Spring 2024 Course Descriptions

Two-Semester First-Year Writing Courses

ENWR 1506 - 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.

001 - Writing about Identities  - Collaborative Inquiry Into Race & Identity
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (CAB 066)
Kate Kostelnik

In this class, we will complete collaborative inquires. The first inquiry will be into race and identity. In March, you and your group will investigate issues of race locally. While all the work you do in all your classes are inquiries into disciplines and subjects, the research and revision that goes into writing projects (or course papers) are usually non-collaborative. In other words, you choose a topic, analyze texts, reflect, and then write. Collaborative inquiry is different in that you and your peers choose the same topic and sources. While you will write your own projects, you will research and discuss sources collaboratively. You will not just work reflectively, but reflexively. This project is based off of Donna Qualley’s Turns of Thought, from which we will read excerpts.

002 - Writing about Culture/Society - American Sports Culture
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 042)
Claire Chantell

003 - Writing about Culture/Society - American Sports Culture​
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 042)
Claire Chantell

004 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Art of the Remix: Music, Media, Culture
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 203)
Patricia Sullivan

The Remix makes something new out of something old. Sometimes an artist remixes his or her own work. Other times an artist uses samples of older work or other people’s work to creatively or critically build new art, new ideas, new meanings. This semester we’ll be looking at where we get our inspiration and ideas from, how we might remix those materials in order to generate new ideas, expressions, and aesthetic experiences for ourselves and others. Along the way, we’ll think about originality, creativity, copyright and intellectual property, sampling and quoting, collage, recycling and repurposing, adaptation, intertextuality, and more. Sometimes we’ll look at music or memes.  Other times we’ll look at movie clips or textual examples. We’ll read about remixes, we’ll analyze remixes, and we’ll make remixes of our own. And of course, we’ll work on developing our writing abilities along the way. What if we think of writing as a kind of remix?

005 - Writing about Culture/Society - Contemporary Pop Culture
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 334)
David Coyoca

006 - Writing about Identities - Collaborative Inquiry Into Race & Identity
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 066)
Kate Kostelnik

In this class, we will complete collaborative inquires. The first inquiry will be into race and identity. In March, you and your group will investigate issues of race locally. While all the work you do in all your classes are inquiries into disciplines and subjects, the research and revision that goes into writing projects (or course papers) are usually non-collaborative. In other words, you choose a topic, analyze texts, reflect, and then write. Collaborative inquiry is different in that you and your peers choose the same topic and sources. While you will write your own projects, you will research and discuss sources collaboratively. You will not just work reflectively, but reflexively. This project is based off of Donna Qualley’s Turns of Thought, from which we will read excerpts.

007 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Art of Protest; how protest music, film and literature influence society
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 042)
Amber McBride

008 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Art of the Remix: Music, Media, Culture
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 203)
Patricia Sullivan

The Remix makes something new out of something old. Sometimes an artist remixes his or her own work. Other times an artist uses samples of older work or other people’s work to creatively or critically build new art, new ideas, new meanings. This semester we’ll be looking at where we get our inspiration and ideas from, how we might remix those materials in order to generate new ideas, expressions, and aesthetic experiences for ourselves and others. Along the way, we’ll think about originality, creativity, copyright and intellectual property, sampling and quoting, collage, recycling and repurposing, adaptation, intertextuality, and more. Sometimes we’ll look at music or memes.  Other times we’ll look at movie clips or textual examples. We’ll read about remixes, we’ll analyze remixes, and we’ll make remixes of our own. And of course, we’ll work on developing our writing abilities along the way. What if we think of writing as a kind of remix?

009 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Sports
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (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 with contemporary-minded stunt journalism and blogging projects. In doing so, students explore how athletics serves to negotiate personal identity and test the limits of what it means to be human.  

Single-Semester First-Year Writing Courses

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.

002 - Writing about Culture/Society - Analog Games, Culture, and Community
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 332)
Chandler Jennings
 
003 - Writing about the Arts
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 036)
Hodges Adams

How do we react to art and writing that we find difficult to understand? What is the role of difficulty in a novel, a painting, or a book of poetry? This class emphasizes close reading and close attention to the particulars of a text, and which particulars of its construction can lead the reader to understanding. Students should expect to read across a variety of genres and forms, both fictional and non-fictional. Students themselves will focus on their own process as writers, what difficulties they face, and how we clearly and effectively communicate our ideas in the modern environment—or how we don't. 

004 - Writing about Digital Media - Writing about Video Games
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 334)
Caroline Ford

005 - Writing about Identities - Aliens & Identity
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 312)
Charity Fowler
 
006 - Writing about the Arts
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 115)
Hodges Adams

How do we react to art and writing that we find difficult to understand? What is the role of difficulty in a novel, a painting, or a book of poetry? This class emphasizes close reading and close attention to the particulars of a text, and which particulars of its construction can lead the reader to understanding. Students should expect to read across a variety of genres and forms, both fictional and non-fictional. Students themselves will focus on their own process as writers, what difficulties they face, and how we clearly and effectively communicate our ideas in the modern environment—or how we don't. 
 
007 - Writing about Science & Tech - Technology & Social Change
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (BRN 332)
Eric Rawson
 
008 - Writing about Culture/Society - Argument and Civic Participation
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (RTN 152)
George Abry
 
009 - Writing about the Arts
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (CAB 068)
Kathryn Holmstrom
 
010 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 332)
Keith Driver
 
011 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Environments​
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (KER 317)
John T. Casteen IV

012 - Multilingual Writers
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (CAB 064)
Davy Tran
 
013 - Writing about Culture/Society - Law, Crime, and Popular Culture
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (KER 317)
Bambi Whitaker
 
Like modernity itself, the guiding touchstone for this class will be detection as you engage with the techniques necessary both to articulate and support your own arguments as well as to investigate and analyze the arguments of others. In order to achieve these ends, we will draw on detective fiction, public trials, and media representations of true crime, while exploring a plethora of intersections. Using a mix of genres and media, as we consider the many aspects of culture’s continuing fascination with law and crime, we will ask questions like:  Why is detective/crime fiction still the most read popular fiction? Why is detective fiction one of the few literary genres where women authors lead?  How does gender intertwine with crime, both true and fictional? How does the celebritizing of lawyers and public trials impact perceptions of crime and justice? How accurate are fictional representations of law and crime? How has podcasting, YouTube, and social media impacted our understandings of legal proceedings? 

014 - Writing about Culture/Society - Framing and Solving UVa Problems
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 330)
Jon D'Errico
 
015 - Writing & Community Engagement
MW 10:00AM-11:15AM (CAB 209)
Piers Gelly
 
016 - Writing about Culture/Society - Encountering the Self
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 407)
Nial Buford
 
017 - Writing about Science & Tech - Technology & Social Change
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 332)
Eric Rawson
 
018 - Writing about Culture/Society - Queering the Narrative
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 187)
Reese Arbini
 
019 - Writing about Identities
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 056)
John Modica
 
020 - Writing about Identities
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (CAB 064)
devin donovan
 
021 - Writing about Culture/Society - Public Memory
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 056)
Sarah Richardson

022 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 310)
Kate Natishan
 
024 - Writing about Digital Media - Worldbuilding in Social Media Spaces
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 310)
Dana Little
  
025 - Writing about Culture/Society - Encountering the Self
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 183)
Nial Buford
 
027 - Writing about Digital Media - Exploring the Present
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (RTN 152)
Jeddie Sophronius
 
028 - Writing about Culture/Society - Framing and Solving UVa Problems
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 330)
Jon D'Errico
 
029 - Writing about Identities - Stories of the "I"
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 044)
Jack Bradford
 
030 - Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 312)
Cory Shaman
 
031 - Writing about the Arts - Imagining Academia
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 334)
Kathryn Webb-Destefano
 
032 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Landscape
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (CAB 594)
Shalmi Barman
 
033 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing About Love
TR 08:00-09:15AM (CAB 115)
Allison Gish
 
034 - Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 332)
Cory Shaman
 
035 - Multilingual Writers
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (CAB 107)
Davy Tran
 
036 - 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.  

037 - Writing about Culture/Society - A Language Workshop
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 056)
Lucas Martinez
 
038 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Beyond Doom
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 330)
Sophia Zaklikowski
 
039 - Writing about Culture/Society Quiet Soundings: Rhetorics of Curiosity
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 044)
Makshya Tolbert
 
040 - Writing about Identities - Poetic Fragments: Re-imagining the Personal Essay
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (CAB 044)
Kaitlyn Airy
 
041 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Personal Essay
MW 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 330)
Xiwen Wang
 
042 - Writing about Identities - Writing About Bodies
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 334)
Rynx Schulz
 
043 - Writing about the Arts - Writing Environments
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (KER 317)
John T. Casteen IV
 
044 - Writing about Culture/Society - Poetics of Apocalypse
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 036)
Coby-Dillon English
 
045 - Writing about Culture/Society - Stories to Persist, Stories to Resist
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (BRN 334)
Allison Correll 
 
046 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing About Mental Health
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 036)
Abigail Puckett
 
047 - Writing about the Arts - Writing about Television
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (CAB 064)
Cristina Griffin
 
048 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Money
MW 03:00PM-04:15PM (BRN 334)
Katherine Cart
 
049 - Writing about Culture/Society - Stories to Persist, Stories to Resist
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM (CAB 044)
Allison Correll
 
050 - Writing about the Arts
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (CAB 068)
Kathryn Holmstrom
 
051 - Writing about the Arts - (Re)writing About Remakes
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 312)
Sam Pfander
 
052 - Writing about Culture/Society - Public Memory
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 334)
Sarah Richardson
 
053 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Archive and You: Writing About Knowledge
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM (CAB 068)
Lauren Parker
 
054 - Writing about Science & Technology
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 310)
Kate Natishan
 
055 - Writing about Culture/Society - Rhetorics of Storytelling Across Media and Cultures
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 594)
Sethunya Mokoko
 
056 - Writing about Culture/Society - Analog Games, Culture, and Community
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (AST 265)
Chandler Jennings
 
057 - Writing about Culture/Society - Law, Crime, and Popular Culture
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (BRN 310)
Bambi Whitaker
 
Like modernity itself, the guiding touchstone for this class will be detection as you engage with the techniques necessary both to articulate and support your own arguments as well as to investigate and analyze the arguments of others. In order to achieve these ends, we will draw on detective fiction, public trials, and media representations of true crime, while exploring a plethora of intersections. Using a mix of genres and media, as we consider the many aspects of culture’s continuing fascination with law and crime, we will ask questions like:  Why is detective/crime fiction still the most read popular fiction? Why is detective fiction one of the few literary genres where women authors lead?  How does gender intertwine with crime, both true and fictional? How does the celebritizing of lawyers and public trials impact perceptions of crime and justice? How accurate are fictional representations of law and crime? How has podcasting, YouTube, and social media impacted our understandings of legal proceedings? 

058 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing and the Art of Slowing Down
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 312)
Christian Carlson
 
059 - Writing about the Arts - Quiet Soundings: Rhetorics of Curiosity
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 044)
Makshya Tolbert
 
060 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Money
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 036)
Katherine Cart
 
061 - Writing about the Arts - Writing About Film
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (CAB 064)
Tanner Eckstein
 
062 - Writing about Digital Media - Worldbuilding in Social Media Spaces
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 068)
Dana Little
 
063 - Writing about Science & Tech
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (CAB 044)
Maggie Marangionne
 
064 - Writing about the Arts - Writing About Alienation
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (CAB 044)
Alex Buckley
 
065 - Writing about the Arts - Food Writing
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 334)
Wheeler Light
 
066 - Writing about Science & Tech
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 056)
Maggie Marangionne

067 - Writing about Identities
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM (CAB 064)
devin donovan
 
068 - Writing about the Arts - Food Writing
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 334)
Wheeler Light
 
069 - Writing about Culture/Society - Rhetorics of Storytelling Across Media and Cultures
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 330)
Sethunya Mokoko
 
070 - Writing about Culture/Society - The Rhetoric of Empathy
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (CAB 183)
Tochi Eze
 
071 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 332)
Keith Driver
 
073 - Writing about Identities
MWF 02:00PM-02:50PM (BRN 330)
Henrietta Hadley

074 - Writing about Culture/Society - Folk Culture, Identity, and Society
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM (BRN 310)
Aindrila Choudhury

075 - Writing about Culture/Society - Humor as Culture
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 334)
Regan Schadl

076 - Writing about the Arts - Writing About Horror
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 332)
Olivia Barrett

ENWR 1520 - Writing and Community Engagement (1 section)

001 - Writing and Community Engagement - Writing about Food Justice
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM (BRN 312)
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 working 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.

ENWR 2510 - Advanced Writing Seminar (5 sections)

001 - Writing about Culture/Society - Fandom Ethnography
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 312)
Charity Fowler

003 - Writing about Science & Technology - Technology & Social Change
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 330)
Eric Rawson

005 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Medicine
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 330)
Rhiannon Goad

With false data and unsourced health guidance littering our social media feeds, we live in a dangerous era of medical misinformation. Developing practical skills to communicate accurate medical information could save someone's life. In this course, you will develop storytelling skills and sharpen your ability to identify misleading medical information. In a series of essays, you will practice writing about medicine for a public audience.

006 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Medicine
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 330)
Rhiannon Goad

007 - Writing about Digital Media - Writing and/as Technology
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (CAB 064)
Kevin Smith

Description: From targeted ads to TikTok influencers, Twitter to the Metaverse, BeReal to ChatGPT, much of our cultural experience is shaped and informed by digital technologies and much of our writing and communication circulates online. But the relationship between writing, technology, and culture is not a new one—in fact, writing itself is a technology that fundamentally changed culture. This section of 2510 will examine historical, current, and future trends in this nexus of writing, technology and culture. We’ll ask, among other questions: What is our relationship to the technologies we use and how those relationships intersect with our reading and writing practices? What is the future of writing and generative AI? What can the past tell us about the future of writing and generative AI? How can practicing forms of digital writing and communication help us to be more thoughtful, agile, and successful writers in digital spaces and IRL?

Beyond First-Year Writing Courses

ENWR 2520 - Special Topics in Writing

004 - Writing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 310)
Kate Kostelnik

In this writing course we’ll contribute to conversations of race and history at UVA through self-designed writing projects. The first part of the course will be an inquiry into the history of enslaved laborers at UVA and how the writers of the Declaration of Independence framed our country—particularly in terms of equality, individual liberty, and the institution of slavery— (texts: Danielle Allen’s Our Declaration, Sullivan’s Commission on Slavery and the University, excerpts from Nelson and Harold’s Charlottesville 2017, and excerpts from Nelson and McInnis’s Educated in Tyranny). Next, we will look at how writers speak back to silences and suppressed narratives (texts:  Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad, Petrosino’s White Blood, and Sharpe’s In the Wake). Throughout the course, we’ll look at current conversations about racial justice at UVA and beyond as well as community responses compiled by the Institute for Engagement and Negotiation (IEN) in designing and executing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers.

005 - Writing Democratic Rights
(ECHOLS ONLY)

T 06:00PM-08:30PM (BRN 330)
Stephen Parks

006 - Writing Human Rights
M 06:00PM-08:30PM (BRN 332)
Stephen Parks

007 - Writing and Games
(ECHOLS ONLY)

TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 334)
Kate Natishan

Play is essential to our growth. Games teach us how to move, how to balance, how to coordinate our hands and eyes, 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.

008 - Literacy & the Brain
(ECHOLS ONLY)

MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM (BRN 312)
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 a series of “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.

009 - Audible Writing
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM (BRN 310)
Jon D'Errico

Text meets audio. As a class, we'll explore, analyze, and produce audible writing about UVa and Charlottesville in a range of genres, from podcast-style scripts to hybrid multi-modal documents. Appropriate for students who combine strong writing with a lively and engaged intellectual curiosity, this course meets the second writing requirement.

010 - Writing in a Global World
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 312)
Dana Little

“This course investigates and uses artistic and critical inquiry into global cultures to understand 21st-century writing methodologies. We will dissect the creation process of modern media and arts, exploring how they are produced and consumed across cultures. Using theoretical approaches to global media and communications, we will develop the skills necessary to critically analyze complex media practices and interpret and develop media messages across cultures, nations, and markets.”

011 - Rhetorics of Personhood
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM (BRN 332)
Sarah Richardson

This writing course will analyze conversations on social and ethical issues that are legally enforced. In particular, this course will examine personhood, identity, and representation through legal and ethical lenses. We will employ rhetoric to examine
how discussions of oppression are represented when communities have been oppressed because of legal allowances but pose ethical issues.

013 - Race, Rhetoric, and Social Justice
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM (BRN 330)
Sethunya Mokoko

This course examines how the study of race, rhetoric, and social justice can help us make sense of our times and empower us to actively engage in the struggle for diversity, equity, and inclusion on our campus and in communities worldwide. The rhetorics and racialized identities will consist of indigenous peoples, African descent, Latinx, and social activism, including Counter-theory, decolonization initiatives., and intersectionality. 

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 (SHIN 111)
Kate Sweeney

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.

ENWR 2800 - Public Speaking

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM (CAB 191)
devin donovan

ENWR 3500 - Topics in Advanced Writing & Rhetoric

001 - Environmental Justice Writing
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM (BRN 310)
Cory Shaman

ENWR 3640 - Writing with Sound

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 330)
Piers Gelly

ENWR 3660 - Travel Writing

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM (BRN 312)
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, forum posts, peer reviews, and formal papers, we will explore the world of travel writing.  Since we all write best about ideas 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 3900 - The Forbes Seminars in Career-based Writing and Rhetoric

TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (BRN 312)
Keith Driver