EDC&I 495- Writing Towards A Hope In the Beloved Community
SLN: 23514
Meets Wednesday’s 1:30-3:20pm/online format
2 credits (credit/no credit)
Open to all students
Instructor: Siamak Vossoughi, is the former College of Education Artist-in Residence & a featured guest speaker at the 2020 College of Education Graduation ceremony. For more information about Siamak and his incredible work, please visit https://siamakvossoughi.com/.
Course Description: This will be a space of writing, expression, and group discussion of stories and their power toward social change. How does the writing of stories, either fiction or nonfiction, challenge the either/or thinking that marks a moment as politically fraught as ours? How does a currency of stories upend a currency of power? If one believes, in the words of Martin Luther King, “that we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force?” In this course, we will start with the notion that writing is a solitary activity often accompanied by a collective purpose. We will explore how the quiet inward work of writing and a concomitant capacity for ‘story-thinking’ can have the outward effect of expanding our humanity and creating new ways of seeing to build soul force.