The Senior Seminar is designed for students who excel in a collaborative small-group environment (6-12 seniors) where they work together with other writers in a shared genre. In the Senior Seminar, students critique, complete, shape, and revise a portfolio of work in their primary genre culled from their previous writing courses. This seminar is community-based, as the class collaboratively selects critical and creative readings that relate specifically to its members' writing projects. In engagement with these readings, as well as student writing projects, the class examines issues of craft, form, content, and process. In addition to developing a final revised portfolio (30-40 pages for fiction), each student will submit a critical essay contextualizing her/his body of work. Must be enrolled in one of the following Classifications: Fifth Year or Senior. Must be a Literary Studies major (this is a standard restriction for all senior seminars across the college). Fiction - pre-req of LLSW 4000 Advanced Fiction minimum grade of C.