ENWR 1505 - Writing and Critical Inquiry: The Stretch Sequence (8 sections)

Offers a two-semester approach to the First Writing Requirement. This sequence allows students to take more time, in smaller sections and with support from the Writing Center, practicing and reinforcing the activities that are central to the first-year writing course. Like ENWR 1510, ENWR 1505-06 approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Students contribute to an academic conversation about a specific subject of inquiry and learn to position their ideas and research in relation to the ideas and research of others.  Instructors place student writing at the center of course, encourage students to think on the page, and prepare them to reflect on contemporary forms of expression.  Students read and respond to each other’s writing in class regularly, and they engage in thoughtful reflection on their own rhetorical choices as well as those of peers and published writers.  Additionally, the course requires students to give an oral presentation on their research and to assemble a digital portfolio of their writing.

001 - Writing about Culture/Society
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 066)
Claire Chantell

002 - Writing about Culture/Society
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 066)
Claire Chantell

003 - Writing about Culture/Society​
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 203)
Patricia Sullivan

004 - Writing about Culture/Society​
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 203)
Patricia Sullivan

005 - Writing about Culture/Society - Literacy Narratives
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 066)
Kate Kostelnik

006 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 330)
John Modica

007 - Writing about Culture/Society - Literacy Narratives
TR 12:30-01:45PM (CAB 066)
Kate Kostelnik

008 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 330)
John Modica  

ENWR 1510 - Writing and Critical Inquiry (70+ sections)

Approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Students contribute to an academic conversation about a specific subject of inquiry and learn to position their ideas and research in relation to the ideas and research of others.  Instructors place student writing at the center of course, encourage students to think on the page, and prepare them to reflect on contemporary forms of expression.  Students read and respond to each other’s writing in class regularly, and they engage in thoughtful reflection on their own rhetorical choices as well as those of peers and published writers.  Additionally, the course requires students to give an oral presentation on their research and to assemble a digital portfolio of their writing.

001 - TBA
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (SHN 109)
TBA

002 - TBA
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (SHN 109)
TBA
 
003 - Writing & Community Engagement - Walking Charlottesville
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 312)
Kate Stephenson

This seminar will explore the connections between walking, writing, social justice, and activism. There is a long history of walking as a means of igniting thought, creativity, and dialogue that dates back to the meanderings of Socrates and Aristotle and continues through the strolls of the Romantic poets, the city wanderings of the fictional J. Alfred Prufrock and Clarissa Dalloway, and the outdoor hikes of Wendell Berry. But walking isn’t just linked to creativity and conversation; it’s also clearly connected to social justice. Walking to freedom, as depicted in myriad slave narratives and immigration stories, as well as walking for freedom in the form of protest marches, both past and present, are important reminders that our footsteps matter.   In this class, we will consider how walking can be both a solo activity and a means of creating community. By walking together, we will learn about the places and histories around us.  The course will be structured around biweekly walks themed around social justice. All walks and place-based visits will include time for reflective writing.

004 - TBA
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (SHN 111)
TBA

005 - TBA
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (SHN 119)
TBA
 
006 - TBA
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (SHN 109)
TBA
 
007 - TBA
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (SHN 111)
TBA
 
008 - TBA
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (SHN 119)
TBA
 
009 - Writing about identities
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 310)
Devin Donovan
(Transfer Students ONLY)
 
010 - Writing about Science & Tech
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 312)
Cory Shaman
 
011 - TBA​
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 330)
TBA

012 - Writing about Culture/Society - Assessing Performance, Risk, and Reward
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 312)
Jon D'Errico
 
013 - Writing about Science & Tech - Writing about Medicine
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 310)
Rhiannon Goad

With early Homo-sapiens sketching wrestling matches on cave walls, people have written about sports for millennia. Today, writers weave sports into the fabric of our everyday lives. This course continues the prehistoric tradition of writing about sports. In doing so, students explore how athletics serves to negotiate personal identity and test the limits of what it means to be human. Students will select a sports league or athlete to study as an artifact for the semester. After selecting and researching an artifact, students will write an essay reviewing contemporary controversies related to that league. Then, in a series of analytic essays, students apply the readings as lenses to tease out paradoxes about the controversies outlined in that initial paper.

014 - TBA
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (DL1 104)
TBA
 
015 - Writing about Identities
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 334)
Charity Fowler
 
016 -- Writing about Identities
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 310)
Devin Donovan
(Transfer Students ONLY)
 
017 -- TBA 
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 332)
TBA
 
018 -- TBA
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 312)
TBA
 
019 -- TBA 
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (DL1 104)
TBA
 
020 -- Multilingual Writers
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 330)
Davy Tran
(Multilingual/international students ONLY)

With early Homo-sapiens sketching wrestling matches on cave walls, people have written about sports for millennia. Today, writers weave sports into the fabric of our everyday lives. This course continues the prehistoric tradition of writing about sports. In doing so, students explore how athletics serves to negotiate personal identity and test the limits of what it means to be human. Students will select a sports league or athlete to study as an artifact for the semester. After selecting and researching an artifact, students will write an essay reviewing contemporary controversies related to that league. Then, in a series of analytic essays, students apply the readings as lenses to tease out paradoxes about the controversies outlined in that initial paper.

040 -- Writing about Digital Media - Writing about Attention
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (DL1 104)
Tyler Carter

041 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 332)
Keith Driver
(Transfer Students ONLY)
 
042 -- TBA 
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (SHN 119)
TBA
 
043 -- TBA
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 334)
TBA
 
044 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Language, Policy, and Politics
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 207)
Kate Natishan

As Edward P.J. Corbett has observed, rhetorical analysis "is more interested in a literary work for what it does than for what it is." Rhetoric - how words are chosen and used - can impact everything from how we understand problems and create policies to how we engage in politics and create identity. It's never "just words." This class will explore how language use by public figures and citizens impacts how policies are created and written as well as how the political arena is changed by the use of
language. By nature of the subject matter, we will be discussing political, social, and policy issues both past and present.

045 -- TBA
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 312)
TBA
 
046 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Language, Policy, and Politics
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (DL1 104)
Kate Natishan

As Edward P.J. Corbett has observed, rhetorical analysis "is more interested in a literary work for what it does than for what it is." Rhetoric - how words are chosen and used - can impact everything from how we understand problems and create policies to how we engage in politics and create identity. It's never "just words." This class will explore how language use by public figures and citizens impacts how policies are created and written as well as how the political arena is changed by the use of
language. By nature of the subject matter, we will be discussing political, social, and policy issues both past and present.

047 -- Writing & Community Engagement - Native American Rhetoric
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (KER 317)
Sarah Richardson
 
048 -- TBA
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 220)
TBA
 
049 -- Writing about Science & Tech
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 312)
Cory Shaman
 
050 -- TBA
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 332)
TBA
 
051 -- TBA
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 310)
TBA
 
052 -- TBA
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (SHN 119)
TBA
 
053 -- TBA
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (CLM 320)
Hodges Adams
 
054 -- TBA
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (DL1 103)
TBA
 
055 -- TBA
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (DL1 104)
TBA
 
056 -- TBA
MW 06:30PM-07:45PM (SHN 109)
TBA
 
057 -- TBA 
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (CAB 044)
TBA
 
058 -- TBA
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 330)
TBA

059 -- TBA
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 312)
TBA
 
060 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 334)
Courtney Watts
 
061 -- TBA
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (CAB 044)
TBA
 
062 -- TBA
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (DL1 104)
TBA
 
063 -- TBA
TR 06:30PM-07:45PM (SHN 109)
TBA
 
064 -- Writing about Culture/Society - Poetic Fragments
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 330)
Kaitlyn Airy

In this introduction to composition course we will investigate how the essay comes together starting from its smallest components. How is an idea, a memory, or line of inquiry developed into its totality? Can an essay hold more than one thread, and how can we braid these threads together? How do we engage in meaning-making in ways that rigorously and creatively reach our intended argument? We will begin with short prose and the personal essay but from there expand our understanding of what is possible for the non-fiction genre. Our reading list will include memoir, poetry, literary criticism, as well as experimental hybrid forms of writing that push the boundary of the non-fiction essay.

065 -- TBA
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 332)
TBA
 
066 -- TBA
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 334)
TBA
 
067 -- TBA
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (SHN 111)
TBA
 
068 -- TBA
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 332)
TBA
 
069 -- Writing about Culture/Society
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 283)
Courtney Watts
 
070 -- TBA
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 312)
TBA
 
071 -- TBA
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (SHN 111)
TBA
 
072 -- TBA
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 332)
TBA
 
073 -- TBA
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 332)
TBA

074 -- TBA
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 330)
TBA

075 -- TBA
TR 05:00PM-06:15AM (CAB 044)
TBA

076 -- TBA
TR (05:00PM-06:15PM) (CAB 036)
TBA

077 -- TBA
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (SHN 119)
TBA

078 -- TBA
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 334)
TBA

ENWR 1520 - Writing and Community Engagement (1 section)

001 -- TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 312) - Writing about Food Justice
Kate Stephenson

Why do we eat what we eat? Do poor people eat more fast food than wealthy people? Why are Cheetos cheaper than cherries? Do you have to be skinny to be hungry? By volunteering at the UVA Student Garden, Morven Kitchen Garden, UVA Community Food Pantry, Loaves and Fishes, or the PVCC Community Garden and using different types of writing, including journal entries, forum posts, peer reviews, and formal papers, we will explore topics like food insecurity, food production, hunger stereotypes, privilege, urban gardening, and community engagement.  

Community engagement courses depend on creating pathways between different kinds of knowledge that enable us to learn with our minds, hearts, and bodies. The classroom is not a place where we find the answer; instead, it is a space for inquiry where process rather than product prevails. We will explore first-hand the ways in which academic conversations—and civic conversations—emphasize questions rather than answers. We will redefine knowledge—where it originates, who creates it, and how it circulates—by seeing the community outside the classroom as a site of knowledge production. 

Community Partners—UVA Student Garden, Morven Kitchen Garden, UVA Community Food Pantry, Loaves and Fishes, Food Assist, Feel Good, and PVCC Community Garden.

All students will have the opportunity to volunteer weekly at the UVA Student Garden (SG), Morven Kitchen Garden (MKG), UVA Community Food Pantry (FP), Loaves and Fishes (LF), Feel Good (FG), or PVCC Community Garden (PCG). Scheduling, including time slots and transportation, will be coordinated with the help of the professor and Madison House.  Students should complete their chosen number of hours by April 29th and submit their community engagement log on Canvas. We will receive training from the gardens and Madison House in preparation for our partnership. During those sessions, we will think deeply about the ethics of community engagement in both theoretical and practical terms in order to align our interactions with the following principles: co-production, responsibility, equity, authentic partnership, and mutuality.

ENWR 1530 - Writing About the Imagination

MW 01:00PM-01:50PM (CLK 107)
Kenny Fountain

Discussion Sections: F 9:00AM, 10:00AM, 11:00AM, and 12:00PM. TA: TBA

Imagining and visualizing are key components of perceiving the world, remembering the past, and envisioning new futures. And words play an important role in how we imagine. That is, words make absent things present; they can bring to mind people, objects, and events remote in time or space and allow us to conceive of possibilities that do not yet exist.

Often, scientists, engineers, and Big Tech leaders describe generative AI products using the language of human imagination. For example, verbs like predict, hallucinate, and create are used to explain what both human brains and ChatGPT can do. But can these tools imagine as a human can? How might understanding human imagination shed light on our relationship with these Big Tech products? And how can we become better writers and thinkers by tapping into our own processes of imagining and visualizing? 

In this First Writing Requirement (FWR) course, we will explore how writers and researchers have investigated the imagination—both human imagination and the supposedly imagination-like processes of AI products. To do this, we will read work from across several disciplines, including rhetoric, philosophy, cognitive science, science journalism, and literature. As we do this, we will examine how these writers use verbal description, visual imagery, lively storytelling, compelling evidence, and persuasive argument. 

In this course, students will write with, and sometimes against, generative AI products, like ChatGPT.

ENWR 2510 - Advanced Writing Seminar (3 sections)

001 -- TBA
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 415)
TBA
  
002 -- Writing about Identities
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 334)
Devin Donovan
 
003 -- Writing about Culture/Society
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (DL1 104)
Jim Seitz

ENWR 2520 - Special Topics in Writing (6 sections)

001 -- Community Engagement with UVA's Indigenous History
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 332)
Sarah Richardson

This section of ENWR 2520, Community Engagement with UVA’s Indigenous History, will focus on using rhetorical approaches to help students improve critical reading and writing skills and craft effective arguments. Rhetoric is the study of persuasion, and we’ll spend time analyzing arguments to determine why audiences might be persuaded by them and the benefits and harm rhetoric has on indigenous communities. Students will also learn how to research, compose, and revise ethical and effective arguments to address specific audiences. In particular, this course will focus on applicable concepts to the Monacan Nation.

002 -- Writing and Games
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (CLM 320)
Kate Natishan

Play is essential to our growth. Games teach us how to move, how to balance, how to coordinate our hands andeyes, how to take turns, how to share, how to read people, how to strategize, how to problem solve, how to work as a team... Without games, there is no us. 

Games play a central role in our social and private lives, whether we are spectators or players. They also have massive cultural impact, sometimes in ways we don’t expect. In this class, we will examine the role games play in our lives and our culture, and we will explore the ways in which others write about games while developing our skills to do the same. Meets second writing requirement.

003 -- Writing and Documentary Film  
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (SHN 119)
Jodie Childers

Documentary filmmaking involves finding and framing moments in the world around us, often to get at more profound truths. As the photographer Robert Frank contends, “When the video camera is on, I always feel that it is a kind of ‘moment of truth’ . . . it’s like a pencil.” In this course, we will examine the craft of writing through the lens of nonfiction film, attending to the rhetorical choices that shape documentary film and the writing that undergirds the process, from creation to promotion.
This course provides an invitation to documentary film, and our discussions and assignments will emphasize invention, creativity, and project design as we delve into the pre-production process, from developing concepts to pitching big ideas. In the first half of the semester, we will analyze and assess documentary films as we learn and apply the language of the screen; in the second half, we will build formal film treatments that envision and pitch our original visions. Through analyzing films and creating our own original projects, we will explore the tension between artistry and pragmatism, deepening our understanding of documentary film as a genre and confronting its affordances—both the possibilities and the constraints.

004 -- Writing as Making
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 334)
Heidi Nobles

In Writing as Making, you'll dive into research writing as both a creative and analytical process, blending ideas from the sciences and humanities. You’ll study draft and published work by science writers, explore how research takes shape, and create your own multimodal projects.

We’ll start with an escape-room-style investigation, working with rare archival materials to uncover how scientist-authors built their ideas. Then, you’ll take on your own independent research, experimenting with different ways of gathering, analyzing, and shaping information for real audiences. Along the way, you’ll test out strategies for refining your writing, including AI-assisted style experiments and audience simulations that help you see your work from fresh perspectives and find your own voice.

Throughout the course, you’ll tackle three major projects: an analysis essay, a research narrative, and a research-driven project in a format of your choice—maybe a traditional essay, a research proposal, a podcast, a webtext, or something more visual. Every project will go through a multi-step writing process, giving you space to explore ideas, draft, revise, and fine-tune your voice. By the end of the semester, you’ll have built an archive of your own research and writing, reflecting on how your process shapes your final products.

Join us as we push the boundaries of what research writing can be—and make something new along the way.

005 -- TBA
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (RTN 152)
TBA

006 -- Argumentation Across Disciplines
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 191)
Tyler Carter

Argumentation Across Disciplines examines how the linguistic and rhetorical features of argument vary from discipline to discipline. The course will make two primary movements: The first is an examination of what argument is through the lens of classical and new rhetorical theory, and second, students will do comparative research on the linguistic and rhetorical features of texts in two different disciplines. 

ENWR 2640 - Writing as Technology

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 330)
Patricia Sullivan

This course explores historical, theoretical, and practical conceptions of writing as technology. We will study various writing systems, the relation of writing to speaking and visual media, and the development of writing technologies (manuscript, printing presses, typewriters, hypertext, text messaging, and artificial intelligence). Students will produce written academic and personal essays, but will also experiment with multimedia electronic texts, such as web sites, digital essays/stories, and AI generated texts

ENWR 2700 - News Writing

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 203)
Kate Sweeney

This course focuses on the development of basic writing skills, with craftsmanship the emphasis. We will study, discuss, and rewrite old and new newspaper stories in a workshop setting. Readings will be taken from texts and various other sources. Progress from short hard-news pieces through speech stories, legislative and political coverage, the use of narrative and on to other news features. Repeated writing drills. Fair to good typing or word processing skills required. It will be essential to follow current events as well.

ENWR 2800 - Public Speaking

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 312)
Dana Little

ENWR 3500 - Topics in Advanced Writing and Rhetoric

001 -- Rhetoric of Crime
MW 05:00PM-06:15 (BRN 310)
Rhiannon Goad

Sensational news headlines, tough-on-crime political campaigns, and gripping true crime narratives: how we talk about crime profoundly shapes our understanding of criminals, victims, justice, and social order. This course explores the rhetorical dimension of crime, examining the persuasive strategies used to define crime, influence public perception, and shape policy in contemporary culture. Together, we will critically analyze how language constructs our reality of crime and punishment. Through a series of analytic papers and a podcast, students will use rhetorical analysis to identify significant trends in crime discourse, identify agents shaping these narratives, and develop a critical perspective on the power of language in matters of law, order, and justice. 

ENWR 3620 - Writing and Tutoring Across Cultures

TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 332)
Kate Kostelnik

In this course, we'll look at a variety of texts from academic arguments, narratives, and pedagogies, to consider what it means to write, communicate, and learn across cultures. Topics will include contrastive rhetorics, world Englishes, rhetorical listening, and tutoring multilingual writers. A service learning component will require students to volunteer weekly in the community.

ENWR 3640 - Writing with Sound

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 332)
Steph Ceraso

In this collaborative, project-based course, students will learn to script, design, edit, and produce an original podcast series. In addition to reading about and practicing professional audio storytelling techniques (e.g. interviewing, writing for the ear, sound design), each student will get to work with a team to produce an episode for the podcast series. No experience with digital audio editing is necessary. Beginners welcome!

ENWR 3660 - Travel Writing

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 330)
Kate Stephenson

Why is everyone suddenly going to Portugal? Why do we travel? What is the difference between a traveler and a tourist?  Using different types of writing, including journal entries, discussion posts, peer reviews, and formal papers, we will explore the world of travel writing.  Since we all write best about subjects we are passionate about, we will work together to generate interesting questions about the role of travel in our culture, as well as about specific books and essays. We will also investigate the world of tourism and consider the many ethical issues that arise in the exploration of our modern world. Throughout the course, we will ponder questions like:

• What is the relationship between travel writer, reader, and inhabitant?
• How can we use writing to navigate the relationship between writer, reader, inhabitant, and place?
• What is the role of “outsider” in travel writing?
• How does travel writing encourage us to see ourselves differently?
• How can we use the very best of travel writing—the sense of discovery, voice, narrative suspense—in other forms of writing, including academic essays?
• Can travel writing evoke political and social change?

As the semester unfolds, I hope we will revise and refine our views, paying close attention to how we put words together to write powerfully and engagingly about travel.

ENWR 3665 - Writing about the Environment

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (DL1 104)
Cory Shaman

ENWR 3740 - Black Women's Writing & Rhetoric

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (RTN 152)
Tamika Carey

ENWR 3810 - Making Books: Intro to Book Editing and Publishing

MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 334)
Heidi Nobles

Students in Making Books: Intro to Book Editing and Publishing will gain a broad view of book editing and publishing in the 21st century, as well as hands-on experience with developmental, substantive, and copy editing. This course demands attention to both practical application and meaningful philosophy, challenging students to perfect the methods of editing but also to consider the urgent implications of editorial intervention.

Editing changes texts, but it also changes the people involved--authors, editors, and reader. To push toward robust understanding and advanced skill, students will work through readings and assignments that get them working with real texts at multiple levels, all in the context of today’s book industry. Students will work in pairs and groups to perform developmental, substantive, copy edits, and revisions on well-known but contested manuscripts.

By the course’s end, students should have established their own editorial philosophy, along with a digital portfolio and work samples should they wish to pursue editorial work beyond the class.

Appropriate for aspiring publishing professionals, but also for anyone who simply wants to better understand the often-hidden lives of books-in-progress, or to take their writing skills to a new level.

ENWR 3900 - Career Based Writing and Rhetoric

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 291)
John T. Casteen IV

Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design.