Literature

LIT 179E Writing for Transformation

Introductory cross-genre writing workshop exploring the social and political engagements of a wide array of BIPOC authors’ work. In interactive lectures and small group discussion,students analyze authors’ use of craft and form to inspire creation of our own poetry, flash nonfiction, and flash fiction. Course considers how authors thematize family, community, language, activism, love, culture, health, state and structural violence, relations with our natural environment, and more.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to declared and proposed literature and critical race and ethnic studies majors, literature minors, and Black studies minors.

Credits

5

General Education Code

PR-C

Quarter offered

Spring

Instructor

Melissa Casumbal

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Also offered as

CRES 179E

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to declared and proposed literature and critical race and ethnic studies majors, literature minors, and Black studies minors.