Undergrad Course Work
As you know, I have a fair amount of free time with the internet during my work days. On and off, I've been searching around for schools with creative nonfiction/literary journalism/new journalism programs. I've found a couple graduate programs, and many of the top schools have off-shoots of their journalism departments to address this growing sector of learning. Undergraduate programs, however, are sparce. I was beginning to accept the fact that I would major in journalism (emphasis on print) and move onto a graduate program more tailored to my career goals. Then I discovered UC Irvine.
What are the chances that the only undergrad literary journalism program I found is in Southern California by my grandfather's house? Lately I've been obsessed: Can I go? Will I go? When can I go? May I please go?
I have fantasies:
LIT JRN (F07)21 REPORTING LIT JOURNDEPAUL, A.
To write convincingly and tell powerful stories that resonate, writers need to be meticulous, thorough reporters. LJ21 teaches students how to report their literary journalism articles accurately and thoroughly, focusing on the three basic means of gathering information for a story: interviewing, observing and reading. Early in the quarter, students will select a topic, or “beat,” as it is known in news parlance, from which they will develop contacts and story leads. Students will cover an event, conduct an interview and generate articles related to their beats, also learning ways to use Internet resources and databases to find facts and information and examining investigative and legal documents.
Maybe this will work out for me after all.
LIT JRN (F07)101BW ART OF RECONSTRCTNSIEGEL, B.
In some quarters, the practice of “reconstructing” a story is seen as suspect if not impossible. How can you write about events if you weren’t present when they happened? How can you know what other people think or feel? Doesn’t reconstruction border on fiction? In this workshop, students will explore such questions-and learn just how literary journalists manage to practice the art of reconstruction in entirely ethical, accurate ways. Students will read exemplary models of reconstructed narrative by writers such as Jon Krakauer, Melissa Fay Greene, CDB Bryan and Michael Paterniti. They will see why reconstruction plays such a crucial, honorable role in the field of literary journalism. They will also do a good deal of their own reconstruction (learning, along the way, what Tom Wolfe meant when he said that “entering people’s minds” was just “one more doorbell a reporter had to push”). This course is an advanced writing workshop: Students will regularly share their work with classmates in a constructive process of peer-review, then revise based on that feedback. By the end of the quarter, students will have produced a major example of reconstructed narrative writing.
Please, please, please, please, please, please.
Los Angeles Magazine
Contact Name: Eric Mercado
Contact Phone: (323) 801-0062
Contact Email: emercado@lamag.comApplicants should be jr. or sr. LitJ, English, or CL majors who can commute to L.A. Send resume, cover letter, and maximum of 2 writing samples by fax (323-801-0105), e-mail, or regular mail (5900 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036).Los Angeles Times, O.C. Edition
Contact Name: Jeff Gottlieb
Contact Email: Jeff.Gottlieb@latimes.comOnly juniors and seniors should apply. Please send an e-mail indicating your interest and a brief description of yourself to Jeff Gottlieb at the address listed above.
Maybe. Eye on the prize. I wonder how this will work.
What are the chances that the only undergrad literary journalism program I found is in Southern California by my grandfather's house? Lately I've been obsessed: Can I go? Will I go? When can I go? May I please go?
I have fantasies:
LIT JRN (F07)21 REPORTING LIT JOURNDEPAUL, A.
To write convincingly and tell powerful stories that resonate, writers need to be meticulous, thorough reporters. LJ21 teaches students how to report their literary journalism articles accurately and thoroughly, focusing on the three basic means of gathering information for a story: interviewing, observing and reading. Early in the quarter, students will select a topic, or “beat,” as it is known in news parlance, from which they will develop contacts and story leads. Students will cover an event, conduct an interview and generate articles related to their beats, also learning ways to use Internet resources and databases to find facts and information and examining investigative and legal documents.
Maybe this will work out for me after all.
LIT JRN (F07)101BW ART OF RECONSTRCTNSIEGEL, B.
In some quarters, the practice of “reconstructing” a story is seen as suspect if not impossible. How can you write about events if you weren’t present when they happened? How can you know what other people think or feel? Doesn’t reconstruction border on fiction? In this workshop, students will explore such questions-and learn just how literary journalists manage to practice the art of reconstruction in entirely ethical, accurate ways. Students will read exemplary models of reconstructed narrative by writers such as Jon Krakauer, Melissa Fay Greene, CDB Bryan and Michael Paterniti. They will see why reconstruction plays such a crucial, honorable role in the field of literary journalism. They will also do a good deal of their own reconstruction (learning, along the way, what Tom Wolfe meant when he said that “entering people’s minds” was just “one more doorbell a reporter had to push”). This course is an advanced writing workshop: Students will regularly share their work with classmates in a constructive process of peer-review, then revise based on that feedback. By the end of the quarter, students will have produced a major example of reconstructed narrative writing.
Please, please, please, please, please, please.
Los Angeles Magazine
Contact Name: Eric Mercado
Contact Phone: (323) 801-0062
Contact Email: emercado@lamag.comApplicants should be jr. or sr. LitJ, English, or CL majors who can commute to L.A. Send resume, cover letter, and maximum of 2 writing samples by fax (323-801-0105), e-mail, or regular mail (5900 Wilshire Blvd., 10th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90036).Los Angeles Times, O.C. Edition
Contact Name: Jeff Gottlieb
Contact Email: Jeff.Gottlieb@latimes.comOnly juniors and seniors should apply. Please send an e-mail indicating your interest and a brief description of yourself to Jeff Gottlieb at the address listed above.
Maybe. Eye on the prize. I wonder how this will work.