Course Descriptions
Spring Quarter
| Dept |
Course No and Title |
Instructor |
|---|
| LIT JRN (S26) | 20 INTR LIT JOURNALISM | PIERSON, P. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 21 REPORTING LIT JOURN | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 100 ADVANCED REPORTING | DEPAUL, A. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 101BW NARRATIVE WRITING | SIEGEL, B. |
| Narrative writing provides the foundation for much of what we call literary journalism. Writers in this field want to tell stories. They want to bring to nonfiction the sense of inner life usually found only in novels. How to write nonfiction prose that adopts the aims and techniques of the finest fiction? How to tell tales that read as if they were nonfiction short stories? These will be the central questions students in this class face. Students will look to the masters for models—nonfiction writers such as Tom French, Gary Smith and Michael Paterniti. Students will also do a good deal of their own narrative writing. This course is an advanced writing workshop: Students will regularly share their work with classmates in a constructive process of peer-review, then revise based on that feedback. By the end of the quarter, students will have produced a character sketch and a major example of narrative writing. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 101BW CULTURAL FEAST | STAFF |
| Just as good food is never about mere nourishment, good food writing is never solely about what we consume. It is about passion and comfort, art and commerce, geography and culture; it is about how we live and what we love and why. This workshop will focus on stories that explore the rich gastronomic landscape of Southern California. Students will be encouraged to think beyond flavors and restaurants, and instead to view food through the prism of family, ethnicity, immigration, tradition, ethics, and identity—in short, the stuff of literary journalism. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 101BW REPORTED ESSAY | HAYASAKI, E. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 103 JUSTICE & INJUSTICE | CORWIN, M. |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 103 PODCASTING LITJRN | GOFFARD, C. |
| Podcasts in Literary Journalism is a lecture class that will explore the field of podcasting. We will study the evolution of the medium and debate its ethics. We will study a wide variety of audio work, from true-crime narratives to cultural essays to interview shows, from the journalistically serious to the whimsical and goofy. We will meet podcast creators and learn the realities of making a living in the industry. Every student will be responsible for producing an original, reported 5-10 minute podcast segment by the end of the quarter. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
| LIT JRN (S26) | 199 INDEPENDENT STUDY | STAFF |
| No detailed description available. |
