Joan, thanks for the article–ah, if only higher ed would embrace arts-based learning. I see it nowhere outside the performing and visual arts. Literature majors for the most part do not even require any creative writing. I tell all my students to take at least one, if not two or three or four, arts-intensive courses every semester. They look at me as though I’ve gone mad–”It’s not practical” they say, or “My parents would kill me,” or “I can’t complete my major(s) if I do that.”