluntarily. 2 are on islands (Puerto Rico and Hawaii), which, while nice, seem a bit unrealistic. 24 are in states I could actually consider moving to after I graduate.

As far as dramaturgy goes... I haven't found very many graduate-level theatre programs that allow you to focus on it. The ones I have found: University of Iowa, Virginia Commonwealth University, UMass at Amherst, Stony Brook University, Brooklyn College of CUNY (City University of NY), Yale, and Columbia. UMKC (U of Missouri, Kansas City), WashU, Miami University of Ohio, and Hunter College of CUNY seem to have general M.A. programs that at least mention dramaturgy specifically.

No matter what, I'm not going to grad school right away. The idea of theatre apprenticeships - namely ones focused on literary management - is leading the pack of possible post-grad plans, along with a possible post-bacculaurate position at the library here at Swat.

However, the possibility of becoming a hermit and living in a hut in the Crum also sounds pretty appealing. It wouldn't require me to take the GRE or become fluent in another language, at the very least.

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