An intensive, accelerated course satisfying concurrently the requirements of the UC Entry Level Writing Requirement and the first half of Reading and Composition. Readings will include imaginative, expository and argumentative texts representative of the range of those encountered in the undergraduate curriculum and will feature authors from diverse social and cultural backgrounds and perspectives. Instruction in writing a range of discourse forms and in the revision of papers.

Drawing inspiration from the 2021 and 2020 themes of the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List for New Students ("Lift Our Gazes" and "Between Worlds," respectively) we will read, write, and talk about texts dealing with people who look clear-eyed at challenges that arise when caught having to adjust to moving between one world and another, whether they be issues of immigration, nationality, identity complexities, differing geographies, cultural clashes, technological shifts, or developmental adjustments we move through in different stages of life (including leaving home to go to college!) The class will itself be a kind of "Between Worlds" space as we move from the start of the semester to the end. Join us for the journey! Book List: The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (This year's On the Same Page reading); Exit West, by Moshin Hamid (last year's On the Same Page reading); They Say, I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (4th edition), by Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein; other course readings available electronically through the class bCourses site.

Open to students who have not fulfilled the Entry Level Writing Requirement.

Requisites

• Placement by UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam.
• Only open to students who have not completed the ELWR.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills