Telling Truths I: Writing for the Cause of Justice

This PULSE elective will explore writing as a tool for social change. Students will read and experiment with a variety of written forms memoir, creative non-fiction, opinion and essay to tell the truth as they experience it in their own encounters with social injustice. This workshop is intended to provide a comprehensive introduction to the range of strategies that social prophets and witnesses have used, and are using today, to promote the cause of justice. As a course in the PULSE program, service is required for this course. Satisfies the following distribution requirement(s) for Philosophy: Ethics & Values.