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.

Throughout the history of drama, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction – not to mention real life – rebellion rules. From the subversive characters created by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Joseph Heller, and Toni Morrison in drama/poetry/fiction to bigger-than-life iconoclasts like Hatshepsut, John Locke, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Martin Luther King in nonfiction, the rebellious force those in power to bend the knee. This class will take a hard look at the effects that iconoclasts, both real and imagined, good and bad, have had on real life events, particularly as they pertain to natural rights. Any meaningful change in the world was brought about by the most determined protesters, the ultimate civilly disobedient, the hardest questioners of authority, and nowhere is this more obvious than in their writing. In short, conformists dot the i’s and cross the t’s of history. Iconoclasts write it.

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

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.

Requirements class fulfills