How often have you seen multi-dimensional portrayals of women from indigenous or ethnic minority communities? In the United States, women of color are rarely made central, which allows erasure from cultural texts, political discourse, and public spheres. To correct this oversight, our class moves women of color "from margin to center,” in the words of bell hooks. To analyze what's often invisible, course materials will emphasize the personal, political, and historical experiences of women of color in the United States. You will complete assignments that strengthen your abilities as writers and scholars, with women of color as the guiding framework. Our curriculum includes nonfiction texts and topics, with interdisciplinary nuances of poetry, film, spoken word, performance, music video, photography, protest, visual art, memorialization, and current events. We also fix our collective lens on memory, in our course materials and while writing short memoir essays. Open to Writing 1 students of all genders and racial/ethnic/national origins, you will develop your voice as a storyteller and skills as a writer while thinking critically about hierarchies and expressions of power.Writing 1 is an introduction to college-level writing, reading, and discussion. Initial writing assignments will involve students with language as a personally expressive, creative, and imaginative medium. Later assignments will bring this expressiveness to bear on practical writing tasks typical of college-level work: research, analysis,argument, etc. Reading is designed to stimulate discussion and present models for the students'own writing. Although writing and reading are the main emphases, attention will also be given to informal discussion and oral presentation.

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