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LIT 179EWriting for Transformation

5 creditsGE PR-CUndergraduateStudent Option

Introductory cross-genre writing workshop exploring the social and political engagements of a wide array of BIPOC authors’ work. In interactive lectures and small group discussion,students analyze authors’ use of craft and form to inspire creation of our own poetry, flash nonfiction, and flash fiction. Course considers how authors thematize family, community, language, activism, love, culture, health, state and structural violence, relations with our natural environment, and more.

Prerequisites

Enrollment is restricted to declared and proposed literature and critical race and ethnic studies majors, literature minors, and Black studies minors.

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When it runs

Winter 2027Open Winter 2027

SectionTypeWhenWhereInstructorSeats
01Seminar
Mon Wed 7:10pm–8:45pm
Thu 5:20pm–6:55pm
TBA, Humn Lecture HallM. CasumbalOpen 0/30

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