This is a writing workshop in which students write about the arts and analyze a broad range of arts commentary in influential national media. Performance and visual arts, including video, film, dance, and music, are the focus of the reviews and articles. The workshop consists of open critiques of individual student writing in class; group projects in which the class attends and writes about an event; discussion and reports on selected critics; in-class collaborative projects; and visits to galleries and performance events. The course is organized around journalistic and literary traditions of arts writing, not academic criticism or theory. This class is not open to first-year students.