WRITING X 424.21E - Storytelling for Social Justice
Course Description
Well-told, new narratives can change the world. Living in a time of rising movements such as Black Lives Matter, MeToo, DACA/refugee and immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights and more, students are encouraged to uncover stories that are not included in our history textbooks. Through workshops, students gain access to pathways to explore personal history, family narratives and stories amidst their communities. Students read and produce compelling creative nonfiction—memoir, essays, literary journalism, blogging, audio/video recording, live performance and more—to share with larger audiences. Integral to the creation of new work is revision, peer feedback and literary work that serves as models. By the end of the course, students have begun a narrative in a format of their choice that they develop into a completed project in order to share with the larger community.
Course Outline
Craft your passion for justice through urgent stories that address pressing social issues in this course.
Course Outline
What you can learn:
- Identify urgent and important stories in your life and your community that only you can write
- Read published works that help you identify opportunity for your writing
- Develop work rooted in fact and experience while writing across genres and formats
- Spark new work you can develop into complete projects
Notes
Course may be taken to satisfy core (Beginning) units in the Creative Nonfiction Certificate Program, or as an elective in either the Fiction or Creative Nonfiction Certificate.
Applies Towards the Following Certificates
- Creative Writing : Electives
- Journalism : Required Courses
- Study Abroad at UCLA Program : Required