2023-2024 Catalog

Requirements

Minor

The Interdisciplinary Writing minor is a five-course program consisting of one required 200-level core class (WRD 295) and four electives, described as follows. 

Note: No more than three courses from one department can be counted towards the minor.

Required Course

WRD 295Argument and Rhetoric Across the Disciplines

4 units

Electives

The below courses are offered regularly in the Interdisciplinary minor, though some may not be offered every year. Check Course Counts for the available courses each semester.

AMST 265/WRD 265Feminist Rhetorics and Social Change

4 units

ARTS 301Writing Art and Writing as Art

4 units

BLST 240Black Women Write Social Justice

4 units

CTSJ 215Language and Power

4 units

ENGL 280Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction Writing

4 units

ENGL 281Creative Writing: Poetry

4 units

ENGL 290Introduction to Literary Methods

4 units

ENGL 380Creative Writing: Advance Fiction Writing

4 units

ENGL 382Advanced Creative Writing

4 units

FREN 350Theory and Practice of Translation (Thème et Version)

4 units

MAC 220Introduction to Screenwriting and Narrative Practices

4 units

MAC 222Creating and Writing Television/Streaming Series

4 units

MAC 320Advanced Screenwriting and Narrative Practices

4 units

THEA 201Voices in American Theater

4 units

THEA 204Comedy and Social Change

4 units

THEA 380Playwriting

4 units

WRD 235Visual Rhetoric: Communication through Pictures and/or Words

4 units

WRD 250Topics in Writing with the Community: Writing and the Los Angeles Experience

4 units

WRD 275Popular Science Writing

4 units

WRD 285Principles of Journalism I: Covering News Across Media

4 units

WRD 286Principles of Journalism II: Narrative Nonfiction: True Stories Told Well

4 units

WRD 287Rhetorical Fault Lines: Journalism, Persuasion, Propaganda

4 units

WRD 301Creative Nonfiction

4 units

WRD 395Theory and Pedagogy of Writing

2 units

Students may also apply MAC 250 as an elective for the Interdisciplinary Writing minor if they have enrolled in the "The Video Essay" section of the course.

Students may also apply CTSJ 395 as an elective for the Interdisciplinary Writing minor if they have enrolled in the "Writing Trauma" section of the course.