Minor Requirements
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.
COURSEWORK
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.
| ARTS 301 | Writing Art and Writing As Art | 4 units |
| CTSJ 215/WRD 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 | Narrative Practices | 4 units |
| MAC 320 | Advanced Narrative Practices | 4 units |
| THEA 201 | Alternative Voices in American Theater | 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 265/AMST 265 | Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change | 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 |