The Institute for Human Communication (HCOM) Creative Writing & Social Action Program Program Description Skills a Social Action Writer Needs Examples of Student Work Syllabi Creative Writing Faculty Other HCOM Faculty Home

Skills A Social Action Writer Needs: Creative Writing Craft Research Skills Knowledge of Cultural, Historical, Political, Social Context Cross-Cultural Communication Skills Community Involvement, Social Responsibility Interdisciplinarity: Creative Writing & Visual Arts/Environment/Health, etc. Technology Craft: Creative Writing and Social Action classes Introduction to Creative Writing: Writer As Witness Creative Writing and Visual Art Chicana/o Fiction Writing Workshop Poetry Writing Workshop Fiction Writing Workshop Women's Writing Workshop Social Action Writing Research Opportunities: Culture & Communication Courses Offered Oral History and Community Memory Free Speech and Social Responsibility 20th Century Narratives of American Immigration African American Narratives Latina Life Stories American Ethnic Literatures and Cultures Chicano Life and History Chicana Experiences Womanist Theory Women's Literature Shakespeare and Post-Colonial Interpretations Whose America? Controversies in U.S. History Multicultural History in the New Media Classroom Relational Ethics Cooperative Argumentation Rhetoric of Identity Women and the Law Sexuality and the Law Media Ethics Investigative Reporting Technology/Interdisciplinarity: Electronic Magazines Electronic magazines at: http://hcom.monterey.edu/showcase/ezines Writer As Witness: "Beyond the Page" Visual Art and Creative Writing: "Free Food For Thought" Breaking The Frames of Silence" Silencios de la Luz: A Fruitful Darkness" Social Action Art Exhibition at http://monterey.edu/events/matriot "A Matriot's Dream: Health Care for All" Home - Program Description - Skills a Social Action Writer Needs - Examples of Student work - Syllabi - Creative Writing Faculty - Other HCOM Faculty Design by: Yael Maayani, yaelian@ix.netcom.com The Institute for Human Communication California State University Monterey Bay