Logistics
- Course times and location: Tuesday and Thursdays 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (EST)
- Mode of delivery: Distance Learning
- Credit hours: 3
Course Description
The purpose of this course is to give you an opportunity to reflect on what you have been taught about reading and writing and how you’ve experienced reading and writing (both in academic settings and non-academic settings). We all bring our upbringings, educational backgrounds, interests, and identities to the classroom. The way we feel about reading and writing and how we use those skills in our personal and academic lives vary based on all of those factors and experiences. We will explore different ways of reading and, by extension, different ways of writing. This course trusts that every one of you comes into this space as experts of your own lives and experiences. Using that knowledge, we will explore what it means to be an active reader and writer who engages, converses, and responds to texts. In short, we will engage with the questions: Who is a writer? What does a writer do? According to whom? How do we read and why? This class will challenge what you’ve come to know as reading and writing, in the hopes that together, we can build a new class understanding of reading and writing and all it has the potential to be.
Course Theme
As we navigate creating a new understanding of reading and writing, our primary goal will be to align what we are learning to your professional and academic needs. This class assumes that some of you are wrapping up your time within academic settings (and moving on to a professional/work environment), while others might be applying for and planning to attend graduate school or other educational opportunities. In both cases, your relationships with reading and writing will change. This course will challenge you to think critically about that change and how to transfer the skills you’ve been building to this new phase of your career (academic or not). With this in mind, the class is organized to help you work towards a project that fits your individual trajectory and clarifies your relationship to reading and writing skills in different contexts.
Course Environment
Efforts will be made to include content forecasts (an overview of the content of class discussion, readings, and class materials), so that each of you can make decisions that sustain your mental and emotional health. This space upholds the humanity of each student and the right to fair and equal treatment while we share space. Discrimination against any individual based upon protected status, which is defined as age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status, is prohibited.
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