DEPTH CONCENTRATIONS

7) CREATIVE WRITING AND SOCIAL ACTION CONCENTRATION

The Creative Writing and Social Action Concentration offers students the opportunity to pursue in-depth studies in creative writing and social action. The Concentration teaches writing as representation, the bricks of this multicultural house we're building. It braids together multiple threads:

Through this concentration, students have the opportunity to learn:

• Depth and complexity in creative writing.
• Representation: the opportunity for students to witness their lives and the lives of their communities, claiming voice and space in poems and stories and narratives.
• Skill in breaking silences and writing for social action.
• Interdisciplinarity with visual art.
• Interdisciplinarity with humanities and/or social sciences. e.g. writing and culture/heritage; writing and environment; writing and health/human services.
• Technology and writing: E-Zines, digital story-telling.
• Active participation in the community.
  

View the Creative Writing and Social Action website

Prerequisites:

For HCOM Transfer Majors:

Culture and Equity ULR
MLO 5
MLO 6
MLO 8

For HCOM Non-Transfer Majors:

Creative and Artistic Expression ULR

Democratic Participation ULR
ENGCOM ULR
Culture and Equity ULR
MLO 5
MLO 6
MLO 8- Satisfied by HCOM 330, 331 or 339S

CREATIVE WRITING AND SOCIAL ACTION CONCENTRATION COURSES:

PATHWAY 1:
Three learning experiences from:

HCOM 332: Poetry Writing Workshop
HCOM 333: Women's Writing Workshop
HCOM 334: Fiction Writing Workshop
HCOM 432 or 432 S: Social Action Writing
HCOM 433: Life Stories and Life Writing

PATHWAY 2:
Two from above list and one from:

HCOM 327: Survey of American Literature

HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories
HCOM 329: Autobiografías
HCOM 336: Poetry and Gender: Voices of Our Time

HCOM 337: Women's Literature
HCOM 350 or 350S:Oral History and Community Memory
*Or one class that provides background in the area of the student's thematic social action choice.

Advisor:

Frances Payne Adler