|
|
|
| |
||
|
Writing ProgramRoom 166Kresge College Santa Cruz, CA 95064 Office Hours: Monday - Thursday: 8:30-12:00 & 1:00-4:30 Friday: 8:30-12:00  Find us!
|
|
| Writing Program Winter 2010 Course Offerings Home While all Writing Program courses share the same goals and practices, each class has a distinctly different focus. You should read carefully each of the class descriptions for the course you need, and try to enroll in the class that you think will be of most interest to you.
*Writing 1 is no longer available as an enrollment option. Students who entered UCSC before fall 2005 who are seeking to satisfy the C1/C2 writing requirements should contact their adviser. WRITING 2: RHETORIC AND INQUIRYGeneral Course Description: All Writing 2 classes explore the power of language to make meaning, to create identities for the writer, to shape communities, and to influence readers. All Writing 2 classes will give you the chance to explore writing as a means of discovery and learning as well as a means of communication. Each class will help you to analyze rhetorical situations: that is, to understand the conventions at work in various situations and the kinds of arguments and evidence that are persuasive in different contexts. And in each Writing 2 class, you will have the chance to develop your particular strengths as a writer of academic prose and work on your particular weaknesses. All Writing 2 classes teach writing as a process that involves strategies for generating ideas, revising, and editing. They all encourage you to work together as readers of each other’s papers. And all require a significant amount of reading and writing, which may include informal writing for yourself as well as more formal papers for others. Satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement is a prerequisite for Writing 2. All course descriptions are subject to change. Enrollment Procedures: Keep in mind that Writing 2 classes fill quickly! If you are an ELWR-satisfied student and need to satisfy Writing 2 this year, you should try to enroll during your first-pass enrollment appointment. If the class you want to enroll in is full, you can try again after 2:00 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 4. Additional seats will be made available at that time, though they fill quickly on a first-come, first-served basis. If you are currently an ELWR-unsatisfied student, you will have an opportunity to enroll in a Writing 2 section after the results of the Nov. 21 Analytical Writing Placement Exam (AWPE), and exam appeals, have been recorded. (Scores for the November AWPE will be available on your MyUCSC portal after 5 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 25.) You should enroll in a back-up class in case you are not able to secure a space in Writing 2 in winter 2010. (It is offered again in spring 2010.) More information can be found in this downloadable file: Enrollment Procedures For Winter Quarter 2010.
50261 WRIT-2-01 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 06:00 PM -07:45 PM Soc Sci 2 167 Knisely,L.E. Youth Identity in a Networked Culture In this course, we will investigate how to write effectively, for multiple audiences, by examining how youth invent and reinvent themselves online in contemporary America. In the process, we will read and respond to a variety of texts, focusing on the ways in which identity—including our own digital selves—is created and manipulated online. We will seek to answer questions such as these: What are the kinds of writing youth are producing online to engage in their own process of identity production? What kinds of learning take place online or in virtual worlds? How is your constructed online self a mirror of your own identity? How have you been defined by your personal involvement with iPods, video games, social networking sites, blogs, and other forms of digital media? You will write a number of essays, including a research paper, and will also engage in informal response writing. Additionally, you will participate in peer editing workshops and conferences designed to help improve the style, content, and structure of your written work. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50263 WRIT-2-02 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 09:30 AM -10:40 AM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Freeman,C.M. Thinking Rhetorically This class explores modes of inquiry and genres of writing that grow out of inquiry. Students will read and write different kinds of essays based on research—always paying particular attention to the interplay between writers' intentions and readers' responses as they operate in varying rhetorical contexts. We will work on developing writing processes and polishing prose styles suitable for academic discourses as well as experiment with other styles. Above all, we will explore the notion of effectiveness: that is, what makes a particular piece of writing work in a particular situation? And we will return often to a related question: what is good writing? Assigned reading will mostly come from current New Yorker magazines. Writing assignments (almost one per week) will involve writing and rewriting different kinds of essays related to The New Yorker on subjects of each student's choice. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50265 WRIT-2-03 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 09:30 AM -10:40 AM Kresge Acad 194 Amis,M.C. What’s in The New Yorker This Week? What makes writing good? To examine what makes a good discussion of something, students in this class will read and write about The New Yorker, the national magazine most noted for its peerless, interesting writing and cartoons. What do you find interesting? What is the role of surprise? These and other questions will spur your own writing in a variety of different directions. There will be frequent writing assignments, formal and informal, in class and out, drawing on what you learn about good writing from reading it every week. You can see part of the current issue at www.newyorker.com. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50267 WRIT-2-04 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 09:30 AM -10:40 AM Oakes Acad 102 Faunce,B.K. Writing About Film This course focuses on writing and the study of film. Students will examine the formal aspects of film making, such as mise-en-scène, camera angle, and montage, and how these techniques help to construct “meaning.” Films are not ideologically neutral but highly charged “texts” put together to convey very specific messages, and students will explore the nuances of reading screen drama, from its attractive but illusive visual field to the politics of representation that informs so many of its narratives. But much of the day to day work of the course will be devoted to improving our writing, and we will spend a good deal of time practicing the techniques and strategies that are intended to help us produce clear, concise and effective essays. We will follow a “process” approach to writing, which includes brainstorming sessions on developing an argument, small group discussions on how to incorporate outside sources and workshops on editing and revising an essay. Students will write three formal essays and complete a research project (which includes a longer research paper); each essay will involve draft work, peer reviews, editing, research and documentation. The texts for this section are a Writing 2 Reader (Faunce) and Easy Writer (Lunsford). Students are also required to view as many as four films outside of class. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50269 WRIT-2-05 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 11:00 AM -12:10 PM Oakes Acad 102 Faunce,B.K. Writing About Film This course focuses on writing and the study of film. Students will examine the formal aspects of film making, such as mise-en-scène, camera angle, and montage, and how these techniques help to construct “meaning.” Films are not ideologically neutral but highly charged “texts” put together to convey very specific messages, and students will explore the nuances of reading screen drama, from its attractive but illusive visual field to the politics of representation that informs so many of its narratives. But much of the day to day work of the course will be devoted to improving our writing, and we will spend a good deal of time practicing the techniques and strategies that are intended to help us produce clear, concise and effective essays. We will follow a “process” approach to writing, which includes brainstorming sessions on developing an argument, small group discussions on how to incorporate outside sources and workshops on editing and revising an essay. Students will write three formal essays and complete a research project (which includes a longer research paper); each essay will involve draft work, peer reviews, editing, research and documentation. The texts for this section are a Writing 2 Reader (Faunce) and Easy Writer (Lunsford). Students are also required to view as many as four films outside of class. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50271 WRIT-2-06 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 11:00 AM -12:10 PM Eight Acad 242 Abrams,E.S. Reading the News This class examines the way meaning is made through print news as a way to think about how meaning is made in any writing meant for readers: how facts are selected, arranged, and presented; how positions are characterized and represented; how arguments are made and contested; how “objectivity” enables and obscures. Because news is meant to be read, examining the news also means analyzing approaches to different audiences. Though there will be opportunities to examine news in other formats (e.g., excerpts from The Daily Show or from Fox News, Politico.com or Slate.com, radio spots) this class will concentrate primarily on print news. Readings will include the daily New York Times and selections from weekly news and culture magazines, alongside previously selected articles available either by course reader or in electronic format. Research questions will be drawn from the news as it evolves over the quarter. Students will write regularly, revise often, and frequently work with peers. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50273 WRIT-2-07 Rhetoric & Inquiry Pending. Please check back later.
50275 WRIT-2-08 Rhetoric & Inquiry Pending. Please check back later.
51853 WRIT-2-09 Rhetoric & Inquiry Pending. Please check back later.
50277 WRIT-2-10 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 12:30 PM -01:40 PM Oakes Acad 106 McKercher,P.M. Gaia's Revenge This class is designed for those taking the College 8 Core 81B course, Fundamentals of Environmental Science, which will explore climate and ecosystems. We will investigate how to find and make sense out of a variety of readings related to environmental issues and make persuasive arguments about them through understanding rhetorical principles. Students will engage in understanding and communicating concepts in environmental science, including communicating in different media for a variety of audiences and purposes. As in every Writing 2 course, students in this class will write several substantive essays, including a final research project. Ideally, the final project will be a collaborative group project on a subject that will be the topic of the 81C culminating project, a creative solution to an environmental problem. Restricted to College Eight students who are concurrently enrolled in CLEI 81B. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50279 WRIT-2-11 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 02:00 PM -03:10 PM Kresge Acad 194 Mortensen,K. The Virtue of Reverence In this course we will consider the philosophical, literary, and political ideas in Paul Woodruff’s recent book, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue. Drawing on both ancient and poetic sources, Woodruff argues that reverence is still essential to a well-functioning society as well as being an unseen part of all human relationships. In addition to analyzing and responding to Woodruff’s and other related texts, students will have the opportunity to consider and examine their own thoughts about reverence and to apply Woodruff’s ideas to contemporary social issues. Our main goal is to learn how to write strong essays that are directed to specific audiences, clearly present a position, support that position with good reasoning and evidence, and consider possible objections. Both in and out of class, students will write regularly, revise often, and frequently work with peers. We will also consider how Woodruff’s thoughts about reverence can be applied to our own writing—how can writing evoke awe and create community? Guided by readings in Reading Critically, Writing Well, students will write reflective essays, evaluations, essays explaining concepts, as well as a more developed, researched position paper. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50281 WRIT-2-12 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 02:00 PM -03:10 PM Kresge Clrm 323 Silva,D. The Practice of Everyday Life This class invites you to write and think critically about the cultural influences in your daily life. We’ll be exploring a wide range of popular and everyday culture, thinking about the media and advertising that we consume, the subcultures that we affiliate ourselves with, and the various built environments (from the UCSC campus to our homes to consumer spaces) that we inhabit. One of our focuses will be exploring constructions of gender and sexuality in popular culture—how we are interpellated as masculine and feminine subjects through the cultural texts we consume. We will use the study of everyday life as a framework in which to practice various forms of writing, including a personal essay, semiotic analysis, an argumentative research paper, and a textual analysis. This course focuses on process-based writing; in addition to an ongoing journal and a series of shorter assignments, you will write several papers that go through full planning, drafting, editing, and revising stages. Seminar meetings will involve students presenting their work and helping to direct our areas of study by analyzing the television shows, films, music, and experiences that influence them on a daily basis. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50283 WRIT-2-13 Rhetoric & Inquiry Pending. Please check back later.
51855 WRIT-2-14 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 03:30 PM -04:40 PM Soc Sci 2 165 Lopez,L. Documenting Lives: Writing About Immigration This course examines immigration issues and immigrants’ experiences in the context of the contemporary United States, in ways that will help students address current debates clearly, confidently, and constructively. We will be reading and writing about media narratives as well as a variety of social science approaches: while working to become better informed about the larger social, economic and political picture, we will be working closely with the texts to understand how debates are constructed in the public sphere and in policy arenas. We will assess how authors use key words, statistics and images to produce emotional, intellectual and political effects; how they use historical and theoretical frameworks to explain current circumstances and their positions on policies; and how they document and analyze individual or collective immigrants’ experiences within those frameworks. A significant amount of the reading will focus on contemporary Latino and Asian immigrant experiences (or media narratives about them), but for the final research paper students may explore any aspect of contemporary immigration in the US. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50285 WRIT-2-15 Rhetoric & Inquiry MWF 03:30 PM -04:40 PM Oakes Acad 106 McKercher,P.M. Gaia's Revenge This class is designed for those taking the College 8 Core 81B course, Fundamentals of Environmental Science, which will explore climate and ecosystems. We will investigate how to find and make sense out of a variety of readings related to environmental issues and make persuasive arguments about them through understanding rhetorical principles. Students will engage in understanding and communicating concepts in environmental science, including communicating in different media for a variety of audiences and purposes. As in every Writing 2 course, students in this class will write several substantive essays, including a final research project. Ideally, the final project will be a collaborative group project on a subject that will be the topic of the 81C culminating project, a creative solution to an environmental problem. Restricted to College Eight students who are concurrently enrolled in CLEI 81B. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50287 WRIT-2-16 Rhetoric & Inquiry MW 05:00 PM -06:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 250 Beard,J. Writing About Music “Without music, life would be a mistake” —Friedrich Nietzsche Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50289 WRIT-2-17 Rhetoric & Inquiry MW 05:00 PM -06:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Hamilton,R.P. Writing Across the Arts Writing Across the Arts is a writing course focused upon poetry and the inter-arts, i.e. , writing that is somehow "cross-genre, " such as performance poetry, prose poetry, music and visual art that includes text. We will study early inter-arts movements such as Futurism, Surrealism, and Dada and compare them to postmodern and recent work. Our main goal is to learn how to write strong analytical essays that emerge from a variety of writing situations, such as reviews, explications, and researched position papers. This course will encourage you to work together as readers of each other's papers. The course will require a significant amount of reading and informal writing for yourself as well as more formal writing for others. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50291 WRIT-2-18 Rhetoric & Inquiry MW 07:00 PM -08:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Hamilton,R.P. Writing Across the Arts Writing Across the Arts is a writing course focused upon poetry and the inter-arts, i.e. , writing that is somehow "cross-genre, " such as performance poetry, prose poetry, music and visual art that includes text. We will study early inter-arts movements such as Futurism, Surrealism, and Dada and compare them to postmodern and recent work. Our main goal is to learn how to write strong analytical essays that emerge from a variety of writing situations, such as reviews, explications, and researched position papers. This course will encourage you to work together as readers of each other's papers. The course will require a significant amount of reading and informal writing for yourself as well as more formal writing for others. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50293 WRIT-2-19 Rhetoric & Inquiry MW 07:00 PM -08:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 250 Rettus,S. Writing about Friendship This class focuses on reading, discussing, and writing about friendship. We will address autobiographical and reflective writing, conceptual analysis, and research. Along the way we will analyze the nature of nature of friendship, explore some philosophical concerns about it, and investigate how the Internet has affected it. Through such explorations we will learn how to brainstorm for topics, analyze arguments, explain concepts, and take to a position on issues that relate to friendship. This is a process-based writing course in which you will produce both formal and informal papers, and will participate in in-class workshops, discussions and editing groups aimed at helping you succeed in your assignments and final research paper. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50295 WRIT-2-20 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 08:00 AM -09:45 AM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Gorsky,S. Finding a Voice Some people and characters cannot speak, at least not in the usual ways, and some cannot “speak their minds.” While some choose silence, others are silenced because of their race, gender, class, politics, language, or religion. As we discuss classic and contemporary essays and short stories by a wide variety of authors, we will explore why people are silenced and how they learn to speak. Students can develop their own voices by participating in group discussions and activities and by writing personal responses, letters, and a series of persuasive and analytic essays. In a research project, students will find, read, and evaluate sources and develop their own position on a relevant topic of their choice. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
51857 WRIT-2-21 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 08:00 AM -09:45 AM Soc Sci 2 167 King,R.Y. Writing About Mass Media In this course, we will explore the ways in which mass media colonize our cultural spaces and influence our values and self-identities. There will be a strong link between analytical reading of essays about the dynamics of mass media and writing convincing arguments about the influence of mass media on society. Three primary tools of inquiry and exploration are essential to our work in this course: essay writing, analytical reading and class discussion. Conscientious engagement with these tools will help students fulfill the most important goal of this class-increasing one's command of the principles of writing effective academic essays. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50297 WRIT-2-22 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 08:00 AM -09:45 AM Kresge Clrm 325 Arthur,D.L. Interrogating Education Why are many students apathetic about what courses they take, the papers they "have" to write? If a course (like this one) is “required,” who’s doing the requiring, and why? And why are the woes of higher education so much in the news – and echoing in the halls of this university? In this class we’ll explore who decides what “good” writing is and who benefits/who is excluded by these criteria, and we’ll investigate who determines what constitutes an “education” and what political/social consequences accrue from various definitions, priorities, and choices. As you dig into debates about what’s wrong with education (are students at fault? or teachers? or administrators? or legislators? or taxpayers? or…?), you’ll become more adept as critical thinkers and interrogators of situations and issues (better able to discern writers’ hidden agendas, competing values, unspoken assumptions, and slippery uses of evidence). And as you learn that professors/professionals read/write/think in ways differently from most students, you’ll become more strategic users of language (more proficient in arguing, organizing, marshalling evidence, and in general employing the “secret codes” of academia, but also able to interrogate the conventions of academic writing). Required texts for this course are Rosenwasser and Stephen’s Writing Analytically (5th ed only), and Graff and Birkenstein’s They Say, I Say (edition w/o readings), as well as a course reader. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50299 WRIT-2-23 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 10:00 AM -11:45 AM Soc Sci 2 167 King,R.Y. Writing About Mass Media In this course, we will explore the ways in which mass media colonize our cultural spaces and influence our values and self-identities. There will be a strong link between analytical reading of essays about the dynamics of mass media and writing convincing arguments about the influence of mass media on society. Three primary tools of inquiry and exploration are essential to our work in this course: essay writing, analytical reading and class discussion. Conscientious engagement with these tools will help students fulfill the most important goal of this class-increasing one's command of the principles of writing effective academic essays. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50301 WRIT-2-24 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 10:00 AM -11:45 AM Kresge Clrm 325 Arthur,D.L. Interrogating Education Why are many students apathetic about what courses they take, the papers they "have" to write? If a course (like this one) is “required,” who’s doing the requiring, and why? And why are the woes of higher education so much in the news – and echoing in the halls of this university? In this class we’ll explore who decides what “good” writing is and who benefits/who is excluded by these criteria, and we’ll investigate who determines what constitutes an “education” and what political/social consequences accrue from various definitions, priorities, and choices. As you dig into debates about what’s wrong with education (are students at fault? or teachers? or administrators? or legislators? or taxpayers? or…?), you’ll become more adept as critical thinkers and interrogators of situations and issues (better able to discern writers’ hidden agendas, competing values, unspoken assumptions, and slippery uses of evidence). And as you learn that professors/professionals read/write/think in ways differently from most students, you’ll become more strategic users of language (more proficient in arguing, organizing, marshalling evidence, and in general employing the “secret codes” of academia, but also able to interrogate the conventions of academic writing). Required texts for this course are Rosenwasser and Stephen’s Writing Analytically (5th ed only), and Graff and Birkenstein’s They Say, I Say (edition w/o readings), as well as a course reader. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50303 WRIT-2-25 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 10:00 AM -11:45 AM Kresge Acad 194 Fatemi,F. Not Just Funny Animals And Superheroes This course will explore the relationship between words and pictures, focusing on graphic novels (commix). The purpose of the course is for each student to discover effective strategies for purposeful and confident writing. We will read graphic novels and critical writing about comics; we will pay special attention to the act of reading words and pictures. We will practice analysis, debate, close reading, and research as we engage contemporary discussions about the contested literary category “graphic novel.” Students will produce a range of formal and informal writing, and will participate in class discussions developing ideas about written and pictorial rhetoric and the craft of making comics. This is a good course both for those who have a prior history with comics and those who don’t. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50305 WRIT-2-26 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 10:00 AM -11:45 AM Merrill Acad 132 Hagen,J.A. Gaia's Revenge This class is designed for those taking the College 8 Core 81B course, Fundamentals of Environmental Science, which will explore climate and ecosystems. We will investigate how to find and make sense out of a variety of readings related to environmental issues and make persuasive arguments about them through understanding rhetorical principles. Students will engage in understanding and communicating concepts in environmental science, including communicating in different media for a variety of audiences and purposes. As in every Writing 2 course, students in this class will write several substantive essays, including a final research project. Ideally, the final project will be a collaborative group project on a subject that will be the topic of the 81C culminating project, a creative solution to an environmental problem. Restricted to College Eight students who are concurrently enrolled in CLEI 81B. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50307 WRIT-2-27 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 10:00 AM -11:45 AM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Arnett,J.M. Writing and Well-Being This course explores the role of written expression in personal and public well-being; defining the term well-being will be an ongoing challenge. Exploring subjects such as music, spirituality, nutrition, sleep, drugs, and emotional trauma, we will utilize poetry, autobiography, interviews, argumentation, and research to better understand how we can be well in this complex world of ours. Journals will play a crucial role in our research, as will a willingness to challenge our assumptions about writing. We will also focus on physical well-being and its relationship to emotional well-being. As field research, each of us will engage in some form of physical activity during the quarter. With writing as a means of discovery, we have much to teach each other. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50309 WRIT-2-28 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 10:00 AM -11:45 AM Merrill Acad 130 Wilson,J.A. Writing about Contemporary Italy In this course we'll explore fiction, nonfiction, and film relevant to important historical and intellectual moments of the past two decades. Fiction includes Italo Calvino’s existential Mr. Palomar, Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel Death’s Dark Abyss, and women writers from Mussolini’s regime. We may also consider the idea of Venice—as a past religious and artistic capital; as a modern museum beset by ecological, industrial, and tourist challenges; and as a place that compels you to re-imagine the city where you were raised. Films include Ciao, Professore! by Lina Wertmuller. Required writing includes textual analysis, creative mimesis, and a substantive research project on a current Italian debate issue such as immigration, prostitution, globalization, feminist cinema, Venice, the Sistine Chapel, etc. You can expect to write five papers, to revise substantively, and to participate in large and small group discussions and workshop sessions. This course should sharpen a number of your analytic and organizational skills—reading, thinking, discussing, and writing—and you should gain confidence in a) constructing and developing a textured university-level discourse and b) understanding and appreciating some important framings of Italian consciousness and culture. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50311 WRIT-2-29 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Merrill Acad 130 Wilson,J.A. Writing about Contemporary Italy In this course we'll explore fiction, nonfiction, and film relevant to important historical and intellectual moments of the past two decades. Fiction includes Italo Calvino’s existential Mr. Palomar, Massimo Carlotto’s crime novel Death’s Dark Abyss, and women writers from Mussolini’s regime. We may also consider the idea of Venice—as a past religious and artistic capital; as a modern museum beset by ecological, industrial, and tourist challenges; and as a place that compels you to re-imagine the city where you were raised. Films include Ciao, Professore! by Lina Wertmuller. Required writing includes textual analysis, creative mimesis, and a substantive research project on a current Italian debate issue such as immigration, prostitution, globalization, feminist cinema, Venice, the Sistine Chapel, etc. You can expect to write five papers, to revise substantively, and to participate in large and small group discussions and workshop sessions. This course should sharpen a number of your analytic and organizational skills—reading, thinking, discussing, and writing—and you should gain confidence in a) constructing and developing a textured university-level discourse and b) understanding and appreciating some important framings of Italian consciousness and culture. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50313 WRIT-2-30 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Kresge Acad 194 Arthur,D.L. Interrogating Education Why are many students apathetic about what courses they take, the papers they "have" to write? If a course (like this one) is “required,” who’s doing the requiring, and why? And why are the woes of higher education so much in the news – and echoing in the halls of this university? In this class we’ll explore who decides what “good” writing is and who benefits/who is excluded by these criteria, and we’ll investigate who determines what constitutes an “education” and what political/social consequences accrue from various definitions, priorities, and choices. As you dig into debates about what’s wrong with education (are students at fault? or teachers? or administrators? or legislators? or taxpayers? or…?), you’ll become more adept as critical thinkers and interrogators of situations and issues (better able to discern writers’ hidden agendas, competing values, unspoken assumptions, and slippery uses of evidence). And as you learn that professors/professionals read/write/think in ways differently from most students, you’ll become more strategic users of language (more proficient in arguing, organizing, marshalling evidence, and in general employing the “secret codes” of academia, but also able to interrogate the conventions of academic writing). Required texts for this course are Rosenwasser and Stephen’s Writing Analytically (5th ed only), and Graff and Birkenstein’s They Say, I Say (edition w/o readings), as well as a course reader. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50315 WRIT-2-31 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Arnett,J.M. Writing and Well-Being This course explores the role of written expression in personal and public well-being; defining the term well-being will be an ongoing challenge. Exploring subjects such as music, spirituality, nutrition, sleep, drugs, and emotional trauma, we will utilize poetry, autobiography, interviews, argumentation, and research to better understand how we can be well in this complex world of ours. Journals will play a crucial role in our research, as will a willingness to challenge our assumptions about writing. We will also focus on physical well-being and its relationship to emotional well-being. As field research, each of us will engage in some form of physical activity during the quarter. With writing as a means of discovery, we have much to teach each other. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50317 WRIT-2-32 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Soc Sci 2 159 Archimedes,S.M. The Consumer Society What does it mean to be living in a consumer society? Does consumerism encourage us to be greedy and materialistic or can it be creative and liberating? What effect does our seemingly bottomless desire for things have on the environment, on the well being of workers, and on our personal happiness? To what extent do large corporations control what we think and how we live? Our readings will examine some of these questions and many others relating to contemporary debates about the impact of commercial culture on our lives. Through spirited discussion and reflective reading, students will be encouraged to become thoughtful critical thinkers, alive to the pleasures of writing and analysis. All students will engage in class discussions, participate in collaborative group work, write several formal and informal papers, and complete the course with a multi-stage research essay. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50319 WRIT-2-33 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Soc Sci 2 167 Baker,M. Sites of Conflict, Reflections of Justice In this course we will read about, explore, and write on a number of contemporary social problems and conflicts. Our work will include--through reading, discussions, and writing--a consideration of different approaches to social justice. We will begin the quarter by reading several short selections, all of which open up a series of challenging and provocative questions. We’ll look at specific issues regarding history, the media, the death penalty, race and class, community membership, as well as other current topics of interest to students in the class. We will also take some time to think about, consider, and write on the different ways that writers, community activists, artists and musicians envision a just society. Readings will include selections by Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Gloria Anzaldúa, bell hooks, Helen Prejean, and others. Students will write several short essays throughout the quarter as well as one longer research paper. We’ll talk quite a bit about and work through different avenues of the writing process, with revision being a major focus of all writing projects. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
55783 WRIT-2-34 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Merrill Acad 132 Hagen,J.A. Gaia's Revenge This class is designed for those taking the College 8 Core 81B course, Fundamentals of Environmental Science, which will explore climate and ecosystems. We will investigate how to find and make sense out of a variety of readings related to environmental issues and make persuasive arguments about them through understanding rhetorical principles. Students will engage in understanding and communicating concepts in environmental science, including communicating in different media for a variety of audiences and purposes. As in every Writing 2 course, students in this class will write several substantive essays, including a final research project. Ideally, the final project will be a collaborative group project on a subject that will be the topic of the 81C culminating project, a creative solution to an environmental problem. Restricted to College Eight students who are concurrently enrolled in CLEI 81B. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
50321 WRIT-2-35 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 02:00 PM -03:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Fazzino,J.M. Writing About Food From celebrity chefs to organic eating, from Fast Food Nation to the Slow Food movement, food has entered the popular imagination as never before. This course will explore the myriad ways people write about food today, paying particular attention to the stylistic modes and rhetorical strategies that writers employ when discussing a topic that is at once intimate and social, a basic necessity and an art form. We will look at restaurant reviews, cookbooks, diet guides, magazine and newspaper articles, blogs, memoirs, cultural and social histories, and other kinds of writing that deal with eating, cooking, the food industry, the politics of consumption, how food shapes personal and group identities, and much more. This course is first and foremost about writing, and its goal is to help you develop your writing through a range of informal and formal assignments that emphasize writing as a process through regular revision, peer workshops, and writing conferences. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
51115 WRIT-2-36 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 02:00 PM -03:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 250 Scherbart,R. Writing about God, Time, Freedom, & Happiness Is there a God? Does time exist? Do we have free will? What does it mean to be happy? These are some of the perennial philosophical issues that we will write about in this course. Readings will include classic and contemporary texts that will simultaneously ignite the writing process and serve as models to emulate. Along the way, students will learn how to fashion their original ideas about these mind-stretching questions into cogent writing by investigating principles of effective argumentative writing and examining examples of effective and ineffective arguments. To this end, we will sharpen our awareness of informal fallacies, rhetorical devices, ambiguity, the importance of definitions, and the distinction between inductive and deductive reasoning through a series of formal and informal writing assignments. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
51117 WRIT-2-37 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 04:00 PM -05:45 PM Kresge Acad 194 Archimedes,S.M. The Consumer Society What does it mean to be living in a consumer society? Does consumerism encourage us to be greedy and materialistic or can it be creative and liberating? What effect does our seemingly bottomless desire for things have on the environment, on the well being of workers, and on our personal happiness? To what extent do large corporations control what we think and how we live? Our readings will examine some of these questions and many others relating to contemporary debates about the impact of commercial culture on our lives. Through spirited discussion and reflective reading, students will be encouraged to become thoughtful critical thinkers, alive to the pleasures of writing and analysis. All students will engage in class discussions, participate in collaborative group work, write several formal and informal papers, and complete the course with a multi-stage research essay. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
51851 WRIT-2-38 Rhetoric & Inquiry Pending. Please check back later.
52165 WRIT-2-39 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 04:00 PM -05:45 PM Kresge Clrm 325 Todd,J.A. Exploring the Human Place in Nature How might people live in physical, mental, and spiritual harmony with the rest of nature? Both Euro-American and indigenous American nonfiction texts will inform our developing understanding of how we as humans can take our appropriate place within nature. Students will enhance writing and rhetorical skills while exploring such questions as these: What assumptions about the nature of nature hamper our capacity to live harmoniously within it? What's the relationship between our own bodies and that of the Earth? How can we, both as a community and individually, make positive contributions to the natural processes that support all life? Students will do extensive informal writing and will share feedback on their academic essays both outside of class and in instructor-facilitated writing groups. Note: Due to my multiple-chemical sensitivity, I need to have a scent-free classroom. I ask that people not wear perfume, scented hair or body products, or clothing smelling of tobacco smoke, fabric softeners, etc., to class. Thank you. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
52209 WRIT-2-40 Rhetoric & Inquiry Pending. Please check back later.
52211 WRIT-2-41 Rhetoric & Inquiry Pending. Please check back later.
53423 WRIT-2-42 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 06:00 PM -07:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Rava,A. Writing our Relationship to Animals What is the nature of the relationship between human beings and the animal kingdom? In this composition course, we will explore the interdependence of humans and animals through critical reading and analytical writing. While animals are a vital and meaningful presence in our collective and individual lives, our attitude towards them is ambivalent and our treatment of them contradictory. We will investigate a wide variety of texts, including pieces by Frans de Waal, Jane Goodall, J.M. Coetzee, George Orwell, and Isaak Dinesen. Thinking and writing about our perceptions of and relationships with animals will help us make ethical determinations about animals’ rights and welfare in human society. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
53429 WRIT-2-45 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 08:00 PM -09:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 250 Moody Telling Our Stories: Autobiography as a Radical Act “The story of the self contains the narrative of the nation.” –Leny Mendoza Strobel “Memory is a form of resistance.” –Virginia Grise What compels us to tell our stories and to listen to the stories of others? How well does what we tell about ourselves convey “the truth”? How do our individual stories contain the stories of our people and “the narrative of the nation”? How can telling our stories be a powerful political act? We will focus on these questions and others as we explore the nature of autobiography. Throughout the quarter we will read, read about, and create autobiography as we strive to develop effective writing strategies. The work of the course will include formal and informal writing assignments (which will involve writing about ourselves as well as interviewing and writing about others), and small group and class discussions. We will also explore methods for inventing and developing ideas, for organizing ideas intentionally, and for drafting, revising, and editing. This course is about the power of telling and the power of listening. Writing helps us to think more clearly, and writing about ourselves and others will help us to better understand who we are and why what we have to say really matters. Please be aware that the talking and writing we’ll be doing will center around the power of our voices and our stories; therefore, in order to take this course, you should be willing to share personal details about your life in discussion and in writing. However, we will respect each person’s right to privacy as well—you will never have to share anything you feel uncomfortable sharing. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
53427 WRIT-2-44 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 08:00 PM -09:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 350 El Dessouky,D. Wave-Writing: The Rhetoric of Surf Culture In this course, we will explore the dynamics of "surf culture"—the set of social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental elements involved in the activity of surfing. This dynamism invites us to think, read, and write about surf culture. Whether we reflect on the images and messages conveyed in a :surf film," aim to understand and respond to the motivations behind localism, or represent our ideas on the debates about coastal cliff erosion and building seawalls, surf culture provides an entire ocean of elements to be curious and write about! The course materials—an array of films, newspaper articles, activist newsletters, magazine features, print advertisements, scholarly essays, and excerpts from novels—will provide the basis for our discussions and will constantly ask you to consider why you find certain materials intriguing, problematic, complicated, and/or convincing. By thinking critically about surf culture and the rhetoric that is a part of it, we will explore the processes involved in making our writing convincing, coherent, fluid and engaging. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
53429 WRIT-2-45 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 08:00 PM -09:45 PM Hum & Soc Sci 250 Moody Telling Our Stories: Autobiography as a Radical Act “The story of the self contains the narrative of the nation.” –Leny Mendoza Strobel “Memory is a form of resistance.” –Virginia Grise What compels us to tell our stories and to listen to the stories of others? How well does what we tell about ourselves convey “the truth”? How do our individual stories contain the stories of our people and “the narrative of the nation”? How can telling our stories be a powerful political act? We will focus on these questions and others as we explore the nature of autobiography. Throughout the quarter we will read, read about, and create autobiography as we strive to develop effective writing strategies. The work of the course will include formal and informal writing assignments (which will involve writing about ourselves as well as interviewing and writing about others), and small group and class discussions. We will also explore methods for inventing and developing ideas, for organizing ideas intentionally, and for drafting, revising, and editing. This course is about the power of telling and the power of listening. Writing helps us to think more clearly, and writing about ourselves and others will help us to better understand who we are and why what we have to say really matters. Please be aware that the talking and writing we’ll be doing will center around the power of our voices and our stories; therefore, in order to take this course, you should be willing to share personal details about your life in discussion and in writing. However, we will respect each person’s right to privacy as well—you will never have to share anything you feel uncomfortable sharing. Please see General Course Description, above, for goals and practices shared by all Writing 2 classes.
WRITING 20: THE NATURE OF WRITTEN DISCOURSEGeneral Course Description: This course explores the dynamics of written language: its relationships to speech, thought, and culture; its uses in different personal, academic, professional, and public contexts; its abuses in jargon and propaganda. Course work includes extensive practice in different kinds of writing. Students will spend the quarter developing a portfolio of revised essays that will be evaluated for the satisfaction of the ELWR. Students will meet weekly with a Writing Assistant. Enrollment Procedures: Seats for Writing 20 classes will open for enrollment to ELWR-unsatisfied students beginning at noon on Friday, December 4. Enrollment is restricted to ELWR-unsatisfied students; additional seats may be opened to other students if space allows.
48675 WRIT-20-01 Written Discourse MWF 09:30 AM -10:40 AM Soc Sci 2 141 Newberry,E.S. In this class, we will read a range of short texts as prompts for a variety of writing exercises. We will use short writing assignments, in-class writing, and discussions in order to explore topics that will lead to longer, more formal essays appropriate for ELWR portfolios. Topics will center on social issues, from popular culture to issues of justice and social change.
In this class, we will read a range of short texts as prompts for a variety of writing exercises. We will use short writing assignments, in-class writing, and discussions in order to explore topics that will lead to longer, more formal essays appropriate for ELWR portfolios. Topics will center on social issues, from popular culture to issues of justice and social change.
48679 WRIT-20-03 Written Discourse MWF 12:30 PM -01:40 PM Crown Clrm 203 Scripture,D.D. This course explores the dynamics of written language: its relationships to speech, thought, and culture; its uses in different personal, academic, professional, and public contexts; its abuses in jargon and propaganda. Course work includes extensive practice in different kinds of writing. Students will spend the quarter developing a portfolio of revised essays that will be evaluated for the satisfaction of the ELWR. Students will meet weekly with a Writing Assistant.
53459 WRIT-20-04 Written Discourse MWF 02:00 PM -03:10 PM Crown Clrm 203 Scripture,D.D. This course explores the dynamics of written language: its relationships to speech, thought, and culture; its uses in different personal, academic, professional, and public contexts; its abuses in jargon and propaganda. Course work includes extensive practice in different kinds of writing. Students will spend the quarter developing a portfolio of revised essays that will be evaluated for the satisfaction of the ELWR. Students will meet weekly with a Writing Assistant.
48681 WRIT-20-05 Written Discourse TTh 04:00 PM -05:45 PM Crown Clrm 203 Weaver,A.L. Course descripton coming soon!
48683 WRIT-20-06 Written Discourse MWF 02:00 PM -03:10 PM Crown Clrm 202 Fitzmaurice,T.R. Course description coming soon!
48685 WRIT-20-07 Written Discourse MWF 03:30 PM -04:40 PM Crown Clrm 202 Fitzmaurice,T.R. Course description coming soon!
48687 WRIT-20-08 Written Discourse TTh 10:00 AM -11:45 AM Cowell Acad 223 Baker,M. Examining and Writing on American Cultures In this course, we'll spend time reading, talking, and writing over questions pertaining to identity and the changing American cultural landscape. Using selections from 50 Essays, we'll look at what it means to be an "American" today. Students will read a range of short essays that will drive our class discussions and provide thought provoking topics on which to write. Along the way, we'll develop strategies to help demystify the writing process. We’ll explore the power of language as we draft and compose papers in a variety of modes. The purpose and practice of revision will also be an integral component of the course. As is standard for Writing 20 classes, students will spend the quarter developing a portfolio of revised essays. Students will also meet weekly with a Writing Assistant.
48689 WRIT-20-09 Written Discourse TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Porter Acad 249 Parmeter,S. In this course, students will have the opportunity to develop their academic writing skills through frequent, varied writing assignments. Thinking Drafts, in response to course readings on contemporary American culture, will be due at most class meetings and will be polished periodically throughout the quarter. In-class activities will cover strategies for developing essays, thinking critically, reading actively, and constructing precise, engaging sentences. All students will be expected to submit a portfolio of polished, revised work at the end of the quarter in lieu of a final exam.
48691 WRIT-20-10 Written Discourse TTh 12:00 PM -01:45 PM Crown Clrm 203 Krusoe,N. We’ll read a variety of essays that are selected and arranged to promote thinking and writing analytically but with a personal connection. Writing assignments will emphasize effective use of language, organizing and editing skills, and the use of strategies needed for academic thinking and writing. Class time will be devoted to large and small-group discussions of our readings and of writing itself, along with critical thinking and writing activities that lead to formal essays. There will be an assignment for each class meeting and a weekly meeting with a writing assistant. At the end of the quarter, each student will turn in several essays that have been carefully revised and edited.
WRITING 159: Grammar for Tutors and Teachers (3 credits)General Course Description: English grammar from a pedagogical perspective, emphasizing structures, patterns, and conventions of written English that commonly challenge basic writers. Students learn strategies for helping multilingual and other writers improve their writing skills by increasing their awareness of grammar. Prerequisite(s): course 169, or by instructor permission. Enrollment limited to 45. 48977 WRIT-159-01 Grammar:Tutor/Teach TTh 04:00 PM -05:45 PM Crown Clrm 208 Krusoe,N. This course presents an overview of English grammar from a pedagogical perspective, with emphasis on the structures, patterns, and conventions of written English that commonly challenge basic and multilingual writers. The course is designed primarily for students who are concurrently employed as peer writing tutors. It is not a grammar class for editing your own work. The concept of the course is that having more awareness of grammar leads to recognizing patterns of language use in student writing (both effective and problematic) and developing strategies to promote language proficiency. The course will focus on surface features of student writing and on language use in a rhetorical context.
|
Catalog Descriptions
Schedule of Classes
Current Classes
Course Materials
Descriptions Archives
