Creative Writing & Social Action, Minor

This minor offers you an opportunity to explore your interests in creative writing and social action, and to tailor your minor curriculum to your major with a range of creative writing class offerings. You acquire the creative, critical, visual, and cultural tools necessary to write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and life stories.

Required Courses

Please note: Twelve of the units taken to complete a minor (6 of which are upper division) may not be used in fulfillment of other minors, concentrations, or major requirements.

Complete one of the following introductory-level courses:
HCOM 330 - Intro Creative Writing Units: 4
HCOM 339S - Creative Writing and Service Learning Units: 5
After completing one of the introductory courses above, complete 12 units from the following courses:
HCOM 332 - Poetry Writing Workshop Units: 4
HCOM 333 - Women’s Writing Workshop Units: 4
HCOM 334 - Fiction/Creative NonFiction Writing Units: 4
HCOM 341 - Poetry & Pop Culture Units: 4
HCOM 430 - Literary Journal Publication Units: 2
HCOM 432 - Social Action Writing Units: 4
HCOM 432S - Social Action Writing Units: 5
HCOM 433 - Life Histories & Creative Narrative Units: 4
HCOM 434 - Creative Publishing and Critical Storytelling Units: 4
HCOM 439 - Page to Stage Units: 2

Learning Outcomes

LO 1: Basic Competency in Creative Writing

Students demonstrate basic skill in the craft of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction.

LO 2: Production and Presentation of an Art Project

Students produce a portfolio of social action poems and stories that actively responds to a public issue, and present it to a diverse public audience.

LO: 3 Understanding of Social, Cultural, Historical, and Political Contexts

Students demonstrate informed and ethical reflection on a significant social issue out of which their social action writing emerges.