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SUMMARY:"Poets in Prose": Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:“Always be a poet\, even in prose.” -Charles Baudelaire \nAbout The Event\nUCLA Writing Programs and the UCLA Department of English invite you to our second annual Professional Writing Minor Capstone Seminar Colloquium\, organized as part of Undergraduate Research Week 2023. In this series of panels\, students from the Professional Writing Minor (PWM) will present an exciting array of capstone seminar projects. \nA new and growing minor with just eleven graduating seniors in 2020\, forty-one of the PWM’s seventy graduating seniors this year will present on a rich diversity of topics that exemplify the range\, depth\, and individualized paths possible within our minor. From baseball card pricing to public school assemblies\, orchestral cookbooks to fairy tales\, students from diverse majors will share their original work in a range of genres including personal memoirs\, professional websites\, podcasts\, cultural criticism\, and more. \n\nOur panels are free and open to the public. Friends\, family\, faculty\, staff\, and students\, including past\, current\, and future Professional Writing minors\, are welcome to attend. Join us to experience writing as an act of both communication and exploration as these emerging writers share their insights and discoveries. \n\nSchedule\nWed. 5/24: 9-9:45AM\, 10-10:45AM\, 11-11:45AM (YRL 11348)\nThurs. 5/25: 11-11:45AM\, 12-12:45PM\, 1-1:45PM\, 2-2:45PM (Kaplan 193)\nFri. 5/26: 9-9:45AM\, 10-10:45AM\, 11-11:45AM (Powell 186) \n\nList of Presenters and Project Titles\n\n\nConnor Brain; Savoring Tradition: A Culinary Account of LA’s Legacy Restaurants\nAnthony Castillo; Amateur Detectivism: Web Sleuths and Social Media in Contemporary True Crime Investigations\nJialun Jeffrey Chen; The Facade of American Polyglots\nAmber Chen; Serving Justice Behind Closed Doors\nHannah Chu; Does language still define humanity in the era of ChatGPT?\nClifford Gant; A Mother\, A Mirror: A Family History of Adoption\nEmilio Corona; Hills\nEsperanza De Lara; The Cost of Progress: The Future of Domestic Energy in the U.S.\nPearl Doan; The Fall of Antibiotics (and the Rise of Gonorrhea)\nNora Farahdel; Changes\nIsabelle Friedman; ‘We were always seen as temporary’: Inside the Experiences of Mothers Working as UCLA Lecturers\nSasha Fuson; “People Make Culture”: Feminist Media Criticism in 2023\nJenna Hajny; Serenity Outside: An Exploration of US National Parks\nJackson Harris; Pop Stars in the Modern World\nMariah Hernandez; The Real Families of True Crime: An Exploitation of Trauma in True Crime Entertainment\nSabrina Hotaki; The FOMO Epidemic: Investigating Fentynal Overdose Crisis Among College Campuses\nEmmeline Hutchinson; American Gun Violence\nFrances Kroll; The Mathematician’s Guide to Proficiency in Patisserie\nErin Kwak; Content Content\nSydney Lester; Empowered or Objectified? Social Media and the Paradox of Contemporary Feminism\nLouise Lin; Fairy Tales: General Appeal and Personal Zeal\nDesiree Lopez; Meaning of Life Project\nNaomi Lopez; Golden Hours\nMadeleine Lorber; The Implications of Attachment\nEva Muller; Spirituality in a Secular Age: An Inquiry into Youth’s Quest for Purpose and Meaning in the 21st Century\nEsther Myers; UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Community Cookbook\nLea Ozdere; Convergence in Divergence: Coming Together in Our Separate Battles\nAaron Phung; Bouncing through the Pressure: Reflections on AAU Basketball and Youth Competitiveness\nSerlie Pouladian; Barriers Stronger Than Tuition\nAmanda Schuler; Changing the Narrative\nSara Shirazian; Sara Shirazian’s Creative Identity Portfolio\nZoya Sihota; Space Matters: How Urban Form Can Foster a Sense of Community\nMallika Singh; Born to Love\, Doomed to F*ck\nLily Speakman; Representation and Reclamation in the Fantasy Genre\nMauve Spillard; Analyzing Translation Through Dazai\nSonja Stott; Assembly Required?\nLinda Tran; Power Up: Finding “Authentic” LGBTQ+ Diversity and Representation in Video Games\nGenevieve Trimbell; For The Love Of The Sport\nKellen Whetstone; Predicting Baseball Card Prices With Stats\nSydney Wiederkehr; My Concept of Womanhood: Deconstructing Male Desire and Restoring Female Power\nSophie Yoakum; Westwood’s Small Businesses Have a Big Problem\n\n\n\n\nThe PWM Capstone Seminars are led in Sp23 by Writing Programs faculty: Dana Cairns Watson\, Amber West\, Maja Manojlovic\, and Darien Battle Johnson. \n\n\n\nClick here to view a flyer for the event in JPG format.\nClick here to view a flyer for the event in PDF format.\nClick here to view a square flyer for event in JPG format.
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