Fall 2020 Course Descriptions

*Fall 2020 schedule is not yet final.

Two-Semester First-Year Writing Courses

ENWR 1505 - Writing and Critical Inquiry: The Stretch Sequence

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.

Fall 2020 Sections:

001 - Writing about Culture/Society -
TR 1100-1215
Claire Chantell

002 - Writing about Culture/Society -
TR 1230-145
Claire Chantell

003 - Writing about Culture/Society - Place & Belonging
MWF 100-150
Patricia Sullivan

004 - Writing about Culture/Society - Place & Belonging
MWF 1200-1250
Patricia Sullivan

007 - Writing about Identities - Literacy Narratives
TR 1100-1215 
Kate Kostelnik

008 - Writing about Culture/Society - Sports & Society
TR 1100-1215 
Marcus Meade

009 - Writing about Identities - Literacy Narratives
TR 930-1045 
Kate Kostelnik

ENWR 1507 - Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch Sequence for Multilingual Writers

Offers instruction in academic writing, critical inquiry, and the conventions of American English for non-native speakers of English. Space is limited, and priority is given to students who are required to take the sequence by recommendation of the admissions office, the transition program, or the writing program.

001
TR 930-1045 
Mahmoud Abdi Tabari

Single-Semester First-Year Writing Courses

ENWR 1510 - Writing and Critical Inquiry (90 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.

Fall 2020 Sections:

001 - Writing about Culture/Society - Documentary Nonfiction
MWF 900-950

Cassie Davies

002 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 100-150

Amber McBride 

003 - Writing about Culture/Society - (Reserved for Transfer Students) 
TR 1100-1215 (online)
Keith Driver

004 - Writing about Culture/Society -
MWF 900-950 
Richard Milby

005 - Writing about Identities
TR 500-615 
Elisabeth Blair

006 - Writing about Culture/Society - Monstrous Bodies
MWF 1100-1150 
Kaylee Lamb

007 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 1100-1150 

Amber McBride

008 - Writing about the Arts - Literary Frames and Intertextuality
MWF 800-850

Zheng-Liann Kateri Schuster 

009 - Writing about Identities
MW 630-745 
Emelye Keyser

010 - Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 930-1045 
Cory Shaman

011 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 1100-1150

Indu Ohri

012 - Writing about Culture/Society - Solving Local Problems
MWF 1000-1050
Jon D'Errico

013 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 1000-1050
Ankita Chakrabarti

014 - Writing about Culture/Society
MW 500-615 

Sarah Storti

015 - Writing about Science & Tech - Writing Material: A Scientific Approach to Artful Communication
MWF 1200-1250
Heidi Nobles

016 - Writing about Culture/Society - Storytelling: How Narrative Shapes Culture and Experience
TR 930-1045 

Anna Martin-Beecher

017 - Writing about Identities - Writing to Learn about Learning (Reserved for Transfer Students) 
MW 200-315 
Devin Donovan

018 - Writing about the Arts - Imitation and the Apprenticeship of Writing
MWF 900-950
Catherine Blume

019 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 500-615
Suzie Eckl

020 - Writing about the Arts - Academic Writing and Modernist Thinking
MWF 100-150 
Andrew Chen

021 - Writing about Culture/Society - Religion in America
MWF 1100-1150 

DeVan Ard

022 - Writing about Culture/Society - Strategic Rhetoric and Persuasive Effect
MWF 1200-1250 
Robert Zenz

023 - Writing about the Arts - Reimagining Shakespeare's The Tempest
MW 500-615 
Mary Ruth Robinson

024 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 1200-1250
Ankita Chakrabarti

025 - Writing about the Arts - Points of View
TR 800-915 
Matt Davis

026 - Writing about Culture/Society - Documentary Nonfiction
MWF 1200-1250 

Cassie Davies

027 - Writing about Culture/Society - Is Chivalry Dead: From Knights and Ladies to Incels and Reality TV
MW 500-615 
Katherine Churchill

028 - Writing about Culture/Society - Documentary Nonfiction
MWF 100-150 

Cassie Davies

029 - Writing about the Arts -
MW 330-445 
Charity Fowler

030 - Writing about Culture/Society - Attention, Distraction, and the World Beyond Your Head.
MW 500-615 
Anne Marie Thompson

031 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 900-950 

Indu Ohri

032 - Writing about Culture/Society -
TR 930-1045 
Lindgren Johnson

033 - Writing about the Arts - Contemporary Art
TR 800-915 
Annyston Pennington

034 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 100-150 

Indu Ohri

035 - Writing about Culture/Society - Solving Local Problems
MWF 1100-1150 
Jon D'Errico

036 - Writing about Culture/Society - Documentary Nonfiction
TR 330-445 

Piers Gelly

037 - Writing about the Arts
MWF 1000-1050 

Jessica Walker

038 - Writing about Culture/Society- The Talk of the Town
TR 800-915 

Tom Berenato

039 - Writing about Culture/Society - Storytelling: How Narrative Shapes Culture and Experience
TR 500-615

Anna Martin-Beecher

040 - Writing about Culture/Society -
TR 600-715 
Keith Driver

041 - Writing about Culture/Society - Place
MWF 100-150
Andrew Eaton

042 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing the Ethical Life
MWF 100-150 

Derek Cavens

043 - Writing about Identities
TR 800-915 
Fina Mbabazi

044 - Writing about the Arts
MWF 100-150 

Jessica Walker

045 - Writing about Culture/Society - Religion in America
MWF 100-150

DeVan Ard 

046 - Writing about Culture/Society - Religion in America
MWF 1000-1050 

DeVan Ard

047 - Writing about Culture/Society - Place
MWF 200-250
Andrew Eaton

048 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing the 2020 Election
MWF 300-350 
Hannah Loeb

049 - Writing about Culture/Society - Taste: Bad Poetry
TR 800-915 
Annie Persons

050 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 800-915
Eva Latterner

051 - Writing about Culture/Society - Mysteries
TR 500-615 
Julianne McCobin

052 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Art of Learning
TR 1230-145 
Lisa Aguirre

053 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 900-950 

Amber McBride

054 - Writing about Culture/Society -
TR 1100-1215 
Lindgren Johnson

055 - Topic TBD -
TR 800-915 

056 - Writing about Culture/Society - Documentary Nonfiction
TR 800-915 

Piers Gelly

057 - Writing about Identities
TR 930-1045 
Fina Mbabazi

058 - Writing about Culture/Society - Documentary Nonfiction
TR 930-1045 

Piers Gelly

059 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing the Ethical Life
MWF 1200-1250 

Derek Cavens

061 - Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 1230-145 
Cory Shaman

062 - Writing about Culture/Society - Hip Hop
TR 200-315 
David Coyoca

063 - Writing about Culture/Society -
TR 200-315 
Anastatia Curley

064 - Writing about Identities
MW 500-615
Emelye Keyser

065 - Writing about Identities
MW 500-615
Miriam Grossman

066 - Writing about Culture/Society - Storytelling: How Narrative Shapes Culture and Experience
TR 330-445 

Anna Martin-Beecher

067 - Writing about Digital Media - Algorithms and Advertising - Digital Influences
TR 600-715
Sebastian Corrales

068 - Writing about Culture/Society - Music, Writing, Identity. 
TR 1100-1215 
Steph Ceraso

This writing-intensive seminar will focus on the connection between music and identity. We will explore our relationships to a wide range of music—from rap to indie rock—examining questions such as: How does music influence the ways we make sense of our personal and cultural histories? In what ways do our identities (race, gender, class, ethnicity, sexuality, etc.) inform our musical tastes and distastes? What does music have to do with writing? In addition to reading and writing about music, students in this class will learn to write with music. In other words, you will be incorporating music into some of the course projects, such as an autobiographical playlist and a podcast about the development of musical tastes. No previous experience with digital audio editing is necessary.

069 - Writing about the Arts
MWF 1200-1250 

Jessica Walker

070 - Writing and Community Engagement - Writing Power: Language Politics in Communities and Controversies
TR 630-745 
Tarushi Sonthalia

071 - Writing about the Arts
MW 630-745 

Mary Clare Agnew

072 - Writing about the Arts - Writing about Shadows
TR 1230-145
Zoe Kempf-Harris

074 - Writing about Digital Media - (Reserved for Transfer Students) 
MW 330-445 
Patricia Sullivan

075 - Writing about Digital Media - Writing about Multiple Literacies: Digital News, Commencement Speeches, and Social Media
TR 1230-145 
Katie Campbell

076 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Talk of the Town
TR 200-315

Tom Berenato

077 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Talk of the Town
TR 330-445

Tom Berenato

078 - Writing about Identities - Illness
TR 630-745 
Sarah Berkowitz

079 - Writing about Culture/Society - Imprisonment
TR 630-745 

Hallie Richmond

080 - Writing about Culture/Society
MW 630-745

Sarah Storti

081 - Writin about Culture/Society
MW 630-745 
Evan Cheney

082 - Writing about Culture/Society
MW 200-315

Sarah Storti

083 - Writing about the Arts - Form and Function in Fiction and Argument
TR 500-615
Grant King

084 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing for Social Justice
TR 800-915 

085 - Writing about Culture/Society
MW 500-615
Samantha Wallace

086 - Writing and Community Engagement
MW 630-745

Michelle Gottschlich

087 - Writing and Community Engagement
MW 500-615
Michelle Gottschlich

088 - Writing about Culture/Society - Poetry, Chatting and Prose
MW 630-745
James Ascher

089 - Writing about Culture/Society - Poetry, Chatting and Prose
MW 500-615 
James Ascher

090 - Writing as Multilingual Writers
TR 200-315 
Mahmoud Abdi Tabari

This course will be a single-semester option for multilingual writers looking to fulfill the first writing requirement. This section will focus on the writing process in terms of the challenges and opportunities faced by multilingual writers writing academic prose in English. 

091 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Social (In)Justice
MW 330-445 
Eyal Handelsman Katz

Imagine this: it’s Thanksgiving (or Hanukkah, or any social gathering with people who might not share your ideas). It’s perfectly pleasant (or not) and then – GASP! – someone brings up that topic. The one that always leads to an argument. And it does, and you argue but, afterwards, you are disappointed with how it turned out; perhaps you forgot to say something (or said too much). In this class we will endeavor to not be disappointed. To do so we will learn how to argue but, more importantly, how to think. Our writing will be a vehicle to our thinking. But how does writing relate to social justice? How can we use our writing to enact or advocate for social justice in our community? Since social justice is such a broad concept, in this course we will learn about it through the frame of critical race theory (CRT) and discover how activists, scholars, artists and more engage with racial justice, exploring issues like systemic racism, privilege, and intersectionality. This course will give you opportunities to think and write about the social justice issues you care about so that, when it ends, you are empowered to fight for the causes you believe in and never feel unprepared to discuss the topics that matter to you.

ENWR 1520 - Writing and Community Engagement (2 sections)

001 - Writing about Food Equity 
TR 1230-145 (Bryan 310)
Kate Stephenson

002 - Writing about Food Equity
TR 200-315 (Bryan 310)
Kate Stephenson

ENWR 2510 - Advanced Writing Seminar (5 sections)

001 - Writing about the Arts - Writing for Life
TR 330-445 (New Cabell 036)
Jim Seitz

In what ways can writing assist us in living our lives with passion and insight? How might writing help make us more observant, thoughtful, and curious? What qualities do we find in writing we most admire—and why? In what ways can the act of writing become more enjoyable and instructive? These are some of the questions we’ll address in this course. Be ready to share your writing with your classmates and to comment on what they share with you: student work will be at the center of our attention. We’ll read some published writers, but this is a course in which the writing produced by you and your classmates is what matters most. Writing assignments will be frequent, brief, and experimental. If you’d like to break away from the five-paragraph, intro-body-conclusion formula, you may find this course appealing.

003 - Writing about Identities - Writing Remorse and Repair
TR 1100-1215 (Bryan 334)
Tamika Carey

If the old saying is true and everyone actually make mistakes, then why are apologies so hard to write and why are some apologies more easily dismissed than others? This section of ENWR 2510 explores these questions about remorse and regret from an identity-based perspective to strengthen your methods for writing. Said differently, we will consider how class, race, gender, and other identity markers influence public perceptions of error and we will investigate how social expectations of the way regret should be expressed. By doing so, we will pursue the goal of this course, which is to cultivate and refine your analytical reading techniques, invention processes, composing practices, and strategies for revision and publication. Possible projects include short essays and a digital tracking project. 

005 - Writing about the Arts -
MW 500-615 (Bryan 310)
Charity Fowler

010 - Writing about Culture/Society -
M 600-830 (Bryan 334)
Stephen Parks

011 - Writing about Identities - Contemplative Writing
MW 330-445 (Bryan 330)
Devin Donovan

Beyond First-Year Writing Courses

ENWR 2520 - Special Topics in Writing (4 sections)

001 - Rewriting Yourself: Literacy & the Brain - (This section is reserved for Echols scholars)
MWF 100-150 (Bryan 310)
Heidi Nobles

What do we know and what are we still learning about writing and the human brain? Literacy has dramatically reshaped the human brain over millennia. Yet as literacy itself evolves, we still lack satisfactory data on how writing (and its counterpart, reading) affects our neurology and cognition--and therefore, how literacy affects who we are as humans. In this reading- and writing-intensive course, we will read a range of work on literacy and cognition, including technical and popular treatments of issues such as reading and neural development, brain function during writing tasks, brain activity connected to other creative tasks, and more. We’ll read work from creativity experts, neurologists and cognitive scientists, psychologists, mental health practitioners, computer scientists, and professional writers and editors, all in trying to understand the relationship between literacy and our minds. Reading assignments will include 1-4 extended “read-in” activities; writing assignments will include a combination of creative, reflective, and research-based projects. By the term’s end, you should have an enriched sense of yourself as a reader and writer, and how your literacy practices play into your larger identity.

Note: This class welcomes students with multiple interests and backgrounds for interdisciplinary discussions about how reading and writing affect us all. Students with prior experience in or specialized interest in the brain will be able to dive deeper; students who are more inclined toward the arts and humanities can also expect engaging readings and lively writing assignments. 

002 - New Media Sports Writing -
TR 1230-145 (Bryan 332)
Marcus Meade

This course is designed to help you practice (yeah, I’m talkin’ ’bout practice) rich, revelatory, and engaging sports writing utilizing digital platforms and technologies. Because sports media has become more expansive and complex over time, a wide-range of ways to do it exist. As part of this course, we will discuss different approaches to new media sports writing, their advantages and drawbacks, and we’ll practice with diverse genres and modes. Hopefully, this will provide you with some sense of the variety of ways good sports writing is done and provide you with a critical eye toward sports media.

But mostly, we’re going to have fun making cool stuff.

005 - Writing and Tutoring Across Cultures -
TR 330-445 (New Cabell 107)
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, in partnership with Madison House, will require students to volunteer in the C-ville Community.

008 - Science & Medical Communications - (This section is reserved for Echols Scholars)
MWF 100-150 (New Cabell 056)
Kiera Allison

An accelerated speaking and writing course for Echols Scholars on the premed or science track. We will read broadly across subjects and genres, covering a variety of academic and popular writings in the fields of biology, medicine, and the social and physical sciences; and we will study closely the rhetorical mechanics of syntax and style, inflection and intonation, paraphrase, translation, and vocal notation. Projects include a team-translation, a narrative interview, a video teaching demonstration, and an expository lecture. Expect a steady pace of reading, writing, workshopping, peer-review, technical exercises, and improvisation.

ENWR 2610 - Writing with Style

TR 200-315 (New Cabell 038)
Keith Driver

ENWR 2700 - News Writing

No fake news here, but rather progressive exercises in developing the news-writing style of writing from straight hard news to "soft" features. Satisfies Second Writing Requirement.

001
TR 930-1045 (Bryan 203)
Brian Kelly

002
TR 800-915 (Bryan 203)
Brian Kelly

ENWR 2800 - Public Speaking

001 - (This section is reserved for Echols Scholars)
MWF 1000-1050 (Bryan 310)
Kiera Allison

002
MWF 900-950 (Bryan 310)
Kiera Allison

ENWR 3640 - Writing with Sound

TR 200-315 (New Cabell 111)
Steph Ceraso

We are living in what the mainstream media has called “The Golden Age” of podcasts. Podcast listenership has almost doubled since 2008 and continues to grow steadily. But why? What is it about podcasts that makes people want to “binge listen”? What does audio offer listeners or creators that other modes of composition do not? This project-based course explores podcasting as a dynamic form of 21st century storytelling. Students will learn to script, edit, and produce their own compelling audio stories. In addition to reading about and practicing professional audio storytelling techniques (e.g. writing for the ear, serialized writing, sound and music design), students will collaboratively develop an original three-episode podcast series by the end of the semester. No experience with digital audio editing is necessary. Beginners welcome!

ENWR 3665 - Writing about the Environment

T 330-600 (Bryan 332)
Corey Shaman

ENWR 3900 - Career-Based Writing & Rhetoric

MW 330-445 (Bryan 312)
John 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. (Meets second writing requirement.)