Adv. 1st听Year Writing & Rhetoric: Honors
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General Education: Skills - Written Communication 鈥� LD
Course Description:
The informal theme for this honors writing course鈥斺�淐omposing Knowledge鈥濃�攐ffers a play on words that hints at our working during the semester.
Higher education has its own rules鈥攔ules about who is heard, who is silenced, what counts as knowledge, what works as persuasion. Students must learn a new set of conventions, a secret handshake if you will, as they enter college and become apprenticed in a particular discipline. This course will consider how we 鈥渃ompose鈥� knowledge, and in the process it will offer some 鈥渃omposing knowledge.鈥� We鈥檒l read essays on academic culture drawn from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, with the goal of providing students with intellectual tools for investigating their own ways across the university experience. Three short essays will lay the foundation for an extended project of the student鈥檚 own design that incorporates both research and ethnographic fieldwork on one facet of academic culture.
I believe our work together in the fall can serve as a cornerstone for your academic success at CU-麻豆影院. This advanced first-year writing course will orient you to the University Libraries on campus, and to the expectations for academic writing on campus. And we鈥檒l have fun doing so by exploring how we compose knowledge in a wide variety of disciplines. Ours will be a collaborative classroom, where we can support each other as writers and readers.
