What happens to an ecosystem when wildlife can’t move freely due to colossal freeways and other human-made infrastructure? In her first book for young readers, UCLA Writing Programs lecturer Teddi Chichester sheds…
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“Discover What I Know”: Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
Published: April 30, 2024“I write to discover what I know.” -Flannery O’Connor About The Event UCLA Writing Programs and the Department of English cordially invite you to our third annual Professional Writing Minor…
Read More“Crear Para Sanar:” A look into what it means to create for healing
Published: January 16, 2024Based on the life of a Dominican immigrant and Brooklyn matriarch, Mercedes is a multidisciplinary arts, humanities, and healing program that addresses aging, mental health, and intergenerational trauma. Through community-based workshops,…
Read MoreMeet Briley Lewis, 2022 Recipient of the Maasik Prize for Graduate Writing Instructors
Published: July 1, 2022Lewis is a graduate student in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a teaching fellow. She has taught Cluster 70: Evolution of Life and the Universe and a Cluster seminar: Astrobiology in…
Read MoreProfessional Writing Minor Students Present Their Projects During The 2022 Capstone Seminar Colloquium
Published: May 26, 2022L to R: PWM Capstone Seminar Colloquium presenters: Amber Thatcher, Roxann Song, Lynette Caballero, Marilyn Chavez-Martinez, Kailee Silver Forty of the Professional Writing Minor’s seventy-one graduating seniors participated in the…
Read MoreDistinguished Teaching Award Winner Peggy Davis Discusses Her Approach To Teaching Writing
Published: May 1, 2022Earlier this year, the UCLA Center for the Advancement of Teaching published a video in which Writing Programs lecturer and 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award winner Peggy Davis discusses how she…
Read MoreUCLA Newsroom Highlights Amber West’s Unique Hip-Hop Course
Published: February 26, 2022UCLA Newsroom recently highlighted Writing Programs lecturer Amber West and her unique English Composition course, “Identity and Representation in the Post-Hip-Hop Era.” West teaches hip-hop as literature, and the students…
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