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Class number:
3253
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Title: Who Are Your People? |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 8:30AM-9:45AM, MC - 305 |
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Instructor(s): Heredia, Alejandro |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Arts Requirement |
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Note: 7 seats reserved for first-years, 6 seats for sophomores, 1 for juniors and 1 for seniors |
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Note: For English majors, this course fulfills the requirement of a lower-level elective. |
Course Description:
This course explores the intersection between writing and community building. Students will read fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by writers like June Jordan, Toni Morrison, Edwidge Danticat, and others to explore nuanced literary representations of community, (un) belonging, and collectivity. Students will be expected to write in their chosen genre to explore questions like: Who are your people? What are a writer's responsibilities to collective struggle? What forms, techniques, and research practices can lend a writer adequate tools to write about communities? This is a generative creative writing course, and class meetings will take the form of writing exercises, workshop, group activities, and presentations. |