Requirements

Minor

The Interdisciplinary Writing minor is a five-course program consisting of one required 200-level core class (WRD 295) and four electives, described as follows. 

Note: No more than three courses from one department can be counted towards the minor.

Required Course

WRD 295

Argument and Rhetoric Across the Disciplines

4 units

Electives

The below courses are offered regularly in the Interdisciplinary minor, though some may not be offered every year. Check Course Counts for the available courses each semester.

AMST 265/WRD 265	Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change	4 units
ARTS 301	Writing Art and Writing as Art	4 units
BLST 240	Black Women Write Social Justice	4 units
CTSJ 215	Language and Power	4 units
ENGL 280	Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction Writing	4 units
ENGL 281	Creative Writing: Poetry	4 units
ENGL 290	Introduction to Literary Methods	4 units
ENGL 380	Creative Writing: Advance Fiction Writing	4 units
ENGL 382	Advanced Creative Writing	4 units
FREN 350	Theory and Practice of Translation (Thème et Version)	4 units
MAC 220	Introduction to Screenwriting and Narrative Practices	4 units
MAC 222	Creating and Writing Television/Streaming Series	4 units
MAC 320	Advanced Screenwriting and Narrative Practices	4 units
THEA 201	Voices in American Theater	4 units
THEA 204	Comedy and Social Change	4 units
THEA 380	Playwriting	4 units
WRD 235	Visual Rhetoric: Communication through Pictures and/or Words	4 units
WRD 250	Topics in Writing with the Community: Writing and the Los Angeles Experience	4 units
WRD 275	Popular Science Writing	4 units
WRD 285	Principles of Journalism I: Covering News Across Media	4 units
WRD 286	Principles of Journalism II: Narrative Nonfiction: True Stories Told Well	4 units
WRD 287	Rhetorical Fault Lines: Journalism, Persuasion, Propaganda	4 units
WRD 301	Creative Nonfiction	4 units
WRD 395	Theory and Pedagogy of Writing	2 units

Students may also apply MAC 250 as an elective for the Interdisciplinary Writing minor if they have enrolled in the "The Video Essay" section of the course.

Students may also apply CTSJ 395 as an elective for the Interdisciplinary Writing minor if they have enrolled in the "Writing Trauma" section of the course.