By james art 
As an English major, specializing in creative writing, Dream Dylan West (which passes by Dylan academic) saw the semester in the Lake Tahoe program on the Wayne L. Prim campus as the perfect opportunity to complete its dystopic climate fiction. West has found the Certificate of Sustainability Certificate exclusive to the Taho Lake Campus, provided that education and origin are needed.
“I was trying to do my research on climate change, but it was the certificate and those courses that provided the basis to find the information I needed,” West said.
The intersection of creative writing and sustainability
West participates in the introductory semester in the Tahoe Lake Resistance Program in the fall of the semester 2024. The curriculum focuses on three basic courses for sustainability, one colloquium and elective course. At the end of the semester, students who complete the program are awarded with the certificate to apply for their future careers. As a student studying a non-environmentally focused major, West found that education for a certificate of sustainability helps her in her creative scriptures, along with her minor, black research. First of all, West took the value of this education for its own knowledge and media literacy.
“One of the most influential conversations for me was to talk to the Mount Rose Resistance Manager … as a huge tourist spot, there is a lot of use of waste and water. Hearing how quantitative the work of the sustainability manager was, it made me realize how appropriate this certificate was, “West said.
“One of the most influential conversations for me was to talk to the Mount Rose Resistance Manager … as a huge tourist place, there is a lot of use of waste and water.”
After receiving the Sustainability Certificate, West sees the knowledge she has won from the program, having a direct effect on her future work. The curriculum was an ideal addition to her creative pursuits.
“I went to school with a clear picture of my future, but I am starting to see him turning to the inclusion of sustainability, “West said. IT would be cool to work in writing for someone who needs a writer trained on climate change and resilience. “
As for the West Cli-Fi, which brought her to the campus of Lake Taho, the story follows a trance lonely father who is forced to move after a series of natural disasters. The track dives in Queer themes, found a family, isolation, trance paternity and climate anxiety. West gravitates to creative writing because it grows up as a storyteller. As the youngest child with a large age of his four siblings, West says that he often depends on his own stories and adventures to build a worldwide scale to have fun.
Tied it with the semester project
Part of the certificate is a project focused on sustainability at the end of the semester. The West project, “Queer Interstections of Futury’s Futurable,” draws inspiration from a Jessie Gender video essay, a transsexual creator entitled “I Dream of Queer Internet”. West pulled an analogy from the video of the video that was discussing the media and the experience of Queer, and connected it to the Malcolm X quote: “If you glue a knife to my back 9 inches and pull it 6 inches, there is no progress. If you pull it completely, this is not progress. Progress heals the wound that strikes the impact. And they won’t even admit that the knife is there. “In its project, the West covered the practices for the construction of the community and the inclusion of the past and the present and how they should inform about sustainable practices today.
West has built his project in a teaching assistant by Prof. Brennan Legas Sociology for climate change. Legasse recalls West’s ability to create a life work while teaching others that as long as recognition is crucial, so is the action.
“She was able to speak both about dismantling and emphasizing these injustices and uttered them clearly through climate justice.”
“The biggest absorption was the importance of the inheritance of injustice, which penetrates local and global climatic work. Considerable to Dylan, she was able to speak both about dismantling and highlighting these injustices and uttered them clearly through the justice of the climate, “Legas said.
During her 15 weeks in Taho, West says she has made the most of every day by the lake. She found both the warm weather of the first months of autumn and the possible snow of winter is equally beautiful. One of her favorite memories of the semester was Ceremony for Sustainability Certificate, where students received their medals. West said he felt like a moment of full circle. For students who are interested in the semester in the Lake Tahoe program, West says it is a nearby community.
West is about to finish this semester at the beginning of the spring of 2025 with a major in English and a minor in black research. She is interested in continuing her education at the university to pursue a master’s degree in creative writing.