Topics in American Lit: L.A. Stories
Los Angeles has inspired writers and communicators like few other cities. This course, offered through
Emerson College, will explore a variety of narrative repre-sentations of L.A. across different media and genres and will offer each student a chance to create his or her own L.A. story—a work of fiction, literary journalism, or another form to be agreed upon with the instructor. By reading or viewing and then discussing the works of Nathanael West, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, and many others, students will develop not only a deeper knowledge of the city in which they now find themselves, but will also learn about the creative processes and themes through which L.A. has come to be most widely understood.
Los Angeles Internship Course
The internship course serves as an academic complement to the student’s practical internship training, to give each student a larger sense of what the internship experience signifies—personally as well as culturally.
Wearing her trademark beret,
Suzanne Lummis, poet and grand-daughter of city booster Charles Fletcher Lummis, visits the spring '04 L.A. Stories class.
