Humanities and Communication
Creative Writing and Social Action
The Creative Writing and Social Action concentration (CWSA) offers students the opportunity to deepen and advance their studies in creative writing and social action. The concentration teaches depth in “writing as representation,” believing that everyone’s stories matter and need to be heard. Social action writing is a form of engaged critical inquiry and an act of social responsibility. It is writing that witnesses, breaks silences, and transforms lives. Students with an HCOM major and CWSA concentration are well prepared to enter any career that values strong writing, cross-cultural communication, tech/media skills, community responsiveness, and creative and critical engagement with social issues. CWSA students have gone on to become poets, fiction or creative non-fiction writers; editors, journalists, law students, grant writers, Peace Corps workers, political organizers, coordinators of community-based and cultural arts programs, among others.