Courses
Writing and RhetoricWriting 150 is designed to introduce students to college-level writing, reading, and research with an emphasis on argumentation and rhetorical analysis. WRTG 150 pays particular attention to the ways arguments work within specific discourse communities.
Sections require extensive writing, reading, and research in the area of emphasis. Students will be expected to engage sources, and write in multiple genres, with an awareness of audience, situation, and potential outcomes. Writing and Rhetoric Page |
Advanced Writing: 312 and 313
The emphasis in English 312 is on teaching students to write persuasive arguments. In order to facilitate effective arguments, the class functions as a discourse community where diverse points of view are presented. As students examine alternative viewpoints they learn to question and examine their own reasons for their assertions.
English 313 is an advanced writing course designed to help students become more aware of the rhetorical principles and situations they will find practiced by professionals and academics in the field of education. The focus is on writing process, pedagogy, and professionalization. Advanced Writing Page |
Creative WritingEnglish 218 focuses on reading great literature, attempting to write great literature, and exploring how that literature affects us emotionally, intellectually, and maybe even spiritually. We discuss mindfulness and the importance of what essayist Dinty W. Moore calls “mindful writing.”
We ask the cousin questions: “Why read?” And “Why write?” We practice seeing the world new. We pay attention to what Wordsworth called “Spontaneous overflows of powerful emotion,” and we try to recollect them in tranquility. We write, revise, and share. We create. Creative Writing Page |