LIT-3130: Literary Communities of Los Angeles

In this class, students will dive into the literary world of Los Angeles, exploring literary and cultural centers throughout the city, reading classic and contemporary L.A. poets and writers, and engaging with the L.A. literary community in person and through their own writing. As an experiential class, students will be introduced to literary centers and events throughout west and east L.A., write reviews, engage in classroom discussions, and read a creative piece in a public reading at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center. In doing so, students will explore the relationship between community and creative work in Los Angeles while considering the validity of commonly held conceptions of the city as an alienated, sprawling, and superficial metropolis. This is a 4 unit class. The extra unit will be comprised of the individual visits to literary sites of the student’s own choice, reviews written in response to these visits, online postings of these reviews and responding to other student’s reviews on Sakai, and the reading, preparation and reflection required before site visits. See assignments for more information.
Min. Credits: 4.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles
Method(s): Classroom
Faculty Consent Required: N
Program Approval Required: N
Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science

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LIT-3130: Literary Communities of Los Angeles