Rhetoric of Sports
ENG 103-17; 103-18 Mon/Wed/Fri: 8:00 to 8:50 am; 9:00 to 9:50 am The influence of sports has evolved beyond what happens on the field or court. Over the years, athletes and sports organizations have used their platforms as a rhetorical tool to enact political and social change. Through critical reading and engaging in multiple writing projects, including blogging, writing through drafting, and peer workshops, we will explore the rhetorical impact of sports, develop productive writing and rhetorical practices, and consider how those practices can be applied beyond the classroom. This semester, one class will be converted to Contract-Based Grading while the other will remain standard grading format. |
Core Creative Nonfiction
Creative Writing Program (9th to 12th) Mondays 8th and 9th block This course will explore Creative Nonfiction as a genre and form. We will define the genre through its various forms, such as the personal essay and memoir writing, and explore it through readings, discussions, and writing prompts. This will culminate into a final portfolio containing three pieces of Creative Nonfiction revised throughout the semester. |
California School of the Arts - San Gabriel Valley
Creative Writing Short Form
Integrate Arts Program (8th grade) Tuesdays/Thursdays 7th block From short stories and flash fiction to prose poetry and micro memoir, this class will be focusing on creative writing its shortest of form. Over the course of the semester, we will be studying the three major genres (Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction), reading and discussing examples, and attempting to create our own pieces throughout the semester. |
Genre Study: Pro Wrestling Storytelling
Creative Writing Program (9th - 12th) Wednesdays 7th and 8th block Pro Wrestling is a unique form of storytelling, one that creates characters larger than life that have their conflicts playout in the middle of a wrestling ring. This course is designed to explore Pro Wrestling as a Sub Genre, looking at the storytelling, the live theatre aspect, and the cultural impact of pro wrestling within our society. The goal is to understand the product, and to create stories of your own. |
Irvine Valley College
College Writing 2-Critical Thinking, Writing
WR2 - 63235 Tuesdays/Thursdays 12:00 to 1:50 pm Writing 2, the second college-level course in academic essay writing, concentrates on critical reasoning, argumentation, evaluation, analysis, and research at an advanced level. Students write and critique argumentative essays in response to assigned readings from a diversity of traditions representing a diversity of intellectual and cultural perspectives. |