WRCM 103 - Re-envisioning Writing: Connection, Negotiation, and Empowerment

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
We all face myriad situations in which we speak or write to connect with others, whether that involves writing an academic paper, crafting an email, or talking at a public gathering. This course maintains that students have many more resources for this work than they’ve been taught to recognize; our work in this course will help students intentionally and strategically mobilize these resources for various purposes and audiences. Using a “multilingual orientation” that sees the many “languages” we write and speak as assets, we will contemplate the notion of many Englishes, explore the possibilities of “code-meshing,” and play with the possibilities of translation. The course welcomes multilingual writers as well as students who consider themselves monolingual speakers of English and will strive to create a supportive learning community.
This course is appropriate for new students.