Spring Term Schedule
Spring 2027
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WRTG 104-02
Catherine Schmied Towsley
MW 9:00AM - 11:40AM
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Research, Writing, and Communication builds on the critical reading, writing, and communication skills developed in WRTG 103 by focusing on research. Students engage with traditional library sources, academic journals, and primary research methods such as surveys, interviews, and fieldwork. Through analysis of diverse texts, they develop extended argumentative essays and a research paper while practicing critical reading and response. The course emphasizes integrating source material with original ideas, effective research writing, and collaborative learning through peer critique. Students also strengthen professional communication skills, including interactions within the university community, debate, and formal presentations. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better is required in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Research, and Writing, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students.
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WRTG 104-03
Paige Sloan
TR 4:50PM - 7:30PM
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Research, Writing, and Communication builds on the critical reading, writing, and communication skills developed in WRTG 103 by focusing on research. Students engage with traditional library sources, academic journals, and primary research methods such as surveys, interviews, and fieldwork. Through analysis of diverse texts, they develop extended argumentative essays and a research paper while practicing critical reading and response. The course emphasizes integrating source material with original ideas, effective research writing, and collaborative learning through peer critique. Students also strengthen professional communication skills, including interactions within the university community, debate, and formal presentations. Prerequisites: A grade of C or better is required in WRTG 103: EAPP Critical Reading, Research, and Writing, or permission of EAPP Program for non-EAPP Program students.
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WRTG 105-02
; Kathrin Lachenmaier
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. The future depends on us. Our words have consequences beyond the page, especially in how we think about futures. Therefore, this class will explore questions such as: Who is included or excluded, and who profits from a particular future scenario? Who wields power in these scenarios? How are these imagined futures constructed? To answer these questions students will develop their skills as academic writers, working with scholarly and popular sources that discuss the future in literature, linguistics, and the biomedical sciences. Materials we will work with include short stories by Octavia Butler and Drew Hayden Taylor, films like Avatar, and we will listen to podcasts, such as Dr. Mike’s. By drawing on these sources students will complete formal and informal writing assignments throughout the semester. Students will also develop their argumentative skills through class discussions, peer and instructor feedback, revision, and intensive engagement with class materials. All the exercises, materials, and assignments prepare students to complete an 8–10 page argumentative research paper on topics of their choice related to the theme of the class. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-03
; Caroline Warrick-Schkolnik
MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What are our deepest-rooted societal fears? How are these fears disseminated? Through various formal and informal writing projects this class will examine how urban legends reflect America’s societal anxieties, such as crime, the “racial other,” and the “disintegration of nuclear families.” These fears and more are depicted in urban legends: stories that share similar plots and characteristics, yet transcend boundaries of time, place, and culture, such as “The Vanishing Hitchhiker” or “Sex Bracelets.” We will consider urban legends from cultural, political, and historical viewpoints through the lenses of literary criticism, psychology, philosophy, and film studies. Students will reflect on their own relationships to various urban legends through personal reflections and analytical writings. The course will draw from an array of critical and fictional sources, including the urban legend anthologies and criticisms of Jan Harold Brunvand and Alan Dundes, podcast episodes from American Hysteria and You’re Wrong About, the documentary Killer Legends, and the horror film Urban Legends. Students will hone their research and writing skills and examine cultural fears and biases through class discussions, informal assignments, and three formal assignments that progress through a series of revision, peer feedback, and writer reflection, culminating in an 8-10 argumentative page research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-04
Orisa Morrice
7:00PM - 7:00PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college.
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WRTG 105-05
; Emily Blevins
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What is happiness, and how can we pursue it? To what extent is the pursuit of happiness worthwhile? How can happiness look different on global, cultural, and individual scales? In this course, we will dissect Thomas Jefferson’s commonly used and rarely defined phrase “the pursuit of happiness” by examining sources from diverse disciplines and cultures. Students will engage with source material to build their ideas through reflection, analysis, class discussion, and a series of formal and informal writing assignments. We will examine various sources such as American cognitive scientist Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now, Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, Greek philosopher Epicurus’s The Art of Happiness, the film “The Pursuit of Happyness,” empirical data, music, social media influencers, and short films. Students will develop their own informed perspectives and arguments by critically engaging with the interdisciplinary material, giving and receiving peer feedback, and revising their writing. Our engagement with the course material and formal and informal assignments will culminate in writing a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper at the end of the semester. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-06
Adam Stauffer
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What is the meaning of life? For centuries, a variety of thinkers, cultural traditions, and social movements have attempted to answer this question. In this class, we will consider “the meaning of life” as both a theoretical problem and lived experience using critical reading and discussion, drawing from texts by authors like Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, Jonathan Haidt, Thomas Nagel, and Susan R. Wolf, as well as works ranging from academic scholarship and religious writings to fiction and film. This course invites students to enter this existential conversation by formulating their own ideas through discussion, in-class writing, and formal assignments, and drawing parallels between readings and the dilemmas we face in everyday life. Students will also take part in informal writing, peer response, writer reflection, and revision. The course will culminate in an 8-10-page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-07
Kate Phillips
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. It might seem on first glance that knowledge requires certainty, but with a little reflection it comes to seem instead that we know quite a bit while being certain of extremely little. Experts are sometimes wrong, the data can be misleading or, more radically, we could be living in a Descartes-style massive delusion where our experiences do not match up to reality at all. In this class, we’ll use writing to investigate the role of uncertainty in academic research and our everyday lives. We’ll ask general questions such as: If certainty and knowledge are not synonymous, what is the value of certainty? Is certainty something to be sought after or avoided? How do certainty and uncertainty function in research across the humanities, social, and natural sciences? We will begin with immersive virtual reality experiences to test our senses of certainty. We will engage with a range of popular sources, including a podcast about Lyme disease and the scientific process, and work through research, primarily from philosophy and psychology, on knowledge, experience, and information exchange. Students will be expected to write several argumentative essays, which will go through a process of peer-response, self-reflection, and revision, culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-08
Kate Phillips
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. It might seem on first glance that knowledge requires certainty, but with a little reflection it comes to seem instead that we know quite a bit while being certain of extremely little. Experts are sometimes wrong, the data can be misleading or, more radically, we could be living in a Descartes-style massive delusion where our experiences do not match up to reality at all. In this class, we’ll use writing to investigate the role of uncertainty in academic research and our everyday lives. We’ll ask general questions such as: If certainty and knowledge are not synonymous, what is the value of certainty? Is certainty something to be sought after or avoided? How do certainty and uncertainty function in research across the humanities, social, and natural sciences? We will begin with immersive virtual reality experiences to test our senses of certainty. We will engage with a range of popular sources, including a podcast about Lyme disease and the scientific process, and work through research, primarily from philosophy and psychology, on knowledge, experience, and information exchange. Students will be expected to write several argumentative essays, which will go through a process of peer-response, self-reflection, and revision, culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-09
; Claire Becker
MW 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Since its rise to popularity in the 1990s with hit shows like The Real World and Big Brother, reality TV has captured the attention–and often the outrage–of audiences worldwide. Few would argue that popular reality shows like Naked and Afraid or Kitchen Nightmares reflect reality as most people experience it. What is it, then, that reality TV shows do reflect? Put another way: what is the relationship between this genre and the reality it claims to represent? In this course, we will approach this central question through watching, discussing, reading about, and writing about reality TV. In the process, students will draft, revise, reflect and, ultimately, learn to effectively express ideas and defend arguments about mass culture, consumerism, postmodernity, and more. They will hear from thinkers ranging from 20th-century philosophers like Guy Debord and Theodor Adorno to contemporary journalists like Aubrey Gordon and Michael Hobbes. As the semester unfolds, students will explore, develop, and refine their ideas through formal and informal assignments culminating in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Each assignment constitutes an opportunity for students to engage further with a course-related topic that they find particularly perplexing, compelling or—perhaps—outraging.
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WRTG 105-10
Justin Coyne
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. In this class, you will explore what outdoor adventure has meant to others, and what it means to you. To explore this question, we ask two related questions. First, how does the type of activity and the space in which it takes place shape an understanding of Nature and humanity’s relation to it? Second, how does an activity relate to sociopolitical forces like capitalism or colonialism?
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WRTG 105-11
Laura Whitebell
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Here on the River Campus and in the Medical Center, at the Eastman School and further afield, 1,000 faculty, 12,000 students, and 30,000 staff learn, live, work and play. Even though these spaces are the site of an educational institution, the variety of activities that take place on college campuses make clear that they serve many purposes beyond that of just learning. Universities are also social, cultural, and political spaces where individuals form communities, negotiate identities, and encounter new ideas and perspectives. In this course, we will examine campus life as both a personal experience and a broader institution that reflects larger questions about education, knowledge, belonging and public life. Through class visits and campus events, you will learn about the historical and contemporary site that we think of as our college campus, while scholarly readings will help you to consider the wider implications of university and college life. Class discussion will inspire you to push your ideas further as we consider issues such as education, identity and community. Critical reading assignments and the process of writing and revising will help to inspire discussion and develop knowledge as we share and test out ideas and arguments. Throughout the course, you will engage in informal writing, multimodal composition, self-reflection and peer feedback as you draft and revise three formal writing assignments. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-12
; Nashaly Melendez
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. This course explores exile as a central theme while developing students’ academic writing and critical thinking skills. Rather than approaching exile as only a historical or political condition, the course invites students to examine it as a concept that crosses literature, film, music, and cultural discourse. What constitutes exile? Who defines it? How are displacement, identity, memory, and belonging represented differently across forms and contexts? These questions provide a framework for reading, discussion, and writing throughout the semester. Students will critically engage with literary, visual, and cultural texts that examine displacement, identity, memory, and belonging across diverse contexts and media, including Ocean Vuong’s poem “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong,” excerpts from Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, Bad Bunny’s “El Apagón,” and Childish Gambino’s “This Is America.” Through close reading, discussion, reflection, and analysis, students will consider how arguments are communicated not only through language, but also through image, sound, and form. Along with class discussion, students will develop their writing through informal and formal assignments that emphasize inquiry, rhetorical awareness, and argumentation. Formal writing assignments will undergo drafting, peer response, and revision, culminating in an 8–10 page argumentative research paper connected to the course’s broader themes of exile and belonging. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-13
Matt Bayne
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Do clothes make the person, or does the person make the clothes? When did clothes begin expressing personal identity? How have clothes been traditionally used to encode social differences, from class to gender? This course will approach these questions from a variety of perspectives—from literature to economics, political science to art history. Likewise, the course will reflect diverse texts: Vogue, The Devil Wear’s Prada, discourses on dress and gender in Victorian culture, and current debates on imposing uniforms in public schools. These issues will be explored through a variety of informal and formal writing assignments, the latter foregrounding a process that includes peer-response and self-assessment. Writing will be the link to explore class concepts, as well as argument, audience, context, and purpose. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-14
Karl Mohn
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. In the US, comics are often relegated to the Sunday Funnies or denigrated as cartoons for children. But images can express ideas that are difficult to articulate in words, and comics can bring these modes together in beautiful and startling ways. But how do comics “work”? Why do we think of comics as kids’ books while most readers are adults? Are there stories that can only be told in comics? To answer these questions, we will engage in scholarly research and analyze exemplary texts including the biographical Holocaust narrative, Maus, and superheroes facing apocalypse in Watchmen. Through reading, writing, and discussion we will explore comics in terms of form and narrative; we’ll look at the specific strengths of comics in relation to other media. Alongside this exploration, students will develop academic writing strategies through self-reflection, peer review, and revision. Assignments will include an 8-10 page argumentative research paper and will culminate in a multimodal project of their own design. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-15
; Juan Espinosa
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What comes to mind when you read about the human body? What makes a ‘normal’ body? What about a transgressive body? How do intersections of medicine, gender, and religion inform how the body was viewed in the Middle Ages and how we approach it now? You will explore these questions in this course, make connections, and take an argumentative position. Whether you’re interested in biology, psychology, English, or philosophy, this class offers an interdisciplinary approach to texts and media conveying different approaches to the body. As writers, you’ll engage with and argue about the body’s versatility, refining your thinking through informal and formal writing assignments such as reflections, short essays, and peer feedback, culminating in an argumentative 8–10-page research paper. Your discussions and assignments will provide a space for you to create a final paper topic that interests you. Texts include selections from the Bible, selections from patristic sources (including Galen and Augustine), The Life of Christina of Hane, “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” as well as films such as Pope Joan (2009) and The Green Knight (2021). You will also engage with the criticism of scholars such as Carolyn Walker Bynum, Tison Pugh, Barbara Creed, and Monica Green. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-16
M. Kristana Textor
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Play and games have been at the heart of the human experience for centuries. When we play, we learn, and video games are increasingly a part of this tradition. What conversations are we having about games and play in our society, and why do they matter? Where does power lie in the world of games, design, and development? How do we perform identity when we play? How are games impacting social change and behavior? Students will raise authentic questions as they write about games from a variety of lenses: design, narrative, psychology, gender, genre, and more. We will not only play video games as primary texts, but also discuss, analyze, evaluate, and write about our interactions with and stances towards video games. Our work will involve writing exercises, multimodal elements, peer feedback, formal essays, reflection, revision, and a supportive writing environment. We will analyze peer-reviewed articles, Ralph Koster’s illustrated book A Theory of Fun, and literature from game-studies luminaries such as Gee, Squire, McGonigal, and Ito. Students will culminate their efforts towards becoming better writers in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. All disciplines and levels of interest in critiquing games are welcome, no expertise is required.
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WRTG 105-19
Dustin Hannum
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Haunted houses. Blood-sucking vampires. Spell-casting witches. Undead zombie hordes. As a genre (and collection of subgenres), horror is rife with familiar story conventions. While many of these transcend cultural boundaries, what each culture does with them speaks to the experiences of the people within that culture. So what does it mean to call a scary story an “American” horror story? How do horror stories, and the tropes they rely on, reflect fears and anxieties about social issues and questions of identity in American culture? Can those same tropes also be used by writers and filmmakers to critique those fears and anxieties? In this class, students will explore such questions as a way of developing as college-level writers and thinkers. We will read stories such as Poe’s William Wilson and watch movies such as The Shining and Candyman, and confront arguments about horror’s role in American culture from multiple disciplines and multiple genres (like op-eds and podcasts). Students will join in the discussion about these issues, composing a series of informal responses and short formal assignments leading up to an 8-10pp argumentative research paper. The class will emphasize all aspects of the writing process, including peer and instructor feedback, revision, and writer-reflection.
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WRTG 105-20
; Abdullah Shaikh
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What is self-help? Why is there a growing demand for practical literature that aims to move us towards becoming better versions of ourselves? How do self-help books promote a specific mode of reading? Does advice-giving still hold a place amongst the many uses of literature? In this course, we will investigate the self-help genre through dialogue, discussion, and academic writing. We will chart the origins of the genre from its earlier roots such as The Analects of Confucius and Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic to its modern turn popularized by books such as Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life. We will observe how self-help has resonated with different groups throughout history while drawing the ire and condescension of others who refuse to consider it as serious literature. Through formal and informal writing, students will learn to formulate well-structured and coherent arguments. Formal assignments will be refined through a process of reflection, peer review, and instructor feedback. Our work will culminate in an 8-10 page argumentative research paper that demonstrates student ability to engage in a critical conversation around the self-help genre.
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WRTG 105-22
Solveiga Armoskaite
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Is dance the most universal art form? Before we speak, we move. From birth we use motion to express what words cannot yet carry. Isn't there a dancer in each of us? This interdisciplinary course asks what we learn through dance — and how to give voice, in writing and in speech, to an art form that is defined by its refusal of words. Students will use dance as a lens to sharpen their argumentation, discovering their own "inner dancer" along the way through a series of small informal assignments, reflections, and structured peer feedback. Through screenings and live performances, we'll build dance literacy movement using the vocabulary of its core elements. From there, we'll have a choice to examine dance through cultural, political, aesthetic, and social frameworks. The course then moves into critical analysis, studying the work of dance scholars such as Anna Kisselgoff, Deborah Jowitt, Judith Hannah, and Arlene Croce. Students will practice oral review presentations, developing the skills of constructive critical dialogue about movement. Throughout, students will draft and revise three formal assignments, treating writing — like dance — as a practice built through iteration The semester culminates in the 8-10-page argumentative research paper, where students pursue an aspect of dance of their own choosing. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-23
Rachel O'Donnell
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What do we understand about global feminist contributions to knowledge and understandings of equality? What do these contributions mean around the world? We will use writing as a tool to explore these questions and engage with the relationship between feminist theory and practice. Arguments around issues of power, health, sexuality, work, and family will be used to inform our writing and class discussions, as we consider how these issues affect people across races, genders, classes, nations, and sexualities. We will begin with academic texts from Chandra Mohanty and activist testimonies from human rights organizations to enter these debates. Coursework will prioritize peer response, reflective writing, revision, and the creation of an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-26
; Elizabeth McKay
TR 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Chit-chat, banter, dialogue, small-talk, discourse, debate—What is the value of conversation in our lives? How do modern technologies help or hinder our conversations? And what, after all, are conversations for? In this class we will think together about conversation in its many forms, asking questions about the cultural, psychological and political significance of conversation from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. As we read and talk, we will also actively explore this topic through several small writing assignments, considering the ways that the writing and research process—including reflection, peer feedback, and revision—is itself a form of conversation across time and space. From Plato’s dialogues to rom-com banter to analyzing a Chat-GPT transcript, the material we engage with in class will help us explore the role of conversation in developing ideas, changing minds, and creating connections—and, of course, we will see wherever else our class discussions take us! Students will then have the opportunity to further engage any aspect of this topic that interests them through an 8-10 page argumentative research essay. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-28
; James Kim
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. A recent term "vibe coding" designates a rising trend in computer programing in which the actual labor of producing codes is wholly relegated to AI-assistants while the human agent enjoys its "vibe." Given that AIs also generate actual writing samples, does this trend summarize a broader shift in writing at large? When the tedious part of translating our ideas into real words can be easily outsourced, to which point could we claim to have "written" a piece of writing? In this course, we will discuss and write about the idea of textual ownership in the AI era. Starting from traditional authorship where a single writer thinks and writes by oneself, we will proceed to more grey areas like ghostwriting where ideas and the writing act begin to fall apart. Using texts by old and new writers like John Keats and J. M. Coetzee alongside current popular and scholarly sources on AI, students will critically approach AI-related issues from discussions on textual ownership. Formal and informal writing assignments, peer feedback, and reflections will help articulate these perspectives. This course will conclude with a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper related to the course theme. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-29
Matt Bayne
MW 9:00AM - 10:15AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Andy Warhol famously said, “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” In a world of reality TV, influencer-celebrities, and virality, Warhol’s claim seems prophetic. But what role does fame play in our culture? What are the costs of fame? Does it serve as a surrogate for religion in an increasingly secular world? These questions will be explored through an ongoing process of inquiry and writing across a variety of disciplines: cultural studies, film, literature, anthropology, political science, and economics (amongst others). We will encounter popular texts like Britney Spears’s celeb-memoir The Woman in Me, Lady Gaga’s album The Fame Monster, and George Cukor’s version of A Star is Born along with scholarly meditations by Jonathan Goldman and David Schmid. By foregrounding strategies such as revision, personal reflection, peer response, and more, the course will call on students to develop their critical writing and communication abilities while exploring how fame shapes us and our larger world(s). The culmination of each student’s work will be an 8-10-page argumentative research paper on course themes, as well as a multimodal project designed to engage audiences beyond the classroom. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-31
Dustin Hannum
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Haunted houses. Blood-sucking vampires. Spell-casting witches. Undead zombie hordes. As a genre (and collection of subgenres), horror is rife with familiar story conventions. While many of these transcend cultural boundaries, what each culture does with them speaks to the experiences of the people within that culture. So what does it mean to call a scary story an “American” horror story? How do horror stories, and the tropes they rely on, reflect fears and anxieties about social issues and questions of identity in American culture? Can those same tropes also be used by writers and filmmakers to critique those fears and anxieties? In this class, students will explore such questions as a way of developing as college-level writers and thinkers. We will read stories such as Poe’s William Wilson and watch movies such as The Shining and Candyman, and confront arguments about horror’s role in American culture from multiple disciplines and multiple genres (like op-eds and podcasts). Students will join in the discussion about these issues, composing a series of informal responses and short formal assignments leading up to an 8-10pp argumentative research paper. The class will emphasize all aspects of the writing process, including peer and instructor feedback, revision, and writer-reflection.
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WRTG 105-32
Adam Stauffer
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Who are we? Why are we here? What, after all, is human nature? As a species, we have long wondered what drives us, what makes us unique, why we are the way we are. In this class, we will examine the question of human nature from various perspectives, including science, religion, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and animal studies. We will analyze these viewpoints using writing, critical reading, and discussion, drawing from authors like Carl Sagan, Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Paul Bloom, and Todd May, as well as texts ranging from academic scholarship and popular journalism to fiction and film. Students will take part in informal writing, peer response, writer reflection, and revision. The course will culminate in an 8-10-page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-33
; Md Mamunur Rashid
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. In this course, we will explore how the synergy of writing, photography, and AI enhances storytelling and creative expression. We will engage with two pivotal questions: How do photography and writing, each with its unique way of capturing and depicting reality, interweave to complement one another? And, in what ways does AI redefine the boundaries, potentialities, and intersections of these creative expressions? You will explore on-campus/online exhibitions, take photos in photo walks around the campus, and write formal and informal papers such as photo essays, blogs, etc. Readings will include texts such as On Writing with Photography by Beckman and Weissberg and The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future between the Eye and AI by Joanna Zylinska. You will also explore how notable photojournalists and AI artists, like Graeme Green and Boris Eldagsen, use these mediums for their creative and professional pursuits. As you reflect on these activities in discussions and writings, you will develop your own response to the issues pertaining to the course theme. This will culminate in an 8-10-page argumentative final research paper. The formal assignments, including the research paper, will undergo peer feedback, reflection, and revision before submission.
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WRTG 105-35
Justin Coyne
MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. In this class, you will explore what outdoor adventure has meant to others, and what it means to you. To explore this question, we ask two related questions. First, how does the type of activity and the space in which it takes place shape an understanding of Nature and humanity’s relation to it? Second, how does an activity relate to sociopolitical forces like capitalism or colonialism?
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WRTG 105-38
Suzanne Woodring
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. The brain is complex. It is responsible for countless functions from storage and retrieval of memories to reflexive responses to stimuli. How does it allow us to interact with the world through sensory input and active output as we think, speak, and write? What happens in the brain when we shift between these everyday tasks? In this course, we will explore how these intertwined functions compare cognitively and how each contributes to communication from neurological, cognitive, and behavioral perspectives. The works of Steven Pinker, V. S. Ramachandran, as well as other scholarly and popular sources will be investigated through informal and formal writing experiences. This course emphasizes the importance of the writing process through writer-reflection, peer feedback, and revision. The culmination is an 8 to 10 page research paper where you will develop an argument that is informed by your perspective and the existing research. You will also highlight your findings through a multimodal presentation.
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WRTG 105-41
; Apoorv Pandey
MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Illness is a universal experience. But our embodied experiences of illness, and the narratives we use to make sense of those experiences, differ widely. In this course, we will consider, through writing, the complex relations between illness and narrative. What are the different genres and forms in which illness has been, and can be, narrated? How do identities and histories shape narratives of illness and the way we understand those narratives? How might narratives facilitate, hinder, or otherwise affect the movement from illness to healing? To explore these questions, we will read and discuss creative and scholarly materials, and craft our own informed arguments via informal and formal writing assignments. Course texts will include Dana Walrath’s graphic memoir Aliceheimer’s; the movie Erin Brockovich; essays like “Illness as Metaphor” by Susan Sontag; case studies like the Bhopal Gas Tragedy; and scholarship from fields like disability studies, medical humanities, and political economy. Through our collective engagement with these texts, we will hone our writing, critical thinking, and research skills, and enter ongoing scholarly conversations about illness and its narratives. All formal writing will undergo a process of self-reflection, peer feedback, and revision to help students develop course-theme-related arguments that will culminate in an 8-10-page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-43
Justin Coyne
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. In this class, you will explore what outdoor adventure has meant to others, and what it means to you. To explore this question, we ask two related questions. First, how does the type of activity and the space in which it takes place shape an understanding of Nature and humanity’s relation to it? Second, how does an activity relate to sociopolitical forces like capitalism or colonialism?
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WRTG 105-45
Karl Mohn
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. In the US, comics are often relegated to the Sunday Funnies or denigrated as cartoons for children. But images can express ideas that are difficult to articulate in words, and comics can bring these modes together in beautiful and startling ways. But how do comics “work”? Why do we think of comics as kids’ books while most readers are adults? Are there stories that can only be told in comics? To answer these questions, we will engage in scholarly research and analyze exemplary texts including the biographical Holocaust narrative, Maus, and superheroes facing apocalypse in Watchmen. Through reading, writing, and discussion we will explore comics in terms of form and narrative; we’ll look at the specific strengths of comics in relation to other media. Alongside this exploration, students will develop academic writing strategies through self-reflection, peer review, and revision. Assignments will include an 8-10 page argumentative research paper and will culminate in a multimodal project of their own design.
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WRTG 105-46
; Amelia Gradt
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. How has language shaped you, privately and publicly? How has it shaped your beliefs and interests, or influenced your assumptions about society? How do the stories we read, write, and tell influence the cultures we are born into or adopt? This course will investigate these questions across a wide array of academic disciplines and contexts, exploring how language, identity, and culture shape the ways we think and write. Discussion topics will include how language influences education in films such as Dead Poets Society, and how music videos communicate linguistic ownership and self-expression in the digital age. Martha C. Nussbaum’s theory of “literary imagination” and Anna Kornbluh’s critique of “cultural immediacy” will further invite students to examine the role language plays in shaping cultural identity. These sources, along with other selections from critical scholarship and popular media, will assist students in developing their critical thinking skills and provide material for writing exercises designed to refine and expand their research interests. Peer response, reflection, discussion, and short-form essay assignments will prepare students to compose a final 8-10-page argumentative research paper on a subject of their choosing. This paper should challenge and expand upon themes, activities, and insights developed during the course. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-47
; Kexin Zhang
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What makes something a “wonder”? What makes it a “monster” or a “marvel”? In this writing-centered course, we use accounts of strange creatures, extraordinary events, and unfamiliar worlds as a testing ground for academic argument. How do texts and images ask us to believe — through their form as much as the content? What counts as evidence? What rhetorical moves make a claim persuasive to different audiences, especially across cultural and religious traditions? Students will read, analyze, and write about excerpts from medieval texts such as Beowulf, The Wonders of the East and Melusine, alongside non-textual sources, such as manuscript marginal images, modern films, games, and visual arts. Using selected digital humanities resources, we will examine how wonders are collected, classified, and compared across time and cultures. To bring in a comparative lens, we will place selected passages from non-Western traditions into conversation, asking how different cultural archives name the unknown and classify “the abnormal.” Writing is the primary work of the course. Class discussion, writing, peer response, self-reflection, and revisions will be central to the course. Students will compose and revise several writing assignments, including an 8–10 page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-49
Rob Rich
MW 6:15PM - 7:30PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. One of the greatest intellectual problems of modern existence is knowing who and what to believe. Even as we pride ourselves on skepticism and independent thinking, we recognize the limits of our own knowledge and the pragmatic need to take some information on authority. Deferring to the judgment of experts may be a generally sound rule to follow, but applying this rule can get complicated. Is it possible for the work of experts to be corrupt, biased, or philosophically misguided? When are outsiders of an academic field intellectually justified in criticizing the conclusions of insiders? How can we distinguish legitimate criticism of authority from that which results from ignorance, paranoia, vested interest, or political bias? The readings for this course will include passages from works like Naomi Oreskes’s and Erik M. Conway’s Merchants of Doubt (2010) and Marion Nestle’s Unsavory Truth (2018). We will explore a variety of controversies in areas as diverse as human health, economics, law, and art criticism. Assignments will include both informal responses and formal essays, culminating with an argumentative research paper. Expectations include commitment to self-assessment, revision, and peer feedback.
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WRTG 105-50
; Xinyue Wang
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What is “belonging”? What does it do for individuals physically, mentally, emotionally, and socially? Scholars in a variety of disciplines have studied and recognized belonging as a fundamental human need with a profound impact on individuals’ well-being. Still, people understand and experience belonging differently. How do individuals differently experience belonging? And how does it affect them? How could individuals create a sense of belonging in different contexts, such as family, college, the workplace, social media, and society? And what does it take to create a culture of belonging in these contexts? In this class, we will focus on the intricacies of belonging and explore these questions through reading, discussions, and writing. Course texts will include a range of scholarly articles, op-eds, U of R’s diversity and inclusion statements, essays and books by writers such as bell hooks and Amy Tan, and short films such as Pixar’s Purl. You will also learn to research, reflect, and write to develop your own inquiries and engage with yourself and others in both informal and formal writing. Through a process of drafting, peer response, and revision, you will develop and support your ideas in shorter formal assignments and a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-51
; Abbie Boudreaux
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. Though Disney is often what we initially associate with the phrase “beauty and the beast,” when we peer a bit closer, we can see that this beauty and the beast trope is prevalent in many forms of media. Through reading a translation of the original fairytale written by Gabrielle- Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, and exploring other popular retellings, like Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, we will investigate, through reflective and argumentative informal and formal writing assignments, the following questions: What constitutes a beauty and the beast story? What is it about this trope that we find compelling? How does its repetition affect us? When and how do we define something or someone as “beautiful,” as “beastly”? Over the course of the semester, we will attempt to answer these questions, and others through various critical lenses like gender and sexuality, psychology, anthropology, and disability studies, while engaging with and producing diverse forms of written work. This class collaboration will provide students with the necessary skills, like peer response, self-reflection, and revision, to produce several formal writing assignments, including a final 8-10-page argumentative research paper by the semester’s end.
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WRTG 105-52
; Ewa Maria White
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. What does it truly mean to “come of age” in America, and who gets to define it? In this class, students will use their writing skills to investigate ideas on how adulthood is imagined, insisted, and resisted by American society, in addition to how individual self-exploration affects these realities. American ideals of adolescence follow us everywhere, whether it be at home, at school, in religious circles, or in the media, and everyone seems to have a different opinion! Through class discussions, reflections, peer feedback, and written assignments, we will explore the complex historical, economic, psychological, cultural, and political implications behind “coming of age” in America. We will examine how narratives of adolescence and adulthood have shifted throughout American history, and how these cultural shifts have and continue to affect young adults in the modern era, both positively and negatively. We will engage with materials relating to the historical “creation” of adulthood, the “Brat Pack” film era, the Millennial/Gen Z housing crisis, the theories of Carl Jung and Erik Erikson, and medical studies on adolescence. Students will build toward a final 8-10 page argumentative research paper that demonstrates the ideas and skills they have developed throughout the course. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105-71
Zachary Barber
7:00PM - 7:00PM
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college.
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WRTG 105A-01
Suzanne Woodring
TR 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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WRTG 105A (Fall) and WRTG 105B (Spring) distribute the work of WRTG 105E across two semesters, with WRTG 105A covering the first half of WRTG 105E. WRTG 105A immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise two short argumentative essays. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. What does it mean to be mindful? How does it help during the writing process? What are the practices of a mindful writer? Mindfulness refers to the mental state of directing one’s attention to the present moment, and its benefits expand to a variety of domains, such as emotional well-being and cognition. This course will broadly focus on these benefits while primarily examining the act of being mindful as a writing tool. Students will take part in mindful practices including reflexive writing, focused attention exercises, and light mediation to support the writing process. They will also learn about mindfulness perspectives from Ellen Langer, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and other scholars in the field. This course emphases the importance of argument development through informal and formal writing assignments and contemplative practices, such as writer reflection, peer feedback, and revision. By the end of the course, students will have compiled mindful techniques to use in a variety of writing contexts. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105B-03
Suzanne Woodring
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.
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WRTG 105B-04
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
TR 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.
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WRTG 105B-06
Paige Sloan
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.
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WRTG 105B-07
James Otis
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement.
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WRTG 105E-03
Liz Tinelli
MW 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-04 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION
Advancements in engineering affect almost every aspect of our society, but what is the nature of this impact? How do engineering solutions influence the social, cultural, and environmental contexts within which they are implemented? Students will explore questions such as these by using writing as a tool for inquiry, discovery, and knowledge construction. In constructing new knowledge, students will also learn how to navigate ethical issues around proper attribution of ideas, as this is important to both writers and engineers. Class discussions, readings, and informal assignments will work together to inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative essays, an 8-10 page research paper, and a multimodal composition for a public audience. Through peer response and self-assessment, students will learn how to effectively communicate with a variety of audiences.
YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-04 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION
To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105E-04
Liz Tinelli
M 3:25PM - 4:15PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. Advancements in engineering affect almost every aspect of our society, but what is the nature of this impact? How do engineering solutions influence the social, cultural, and environmental contexts within which they are implemented? Students will explore questions such as these by using writing as a tool for inquiry, discovery, and knowledge construction. In constructing new knowledge, students will also learn how to navigate ethical issues around proper attribution of ideas, as this is important to both writers and engineers. Class discussions, readings, and informal assignments will work together to inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative essays, an 8-10 page research paper, and a multimodal composition for a public audience. Through peer response and self-assessment, students will learn how to effectively communicate with a variety of audiences.
To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105E-05
; Arthur Tapia
MW 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-06 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION What is it about “shapeshifting” that has so fascinated us throughout history? In what ways does the figure of the “shapeshifter” reveal our own anxieties, desires, and fantasies about becoming something unfamiliar, something new? We will work through these questions by using writing as a form of conversation and critical thinking. To accomplish this, we will practice a variety of writing including journaling, notetaking, outlining, and essay writing. From cyborgs and Windigos, to the experience of aging and the changing of seasons, we will explore the many ways in which shapeshifting shifts through our everyday lives by way of movies, literature, scholarly articles, manga, and documentaries including acclaimed works such as Coralie Fargeat’s film The Substance, Franz Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis,” and excerpts from Junji Ito’s manga Uzumaki. The primary goal of the course will be to familiarize ourselves with the academic writing process through informal and formal writing, peer feedback, reflection, and guided revisions. By the end of the semester, we will use these processes to write an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-06 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105E-06
; Arthur Tapia
F 3:25PM - 4:15PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. What is it about “shapeshifting” that has so fascinated us throughout history? In what ways does the figure of the “shapeshifter” reveal our own anxieties, desires, and fantasies about becoming something unfamiliar, something new? We will work through these questions by using writing as a form of conversation and critical thinking. To accomplish this, we will practice a variety of writing including journaling, notetaking, outlining, and essay writing. From cyborgs and Windigos, to the experience of aging and the changing of seasons, we will explore the many ways in which shapeshifting shifts through our everyday lives by way of movies, literature, scholarly articles, manga, and documentaries including acclaimed works such as Coralie Fargeat’s film The Substance, Franz Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis,” and excerpts from Junji Ito’s manga Uzumaki. The primary goal of the course will be to familiarize ourselves with the academic writing process through informal and formal writing, peer feedback, reflection, and guided revisions. By the end of the semester, we will use these processes to write an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105E-07
; Yash Chitrakar
TR 4:50PM - 6:05PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-08 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION Sympathy plays a role in our social interactions and moral decisions. It is—arguably—affected by aesthetics (i.e., the ways in which ideas, emotions, events, people etc. are represented or present themselves). In this course, we will use writing to investigate what sympathy is and explore its connections with aesthetics. For instance, does aesthetics affect how we give (or withhold) sympathy? Is it possible to think of sympathy without aesthetics? What are the social consequences that result from the connection between aesthetics and sympathy? These questions will be explored through class dialogue, writing, and case examples: David Foster Wallace’s meditation on the ethics of eating lobsters, Hayao Miyazaki’s movie, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which ponders the possibility of connection between humans and non-humans, video essays about how games use visual language and game mechanics to generate empathy etc. We will investigate the connections between aesthetics and sympathy through writing that will range from informal exploratory writing to formal writing that will follow a process of drafting, revision, peer feedback, and self-reflection. Students will learn and apply the conventions of academic writing, culminating in an 8-10-page argumentative research paper as a final formal assignment, one that can be approached from multiple disciplines.
To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105E-08
; Yash Chitrakar
F 2:00PM - 2:50PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. Sympathy plays a role in our social interactions and moral decisions. It is—arguably—affected by aesthetics (i.e., the ways in which ideas, emotions, events, people etc. are represented or present themselves). In this course, we will use writing to investigate what sympathy is and explore its connections with aesthetics. For instance, does aesthetics affect how we give (or withhold) sympathy? Is it possible to think of sympathy without aesthetics? What are the social consequences that result from the connection between aesthetics and sympathy? These questions will be explored through class dialogue, writing, and case examples: David Foster Wallace’s meditation on the ethics of eating lobsters, Hayao Miyazaki’s movie, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which ponders the possibility of connection between humans and non-humans, video essays about how games use visual language and game mechanics to generate empathy etc. We will investigate the connections between aesthetics and sympathy through writing that will range from informal exploratory writing to formal writing that will follow a process of drafting, revision, peer feedback, and self-reflection. Students will learn and apply the conventions of academic writing, culminating in an 8-10-page argumentative research paper as a final formal assignment, one that can be approached from multiple disciplines. To fulfill the primary writing requirement, a student must earn a grade of C or higher.
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WRTG 105E-09
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-10 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION Language lets us share with others thoughts once trapped inside our own mind, but it’s also been argued to shape or constrain those thoughts. Are our minds shaped by the language we speak? Does language make the human mind special? How should we think about developments in AI and machine translation that have brought machines closer to using language like humans? Could these machines have minds, and how would we know? Our interdisciplinary inquiry will consider a wide variety of perspectives — from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and AI — and also explore how these themes play out in TV, movies, and literature. We’ll draw upon concepts from cognitive science and linguistics to learn to produce effective written arguments that are clear and engaging for readers, working towards a research project in which you develop an argument connecting the interdisciplinary themes of the class to your own interests. YOU MUST REGISTER FOR RECITATION WRTG 105E-10 WHEN REGISTERING FOR THIS SECTION
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WRTG 105E-10
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
F 11:50AM - 12:40PM
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. Language lets us share with others thoughts once trapped inside our own mind, but it’s also been argued to shape or constrain those thoughts. Are our minds shaped by the language we speak? Does language make the human mind special? How should we think about developments in AI and machine translation that have brought machines closer to using language? Could these machines have minds, and how would we know? Our interdisciplinary inquiry will consider a wide variety of perspectives — from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, and AI — and also explore how these themes play out in TV, movies, and literature. These discussions and readings will inform the drafting and revision of two short argumentative papers. We’ll draw upon concepts from cognitive science to develop ideas about how to produce effective written arguments that are clear and engaging for readers, and work to ensure each student builds confidence in their role as academic writers.
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WRTG 108-01
Suzanne Woodring
M 2:00PM - 2:50PM
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WRTG 108 is a weekly workshop that offers ongoing practice and instruction in writing and critiquing writing. Students meet weekly with the instructor to work on writing projects relevant to their writing goals. These forms might include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, lab reports, personal statements, and cover letters, among other texts. Students may also choose to revise essays completed in previous semesters. Students plan, draft and revise their projects, critique each other's work, assess their own writing, participate in group sessions on common writing issues, and individual sessions tailored to their writing goals. The semester's work will culminate in a final portfolio that features polished essays and a reflection on their work and their development as writers. Open to students who have completed the Primary Writing Requirement, or by WSAP permission. 2-credits, pass/fail
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WRTG 108-2
Matt Bayne
M 11:50AM - 12:40PM
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WRTG 108 is a weekly workshop that offers ongoing practice and instruction in writing and critiquing writing. Students meet weekly with the instructor to work on writing projects relevant to their writing goals. These forms might include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, lab reports, personal statements, and cover letters, among other texts. Students may also choose to revise essays completed in previous semesters. Students plan, draft and revise their projects, critique each other's work, assess their own writing, participate in group sessions on common writing issues, and individual sessions tailored to their writing goals. The semester's work will culminate in a final portfolio that features polished essays and a reflection on their work and their development as writers. Open to students who have completed the Primary Writing Requirement, or by WSAP permission. 2-credits, pass/fail
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WRTG 109-01
Zachary Barber
7:00PM - 7:00PM
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This course offers ongoing support, practice, and tutoring in writing. Students meet weekly with writing consultants to work on academic writing from other courses. Forms of writing may include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, and lab reports, among others. Students will participate in writing groups to plan, draft and revise their writing, as well as engage regularly in one-on-one tutoring sessions with consultants. This course serves to support students in writing rigorously at the college level, and thus it is particularly encouraged for students concurrently enrolled in writing-intensive courses.
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WRTG 247-01
Laura Whitebell
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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Prepares selected sophomores, juniors, and eligible first-year students for work as Speaking Fellows. This course focuses not only on the skill of public speaking, but also on peer tutoring and assisting students with their own forms of spoken communication. In this course, we will examine various components of presentations, including effective use of visual aids and professional delivery styles. We will also explore several types of spoken communication for different purposes and audiences, including argumentative and descriptive speeches, interviews, and group presentations. Through analyzing, studying the construction of, and creating and delivering their own presentations, students will improve their own speaking styles and develop the skills necessary to aid their peers in constructing and revising presentations. By the end of the semester, students should be ready to take on their own hours as peer tutors. This course satisfies a requirement for the Citation for Achievement in College Leadership. Restrictions: Instructor's permission required
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WRTG 250-01
Solveiga Armoskaite
MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This course is a comprehensive review of the grammar of Modern Standard English. The course will be of interest to those who wish to sharpen their language skills, or to know more about the workings of the English language whether for practical, cognitive or creative ends. Drawing on work in mostly pre-theoretical, descriptive linguistics this course reveals the mechanics of Standard English structure, with occasional detours into the finesse of usage across registers (dialect to slang). Students will learn to develop the ability to see patterns in grammar, as well as its structural possibilities and limits. Assignments will regularly involve reflection on form, usage and speaker judgments. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of an English variety available to them. Throughout, students will be working with their data samples of English to explore how speaker choices lead to particular grammatical structures or yield ungrammaticality. Background in linguistics or grammar not needed.
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WRTG 252-01
Dustin Hannum
MW 11:50AM - 1:05PM
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While the term copyediting may be associated with journalism or literary fiction, in fact it is a vital component of the publication of almost any textual materials from scholarly and popular publishing in arts and sciences to corporate and technical communications. So what do copy editors do? Is copyediting simply about enforcing rules of correctness? When is it okay to break those rules, or to allow others to do so, and what guides such decisions? How do copy editors understand and negotiate the relationships and interests of readers, writers, and the publications they work for? How has the information age changed the way copy editors think about and approach textual editing? In this class we will address both the principles and practices of copyediting. Students will learn the principles that guide copy editors, and then put these principles into use in a workshop setting, practicing copyediting in a variety of contexts, including digital communications. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement.
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WRTG 261-01
Liz Tinelli
MW 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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The purpose of writing in a digital world is to engage with a broader community around a topic of interest and contribute to public knowledge. In this course, students are invited to dig deeply into a question of interest, write for a public audience, and use the Internet as an archive of information waiting to be discovered, analyzed, and written about. Students can draw on pre-existing research interests from their majors or develop a line of inquiry stemming from class discussions, writing, and research. In order to gain experience writing to a range of readers, students will engage in a writing process informed by peer review, self-assessment, and revision. Shorter writing assignments will help students develop and refine ideas as they transform texts for different audiences. The final research project will be multimodal, published for a public audience, and should demonstrate your ability to think critically about a topic and effectively communicate that knowledge to a range of readers. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement.
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WRTG 263-01
Rachel O'Donnell
MW 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This course approaches translation not merely as the transference of words from one language to another, but as a richly layered artistic, social, and political act. What does it mean to translate—not just a text, but a worldview or a voice? What opportunities and difficulties shape the work of professional translators? And to what extent does the translator emerge as a creative force, as an author, an interpreter, or a community builder? Through case studies spanning textual, audiovisual, and multimodal forms, we will investigate translations both familiar and unexpected: the rendering of an advertisement or museum label; the subtitling of a theatrical performance; and the high-stakes work of interpretation in medical, legal, or activist settings. Students will experiment with their own translations, engage with readings that challenge ideas of authorship, and collaborate with community partners. The culminating project invites students to extend their insights into real-world contexts and make language a site of transformation.
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WRTG 266-01
Zachary Barber
TR 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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We say that the pen is mightier than the sword, implying that writing can change human history and culture. This course is designed to examine this idea and put it into practice. How can, and how should, words be used to shape the social and political world? Through a variety of media—books and articles, YouTube and TikTok, documentaries and Hollywood films—students will engage with activism about various issues such as institutional racism, mass incarceration, immigration, climate change, gender politics, and animal rights. The course will prompt reflection on both the ethics of these issues and the efficacy of the activism behind them. How can we become more effective and thoughtful writer-activists with the tools of scholarship at our disposal? As one component of the course, students can choose to provide anonymous feedback on the writing of incarcerated people, working to empower a disempowered population through words. This course meets the citation for community-engaged scholarship as students will produce various public-facing activist writing projects. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 272-01
Katherine Schaefer
T 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology and is suitable for junior and senior year biology majors. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement NOTE: every other class will take place online. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.
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WRTG 272-02
Katherine Schaefer
W 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology and is suitable for junior and senior year biology majors. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement NOTE: every other class will take place online. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit.
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WRTG 273-01
Solveiga Armoskaite
W 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-02
Zachary Barber
T 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-03
James Otis
T 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-05
James Otis
T 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-06
James Otis
W 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-07
Liz Tinelli
F 11:50AM - 1:05PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-08
Adam Stauffer
W 10:25AM - 11:40AM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-10
Catherine Schmied Towsley
T 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-13
Liz Tinelli
R 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-15
Catherine Schmied Towsley
T 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 273-16
Rachel O'Donnell
M 2:00PM - 3:15PM
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 274-01
Catherine Schmied Towsley
R 9:40AM - 10:55AM
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This interactive course teaches real life communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for second-semester sophomores, juniors and first-semester seniors; all others require permission of the instructor. All majors welcome. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 277-01
Catherine Schmied Towsley
R 11:05AM - 12:20PM
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This interactive course teaches real life? communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for second-semester sophomores, juniors and first-semester seniors; all others require permission of the instructor. All majors welcome. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. Prerequisite: Completion of the Primary Writing Requirement
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WRTG 290B-01
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
TR 12:30PM - 1:45PM
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What does it mean to be a writer in a world where AI systems like ChatGPT or Claude can produce text that is at least sometimes indistinguishable from text written by a human? In this course, we will explore a variety of AI tools with the goal of understanding how these tools might fit into the writing process and where the possible pitfalls lie. We’ll learn how to interpret articles about AI in the media with a critical eye and discuss what would be necessary for media to do a better job of writing about AI. But we’ll also experiment with AI tools to explore what it means to write with AI. Throughout the semester, we’ll dive deeper into what it is that we humans do when we write, from brainstorming all the way through final drafts, and we’ll probe what happens when we add AI to the mix at each of those stages in a series of reflective assignments. These will build towards a final project in which students offer a research-based proposal for a specific way in which AI could be effectively and ethically used by writers.
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WRTG 290C-01
Laura Whitebell
TR 3:25PM - 4:40PM
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Today, the term “misinformation” is part of everyday conversation. Yet it has a long history across the political spectrum and takes many forms, including rumors, fake news and conspiracy theories. What roles do writing, speaking, and argument play in the creation and dissemination of these narratives? This class explores issues of consensus, knowledge and public argument. Assignments include public service communications, an information mapping project and a class-wide study of a misinformation campaign. Students engage in discussion, reflection and peer feedback as they develop and revise writing and speaking assignments, culminating in a research project on a topic of their own choice.
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WRTG 391-01
Zachary Barber
7:00PM - 7:00PM
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This course provides undergraduate students the opportunity to pursue in-depth, independent exploration of a topic not regularly offered in the curriculum, under the supervision of a faculty member in the form of independent study, practicum, internship or research. The objectives and content are determined in consultation between students and full-time members of the teaching faculty. Responsibilities and expectations vary by course and department.
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WRTG 108-2
Matt Bayne
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WRTG 108 is a weekly workshop that offers ongoing practice and instruction in writing and critiquing writing. Students meet weekly with the instructor to work on writing projects relevant to their writing goals. These forms might include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, lab reports, personal statements, and cover letters, among other texts. Students may also choose to revise essays completed in previous semesters. Students plan, draft and revise their projects, critique each other's work, assess their own writing, participate in group sessions on common writing issues, and individual sessions tailored to their writing goals. The semester's work will culminate in a final portfolio that features polished essays and a reflection on their work and their development as writers. Open to students who have completed the Primary Writing Requirement, or by WSAP permission. 2-credits, pass/fail |
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WRTG 108-01
Suzanne Woodring
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WRTG 108 is a weekly workshop that offers ongoing practice and instruction in writing and critiquing writing. Students meet weekly with the instructor to work on writing projects relevant to their writing goals. These forms might include summaries, critical responses, argumentative essays, lab reports, personal statements, and cover letters, among other texts. Students may also choose to revise essays completed in previous semesters. Students plan, draft and revise their projects, critique each other's work, assess their own writing, participate in group sessions on common writing issues, and individual sessions tailored to their writing goals. The semester's work will culminate in a final portfolio that features polished essays and a reflection on their work and their development as writers. Open to students who have completed the Primary Writing Requirement, or by WSAP permission. 2-credits, pass/fail |
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WRTG 273-16
Rachel O'Donnell
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 105E-04
Liz Tinelli
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 104-02
Catherine Schmied Towsley
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Research, Writing, and Communication builds on the critical reading, writing, and communication skills developed in WRTG 103 by focusing on research. Students engage with traditional library sources, academic journals, and primary research methods such as surveys, interviews, and fieldwork. Through analysis of diverse texts, they develop extended argumentative essays and a research paper while practicing critical reading and response. The course emphasizes integrating source material with original ideas, effective research writing, and collaborative learning through peer critique. Students also strengthen professional communication skills, including interactions within the university community, debate, and formal presentations. |
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WRTG 105-02
; Kathrin Lachenmaier
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-10
Justin Coyne
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-22
Solveiga Armoskaite
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-29
Matt Bayne
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-13
Matt Bayne
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-23
Rachel O'Donnell
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-38
Suzanne Woodring
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105B-07
James Otis
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 261-01
Liz Tinelli
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The purpose of writing in a digital world is to engage with a broader community around a topic of interest and contribute to public knowledge. In this course, students are invited to dig deeply into a question of interest, write for a public audience, and use the Internet as an archive of information waiting to be discovered, analyzed, and written about. Students can draw on pre-existing research interests from their majors or develop a line of inquiry stemming from class discussions, writing, and research. In order to gain experience writing to a range of readers, students will engage in a writing process informed by peer review, self-assessment, and revision. Shorter writing assignments will help students develop and refine ideas as they transform texts for different audiences. The final research project will be multimodal, published for a public audience, and should demonstrate your ability to think critically about a topic and effectively communicate that knowledge to a range of readers. |
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WRTG 105-35
Justin Coyne
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-41
; Apoorv Pandey
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 252-01
Dustin Hannum
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While the term copyediting may be associated with journalism or literary fiction, in fact it is a vital component of the publication of almost any textual materials from scholarly and popular publishing in arts and sciences to corporate and technical communications. So what do copy editors do? Is copyediting simply about enforcing rules of correctness? When is it okay to break those rules, or to allow others to do so, and what guides such decisions? How do copy editors understand and negotiate the relationships and interests of readers, writers, and the publications they work for? How has the information age changed the way copy editors think about and approach textual editing? In this class we will address both the principles and practices of copyediting. Students will learn the principles that guide copy editors, and then put these principles into use in a workshop setting, practicing copyediting in a variety of contexts, including digital communications. |
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WRTG 250-01
Solveiga Armoskaite
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This course is a comprehensive review of the grammar of Modern Standard English. The course will be of interest to those who wish to sharpen their language skills, or to know more about the workings of the English language whether for practical, cognitive or creative ends. Drawing on work in mostly pre-theoretical, descriptive linguistics this course reveals the mechanics of Standard English structure, with occasional detours into the finesse of usage across registers (dialect to slang). Students will learn to develop the ability to see patterns in grammar, as well as its structural possibilities and limits. Assignments will regularly involve reflection on form, usage and speaker judgments. Through a final project, students will investigate some aspect of an English variety available to them. Throughout, students will be working with their data samples of English to explore how speaker choices lead to particular grammatical structures or yield ungrammaticality. Background in linguistics or grammar not needed. |
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WRTG 263-01
Rachel O'Donnell
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This course approaches translation not merely as the transference of words from one language to another, but as a richly layered artistic, social, and political act. What does it mean to translate—not just a text, but a worldview or a voice? What opportunities and difficulties shape the work of professional translators? And to what extent does the translator emerge as a creative force, as an author, an interpreter, or a community builder? Through case studies spanning textual, audiovisual, and multimodal forms, we will investigate translations both familiar and unexpected: the rendering of an advertisement or museum label; the subtitling of a theatrical performance; and the high-stakes work of interpretation in medical, legal, or activist settings. Students will experiment with their own translations, engage with readings that challenge ideas of authorship, and collaborate with community partners. The culminating project invites students to extend their insights into real-world contexts and make language a site of transformation. |
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WRTG 105-07
Kate Phillips
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-28
; James Kim
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-43
Justin Coyne
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105E-03
Liz Tinelli
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 105-08
Kate Phillips
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105E-05
; Arthur Tapia
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 105-03
; Caroline Warrick-Schkolnik
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-09
; Claire Becker
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-49
Rob Rich
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 272-01
Katherine Schaefer
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology and is suitable for junior and senior year biology majors. |
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WRTG 273-05
James Otis
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 273-10
Catherine Schmied Towsley
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 273-15
Catherine Schmied Towsley
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 273-03
James Otis
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 273-02
Zachary Barber
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 105-05
; Emily Blevins
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-11
Laura Whitebell
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-19
Dustin Hannum
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-32
Adam Stauffer
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-50
; Xinyue Wang
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105B-03
Suzanne Woodring
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 105B-04
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 105-31
Dustin Hannum
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-47
; Kexin Zhang
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105A-01
Suzanne Woodring
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WRTG 105A (Fall) and WRTG 105B (Spring) distribute the work of WRTG 105E across two semesters, with WRTG 105A covering the first half of WRTG 105E. WRTG 105A immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise two short argumentative essays. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. |
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WRTG 105-06
Adam Stauffer
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-14
Karl Mohn
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-33
; Md Mamunur Rashid
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-46
; Amelia Gradt
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-52
; Ewa Maria White
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 290B-01
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
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What does it mean to be a writer in a world where AI systems like ChatGPT or Claude can produce text that is at least sometimes indistinguishable from text written by a human? In this course, we will explore a variety of AI tools with the goal of understanding how these tools might fit into the writing process and where the possible pitfalls lie. We’ll learn how to interpret articles about AI in the media with a critical eye and discuss what would be necessary for media to do a better job of writing about AI. But we’ll also experiment with AI tools to explore what it means to write with AI. Throughout the semester, we’ll dive deeper into what it is that we humans do when we write, from brainstorming all the way through final drafts, and we’ll probe what happens when we add AI to the mix at each of those stages in a series of reflective assignments. These will build towards a final project in which students offer a research-based proposal for a specific way in which AI could be effectively and ethically used by writers. |
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WRTG 105-45
Karl Mohn
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-51
; Abbie Boudreaux
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105B-06
Paige Sloan
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The second-half of the WRTG 105A-WRTG 105B sequence, WRTG 105B immerses students in the experience of academic writing, with a particular emphasis on analyzing, using, and documenting scholarly and non-scholarly texts. It provides instruction and practice in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise a proposal and an 8-10 page argumentative research paper. Students will develop and test their ideas through discussion, informal writing, peer critiques and reflections. All sections of WRTG 105A&B revolve around a theme and include a weekly writing group in which students do the work of writing with immediate support from the course instructor. WRTG 105B students who have worked diligently but have not attained a grade of “B-“ or higher may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial program that allows students to continue working on their writing, raise their final grades, and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 105E-09
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 247-01
Laura Whitebell
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Prepares selected sophomores, juniors, and eligible first-year students for work as Speaking Fellows. This course focuses not only on the skill of public speaking, but also on peer tutoring and assisting students with their own forms of spoken communication. In this course, we will examine various components of presentations, including effective use of visual aids and professional delivery styles. We will also explore several types of spoken communication for different purposes and audiences, including argumentative and descriptive speeches, interviews, and group presentations. Through analyzing, studying the construction of, and creating and delivering their own presentations, students will improve their own speaking styles and develop the skills necessary to aid their peers in constructing and revising presentations. By the end of the semester, students should be ready to take on their own hours as peer tutors. This course satisfies a requirement for the Citation for Achievement in College Leadership. Restrictions: Instructor's permission required |
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WRTG 266-01
Zachary Barber
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We say that the pen is mightier than the sword, implying that writing can change human history and culture. This course is designed to examine this idea and put it into practice. How can, and how should, words be used to shape the social and political world? Through a variety of media—books and articles, YouTube and TikTok, documentaries and Hollywood films—students will engage with activism about various issues such as institutional racism, mass incarceration, immigration, climate change, gender politics, and animal rights. The course will prompt reflection on both the ethics of these issues and the efficacy of the activism behind them. How can we become more effective and thoughtful writer-activists with the tools of scholarship at our disposal? As one component of the course, students can choose to provide anonymous feedback on the writing of incarcerated people, working to empower a disempowered population through words. This course meets the citation for community-engaged scholarship as students will produce various public-facing activist writing projects. |
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WRTG 105-12
; Nashaly Melendez
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-15
; Juan Espinosa
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-16
M. Kristana Textor
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105-20
; Abdullah Shaikh
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 290C-01
Laura Whitebell
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Today, the term “misinformation” is part of everyday conversation. Yet it has a long history across the political spectrum and takes many forms, including rumors, fake news and conspiracy theories. What roles do writing, speaking, and argument play in the creation and dissemination of these narratives? This class explores issues of consensus, knowledge and public argument. Assignments include public service communications, an information mapping project and a class-wide study of a misinformation campaign. Students engage in discussion, reflection and peer feedback as they develop and revise writing and speaking assignments, culminating in a research project on a topic of their own choice. |
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WRTG 104-03
Paige Sloan
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Research, Writing, and Communication builds on the critical reading, writing, and communication skills developed in WRTG 103 by focusing on research. Students engage with traditional library sources, academic journals, and primary research methods such as surveys, interviews, and fieldwork. Through analysis of diverse texts, they develop extended argumentative essays and a research paper while practicing critical reading and response. The course emphasizes integrating source material with original ideas, effective research writing, and collaborative learning through peer critique. Students also strengthen professional communication skills, including interactions within the university community, debate, and formal presentations. |
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WRTG 105-26
; Elizabeth McKay
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WRTG 105 introduces students to academic writing at the college level and an awareness of variations across the disciplines. The course offers instruction in small sections that focus on the act of writing. It provides instruction and practice in clear and effective writing and in constructing cogent and compelling arguments, as students draft and revise numerous compositions of different forms and lengths. These assignments introduce some of the genres students are expected to produce later in their college careers as well as in their public and professional lives after graduation. The subject of the course is writing, but since writing is about something, each section of WRTG 105 focuses on a unique theme. Within this theme, students analyze, discuss, and engage with a range of texts in order to construct their own arguments and a final argumentative research paper. Students consider the roles of audience and purpose in shaping the organization, style and argumentative strategies of their papers, and they learn to become self-aware readers of their writing through reflection, peer response, revision, and editing. All sections include writing instruction, workshops, and practice in core writing principles and strategies needed to meet the course learning objectives and to become successful writers in and beyond college. |
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WRTG 105E-07
; Yash Chitrakar
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 273-08
Adam Stauffer
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 273-06
James Otis
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 272-02
Katherine Schaefer
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. The class can be used to fulfill 1 of 2 required Upper-Level Writing experiences in biology and is suitable for junior and senior year biology majors. |
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WRTG 273-01
Solveiga Armoskaite
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 274-01
Catherine Schmied Towsley
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This interactive course teaches real life communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for second-semester sophomores, juniors and first-semester seniors; all others require permission of the instructor. All majors welcome. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 277-01
Catherine Schmied Towsley
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This interactive course teaches real life? communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for second-semester sophomores, juniors and first-semester seniors; all others require permission of the instructor. All majors welcome. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 273-13
Liz Tinelli
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 105E-10
Whitney Gegg-Harrison
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 273-07
Liz Tinelli
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This interactive course teaches 'real life' communication skills and strategies that help students present their best professional selves and develop a fulfilling career. Students will explore and articulate their internship, career and graduate school goals for distinct audiences and purposes as they develop a professional communication portfolio of materials such as resumes, cover letters, statements of purpose, electronic communications, elevator pitches, project descriptions and abstracts, and online profiles (i.e., LinkedIn). Students will revise and refine their written and spoken work across the semester based on feedback from peers, instructors, and alumni. By the semester's end, students will have gained extensive experience with the communication skills expected in today's competitive environment. This course is suitable for sophomores and juniors in the Hajim School; all others require permission of the instructor. Students must have completed a minimum of two engineering or CS courses in their major. Courses in the WRTG 27X series may not be taken more than once for credit. |
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WRTG 105E-08
; Yash Chitrakar
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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WRTG 105E-06
; Arthur Tapia
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WRTG 105E is an extended version of Reasoning and Writing in the College. While WRTG 105 and WRTG 105E have the same expectations for completion, WRTG 105E is intended for students who decide that they need a more supported writing experience to meet the demands of college writing. All sections of WRTG 105E include an additional class session each week and are taught in computer labs and limited to 10 students. WRTG 105E students who have worked diligently but have not attained a B- or better may take an incomplete and sign up for the Extension, a weekly workshop and tutorial that allows students to raise their final grades and satisfy the Primary Writing Requirement. |
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