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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to help participants get started and continue working independently on a writing project. The focus is on various elements of fiction - character, action, story shape, theme, language, style - and on exploring the choices one makes as a writer. Students read and critique one another's work-inprogress in a workshop-style setting. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In this writing workshop, students develop the language skills poetry demands: the various uses of figurative language, the interplay of sound and rhythm, and the avoidance of clichés. Students learn how to give constructive criticism and how to apply it to their own poems. Along with writing poetry, students read theoretical essays and examine the work of other poets. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
In this class students immerse themselves in the art of creative non-fiction as a means to explore and investigate the city of Los Angeles. Through in-class and at-home writing exercises, text-experiments, and urban investigations, students generate writing about Los Angeles, imaginatively mapping both their own neighborhoods and communities, as well as communities not their own. The emphasis is on creating alternative cartographies and new visions of LA for the 21st century, and in the process coming up with a vibrant re-thinking of the very notion of community, city, and the urban self. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the theory, meaning, conventions, and practical techniques of writing for social change. It is designed to be useful for those working in small profit or non-profit business, where a variety of writing projects must be done by the staff at hand, quickly, whether they consider themselves writers or not. The course examines the qualities of good writing that transcend any particular form: clear sentences, lively detail, smooth transitions, good story, etc. Assignments include practical applications of writing including the press release, letter to the editor, funding proposal, and grant reporting, and should include all the qualities of good, engaging writing. Students are encouraged to tailor their assignments to real world situations where they wish to use writing to support or spark positive social change. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
Confronting what most would consider an intractable contradiction, urban nature, the urban nature writer presses hard at the boundaries of our standard definitions of nature, particularly as it occurs in our cities. Through a series of urban walks, selected readings in urban ecocriticism, and close readings of the works of contemporary urban nature writers, students develop their own grammar and vocabulary for describing the urban ecosystem. The theory of hierarchical patch dynamics serves as a metaphorical overlay and template for seeing and describing the social, political, economic, and physical (those that are built and those that occur on their own) systems as they interact with and affect one another. Students discuss the key concepts of material and energy flows through various types of ecosystems, as a way of getting at some of the unintended consequences of radically altering those flows in the ways that urban ecosystems require. Students write essays based on the walks through which they acquire a sharpened gaze that moves easily between particular and universal, background and foreground. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
What is a play How does one write one Why would one want to Students learn the art of dramatic writing by experiencing first-hand how the written word comes to life from page to stage. The fundamental components of a play -- story, characters, dialog, theme, structure, tone -- are explored through discussion, writing exercises and reading assignments. Students are encouraged to develop their own personal voices by writing a one-act play. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews basic essay writing conventions and then focuses on more sophisticated strategies of academic writing, particularly analysis, argument, and a close examination of prose styles. The texture of prose is a major concern, as students analyze texts from a variety of disciplines. Students examine their own composing processes as they write, revise and edit two or three essays. This course may be taken two times for credit toward the degree. Prerequisite: With Permission of the Director of the Writing Center. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This class examines various theoretical approaches and paradigms of prose style, and explores strategies for writing a variety of different genres of creative nonfiction. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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3.00 Credits
This creative writing course explores cross-genre and experimental writing, writing beyond and between genres and fixed forms. The course is designed to push and subvert the traditional boundaries of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama, as well as to invent unheard of new forms. Students stretch their writing voices and strengthen their individual styles in imaginative new ways, taking their words into the twenty-first century. The course unfolds in an experimental laboratory-like space, with numerous in class and at home writing exercises, work-shopping of pieces and in-class textual analyses, all designed to clarify and deepen understanding of cross-genre writing, as well as to enable students to create their own dazzling genre mongrels. COMMUNICATIONS DOMAIN
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1.00 Credits
This is an experiential workshop designed to access fresh, innovative writing material by disrupting habitual patterns of movement in the body/mind. The class explores how, culturally and historically, we've come to view the body as a machine and how technology, speed and mechanization affect our creative writing process, our bodies and how we relate to others. Students investigate how breath, sound and fluid movement relieve stress and tension as well as counteract the debilitating repetitive linear motions that define the 21st century "body as machine" paradigm. No grade equivalent allowed. HUMANITIES AND COMMUNICATIONS DOMAINS
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