Spring 2024 Course Descriptions

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
Kate Kostelnik

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

009 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing about Sports
MW 02:00PM-03:15PM
Rhiannon Goad

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
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Kevin Smith

002 - TBD
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
TBD
 
003 - TBD
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD

004 - TBD
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM
TBD

005 - Writing about Identities - Aliens & Identity
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM
Charity Fowler
 
006 - TBD
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
007 - Writing about Science & Tech - Technology & Social Change
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM
Eric Rawson
 
008 - TBD
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
TBD
 
009 - TBD
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM
TBD
 
010 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM
Keith Driver
 
011 - Writing about Culture/Society - Writing Environments​
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM
John T. Casteen IV

012 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM
Davy Tran
 
013 - TBD
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM
TBD
 
014 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
Jon D'Errico
 
015 - Writing & Community Engagement
MW 10:00AM-11:15AM
Piers Gelly
 
016 - TBD
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD
 
017 - Writing about Science & Tech - Technology & Social Change
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
Eric Rawson
 
018 - TBD
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
019 - TBD
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
020 - Writing about Identities
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
devin donovan
 
021 - Writing about Culture/Society - Public Memory
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
Sarah Richardson

022 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Kate Natishan
 
023 - TBD
MWF 08:00AM-08:50AM
TBD
 
024 - Writing about Digital Media - Worldbuilding in Social Media Spaces
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM
Dana Little
  
025 - TBD
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
026 - TBD
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM (Bryan 310)
TBD
 
027 - TBD
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
TBD
 
028 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
Jon D'Errico
 
029 - TBD
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD
 
030 - Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Cory Shaman
 
031 - TBD​
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
TBD
 
032 - TBD
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
TBD
 
033 - TBD
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD
 
034 - Writing about Science & Tech - Citizen Science
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Cory Shaman
 
035 - Writing about Culture/Society
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM
Davy Tran
 
036 - Writing & Community Engagement - Walking Charlottesville
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
Kate Stephenson
 
037 - TBD
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
038 - TBD
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
TBD
 
039 - TBD
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD
 
040 - TBD
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
TBD
 
041 - TBD
MW 08:00AM-09:15AM
TBD
 
042 - TBD
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
TBD
 
043 - Writing about the Arts - Writing Environments
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
John T. Casteen IV
 
044 - TBD
MW 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD
 
045 - TBD
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
TBD 
 
046 - TBD
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
047 - Writing about the Arts - Writing about Television
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Cristina Griffin
 
048 - TBD
MW 03:00PM-04:15PM
TBD
 
049 - TBD
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM
TBD
 
050 - TBD
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
TBD
 
051 - TBD
MWF 01:00PM-01:50PM
TBD
 
052 - Writing about Culture/Society - Public Memory
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Sarah Richardson
 
053 - TBD
MWF 10:00AM-10:50AM
TBD
 
054 - Writing about Science & Technology
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Kate Natishan
 
055 - Writing about Culture/Society - Rhetorics of Storytelling Across Media and Cultures
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Sethunya Mokoko
 
056 - TBD
TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
TBD
 
057 - TBD
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
TBD
 
058 - TBD
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
TBD
 
059 - TBD
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
060 - TBD
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
061 - TBD
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM
TBD
 
062 - Writing about Digital Media - Worldbuilding in Social Media Spaces
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Dana Little
 
063 - TBD
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
TBD
 
064 - TBD
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
065 - TBD
TR 05:00PM-06:15PM (Bryan 334)
TBD
 
066 - TBD
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD

067 - Writing about Identities
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
devin donovan
 
068 - TBD
MW 05:00PM-06:15PM
TBD
 
069 - Writing about Culture/Society - Rhetorics of Storytelling Across Media and Cultures
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM
Sethunya Mokoko
 
070 - TBD
MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM
TBD
 
071 - Writing about Culture/Society
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
Keith Driver
 
072 - TBD
MWF 09:00AM-09:50AM
TBD
 
073 - TBD
MWF 02:00PM-02:50PM
TBD

074 - TBD
TR 08:00AM-09:15AM
TBD

075 - TBD
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD

076 - TBD
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
TBD

001 - Writing and Community Engagement - Writing about Food Justice
TR 12:30PM-01:45PM
Kate Stephenson

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

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

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

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

004 - Writing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA
TR 03:30PM-04:45PM
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[1] (IEN) in designing and executing the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers[2].

005 - Writing Democratic Rights
T 06:00PM-08:30PM
Stephen Parks

006 - Writing Human Rights
M 06:00PM-08:30PM
T. Kenny Fountain

007 - Writing and Games
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
Kate Natishan

008 - Literacy & the Brain
MWF 12:00PM-12:50PM
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
Jon D'Errico

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

011 - Rhetorics of Personhood
TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Sarah Richardson

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

TR 05:00PM-06:15PM
Keith Driver

TR 11:00AM-12:15PM
Patricia Sullivan

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.

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Kate Sweeney

MW 03:30PM-04:45PM
devin donovan

001 - Environmental Justice Writing
TR 02:00PM-03:15PM
Cory Shaman

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Piers Gelly

TR 09:30AM-10:45AM
Kate Stephenson