ENG 218 - The Art and Activism of the Journal as Creative Writing (1)

The journal can be the site for creative writing and activist reflection. For this course, we will read different writers and activists’ journals and craft our own as venues for thinking and growing in the safe experimental space of the journal. Journals will embrace the visual arts and photography as well as writing. The course will engage with the emerging body of theory about the art of the journal, as well as practice of journal writing. The Book Arts focus will use Japanese stab binding and suminagashi (water/ink marbling) to create journals, and perfect binding to create hard-copy journals from digitally composed journals. The focus for a specific course offering may be a topic such as the Environment, Race, Social Justice or Gender. When the course focuses on the Environment (as planned for 2022) it will count as an offering for the Environmental Studies major.

This course is pre-approved for transcript notation in the Ingenuity in Action category, Creative Expression. To participate and earn notation of completion on your transcript, please complete the Ingenuity in Action application.
(Fine Arts)