148:"The Kootenay School of Writing is a continuation of the Writing Program of David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, B.C., closed by order of the Social Credit government in May 1984. At DTUC, the Writing Program offered a broad interdisciplinary spectrum of courses, providing students with the usual seminars in prose, poetry and scriptwriting, as well as instruction in manuscript preparation, copyediting, book and magazine production, layout, design, typesetting, word processing, marketing, journalism, and interaction with artists in many other disciplines.
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