Muir College Writing Program 

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Dear Muir Community,

We affirm our commitment as members of Muir College to fight white supremacy, police brutality, and defend the rights of the underrepresented and disenfranchised. Our community, who braved the COVID-19 pandemic, must acknowledge and work to change racial injustice for George Floyd, Ahmaud Abery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, Justin Howell, Jamel Floyd and the uncounted numbers of Black men and women lost to what Provost Wayne eloquently calls “the deeper pandemic of structural racism” (Diversity at Muir College). 

We at the Muir College Writing Program know that language has power—and that the power of language has been frequently used for repression and injustice rather than justice and liberation as is seen in the rightful outrage in the distinction between “manslaughter” and “murder” in the charges brought against the killers of George Floyd. We are committed to examine the language we use here in Muir Writing so we advance racial justice, voices for change, and freedom. 

We recognize that as part of a university we have benefited from the structures of power that have systemized racism and we are committed to selecting readings that encourage us to question our assumptions about justice and systemic racism.

Despite our sadness and anger, it is time for us to consider what we can do as a writing program to disrupt racism in its many forms. The MCWP will work to

• Redouble its commitment to hire and mentor instructors from diverse backgrounds and experiences
• Include more Black writers in our course readers   
• Focus the next iteration of MCWP 40 on the issue of antiblackness
• Increase the number of MCWP 50 courses with themes focusing on antiblackness, abolition, and antiracism

George Floyd
Breonna Taylor
Tony McDade
Justin Howell
Jamel Floyd

We hope that we have written in right relationship to their lives, and the justice movements surrounding them.
Regards,

Carrie Wastal                              
Director, MCWP                        
Marion E. Wilson
Assistant Director, MCWP

All MCWP 40, 50, and 125 Readers are sold through the UCSD Bookstore.

MCWP 40 Required Textbooks for Spring 2024:

• A Writer's Reference, 10th Edition by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers (for Muir College Writing Program)

• Climate Optimism: Celebrating Systemic Change Around the World by Zahra Biabani and Christiana Figueres

MCWP 50/125 Required Textbooks for Spring 2024:

• A Writer's Reference, 10th Edition by Diana Hacker and Nancy Sommers (for Muir College Writing Program)
• The Craft of Research, Fourth Edition by Wayne Booth, Gregory Colomb, and Joseph Williams