Starting September 1, 2025
The Craft of Writing for an Audience - 101
Course description
Writing is one of the most important tools we have for communicating ideas, theories, and experiences. In this five-week course, we will cover the fundamentals of communicating clearly and effectively through the written word by keeping an audience in mind. The course will be a mix of lecture, in-class exercises, and workshopping. There will be weekly assigned writing prompts as well as readings (no more than two pages a week), and students will be expected to read and respond to each other’s work prior to class workshop.
Who is this course for?
- Licensed and pre-licensed mental health clinicians (any license, any state)
- Clinicians in private practice, community mental health, and university settings are welcome
- This course is for clinicians who self-identify as Asian / Asian American
Details
- Dates: 9/2, 9/9, 9/16, 9/23, 9/30
- Tuesdays 5pm -630pm PST / 8pm -930pm EST
- 5 sessions
- 8 participants
- Fees: $350 - $400
- Virtual. On Zoom
Instructor
Tiffany Babb (she/her) is the editor of the comics criticism journal The Comics Courier and baseball website The Fan Files. She has previously served as deputy editor at Popverse and as co-editor of the Eisner Award winning PanelxPanel Magazine. She has written for The AV Club, Paste Magazine, and The Comics Journal. You can find her poetry in Rust + Moth, Third Wednesday Magazine, and Cardiff Review. Her first collection of poetry A LIST OF THINGS I’VE LOST is published by VA Press.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unfortunately, not at this time.
Course fees are split between instructors and the Center. We believe in valuing the time and work of our instructors. The fees to Center support operating costs for current and future programming. At this time, our non-teaching staff are volunteers.
Due to the size of the courses (8 participants), your presence is important so we hope that you make every effort to attend class. And, life happens.
However, there will be no recordings of sessions. We want to encourage participants to feel at ease to share personal and/or clinical material.
We want to offer a space for Asian / Asian American clinicians to be, to learn, to question, to create, and to support one another. And, from this space, our hope is that we can have more nuanced conversations and in depth explorations of the intersection of Asian subjectivities and psychoanalysis.
Our public events are open to all. And, in the future, we might offer courses for non-Asian clinicians.
If you need to withdraw from enrollment, full refund will be given to up to two weeks prior to class start minus a processing fee of $50. If less than 2 weeks, processing fee of $100.
No refunds once classes have begun or for missed classes.
In the event that the Center has to cancel a course, full refund will be provided.
Expectations of Participants
Barring extenuating circumstances, participants in TAACP’s courses agree to attend all sessions, arriving on time for the entire duration of class.
As classes are online, ensure that you are in a quiet and private space that allows for both audio and video to be on.
Classes are small to encourage dialogue. We encourage you to “take” your share of talking time and listening time.
Keep other participants’ experience and clinical information confidential.
All involved with TAACP (staff, volunteers, faculty, participants, guests) are expected to interact with each other with respect.
Issues that arise will be first discussed / addressed with the immediate folks involved and can be progressed to include faculty and/or TAACP’s administration.
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