WRIT 3100 - Writing Autobiography (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course examines how writers compose their lives and construct social identities often against personal, societal, and cultural obstacles. Specifically we will examine elements such as trauma, memory, place, borders, ethnicity, and how they function in autobiographical works, including those by authors sometimes marginalized based on sexual orientation, race, gender, ethnicity, mental illness, disability, or socio-economics. Students will learn methods such as multimodal archival research in order to understand how research informs autobiography. They will also write in various genres to explore their lives as related to these contexts. Writing workshop and seminar format.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “C” in ENGL 1102.