Minor in Community and Public Writing

Catalog Year: 2023-2024

Banner Code: LA-MINOR-CPW

This minor foregrounds the public (or social) nature of writing and reimagines writing as a tool for dialog across difference, inclusion, coalition-building, activism, and advocacy. Integrating reading and writing assignments with the opportunity to carry out writing and research of value to community-based initiatives (such as those advocated by nonprofit organizations, neighborhood activists, and community advocates), this minor opens for
undergraduate study how communities take shape around shared reading, writing, and “languaging” practices within local, national, and/or global material context.

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Minor Requirements

Total credits: 15

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Required Courses 

ENGH 380 Introduction to Writing and Rhetoric 3
ENGH 382 Rhetoric of the Essay 3
Total Credits 6

Electives

Select two courses from the following: 6
Introduction to Creative Writing (Mason Core)  
Advanced Fiction Writing Workshop  
Antiracism and Writing
 
Contemporary African American Literature  
Global Voices (Mason Core)  
Social Justice Consciousness and Action  
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Television  
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and TV
Research for Social Change  
Social Justice Education (Mason Core)  
Representations of Race (Mason Core)  
Genealogy of Black Feminist Thought  
Race, Class, and LGBTQ Communities  
Writing for the Environment
 
Environmental Communication  
Contemporary Health: Intersections in Science and Society (Mason Core)  
Business and Sustainability  
Environmental Justice (Mason Core)  
Non-Profit Writing
 
Writing for Public Relations  
RS: Writing Ethnography (Mason Core)  
Proposal Writing and Development  
Issues in Government and Politics  
Gender, Health, and Culture in the United States  
Principles of Fund Raising  
The Nonprofit Sector (Mason Core)  
Social Movements and Community Activism (Mason Core)  
Conflict Resolution and Transformation  
Writing, Social Justice, and Community
 
Topics in Communication and Gender  
Rhetoric of Social Movements and Political Controversy (Mason Core)  
Argument and Public Policy (Mason Core)  
New Media and Democracy  
RS: Writing Ethnography (Mason Core)  
Health Ethics, Leadership, and Advocacy  
Social Movements and Community Activism (Mason Core)  
Youth Resistance and Advocacy  
Public Writing and the Public Humanities
 
Writing across the Media  
Feature Writing  
Special Topics in Journalism  
Environmental Communication  
Creative Nonfiction Writing  
RS: Writing Nonfiction for the Public (Mason Core)  
Topics in U.S. History  
Total Credits 6

Capstone Course

ENGH 482 Community and Public Writing 3
Total Credits 3