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Examples of Student Work:
Book Publication:
Education As Emancipation: Women On Welfare Speak Out. At a time when new welfare reform legislation is threatening single mothers on welfare who are currently in college programs seeking degrees and self-sufficiency, Education As Emancipation: Women On Welfare Speak Out was written and produced by students in the Social Action Writing class.
Done in collaboration with the EOPS Program at Monterey Peninsula College, CSUMB's creative writing students researched welfare reform, interviewed EOPS students at MPC, took their photographs, and wrote stories and poems. The result is a book of lived experiences and perspectives of women on welfare. It is available to educate the community and promote civic dialogue, placing the women most affected by welfare reform at the center of the discussion. To order, call 831.883.1062.
Senior Capstone Creative Production:
"Choctaw: Retracing the Steps of My Heritage,"
by Julie Bliss
...I see yarn spooled around her finger
she weaves it through itself
into the shawl I have only seen
in decaying photographs
I carry pictures in ashes
of Mary who is swollen in death
who is reborn in my palm
--Julie Bliss, from "Ashes to Life"
Julie Bliss integrates creative writing and photography with
the study of her Native American history, literature, and culture,
and retrieves lost stories of her Choctaw ancestors.
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The Institute for Human Communication
California State University Monterey Bay