ENC 2210: Community-Engaged Technical Writing-Summer B
ENC 2210 (Technical Writing) is an introduction to technical and professional writing in contemporary workplace environments. This course will also engage with community engaged research, reading, and writing practices. Our class, though online/asynchronous, is an example of a community. We will engage in collaborative learning in our online community, but also in communities that extend beyond the University. We will take the time to reflect on the many communities that we as human beings, students, family members, and more are constantly influencing and are being influenced by. The workplace is often another example of a community with specific professional and communication goals/aims among and between professionals. Understanding how positionalities, histories, and lived experiences influence these aims is vital for understanding the role technical writers play in communities.
ENC 2210: Technical Writing
ENC 2210 (Technical Writing) is an introduction to technical and professional writing in contemporary workplace environments. This course presents you with practical information about—and practice in—communicating within different kinds of professional/technical discourse communities. Throughout the semester, you will analyze and produce common technical writing genres, including emails, letters, resumes, memos, reports, proposals, technical descriptions, definitions, instructions, proposals, and reports.
ENC 1136: Multimodal Writing and Digital Literacy, Fall 2023
In this course, we will use writing about digital media to think about how humans interact with technology to navigate through, engage with, and create media. We will think about how our physical bodies and minds fit into the digital world. The course subtopic, Digital Writing, Digital Bodies, Digital Activism, is our way of expanding our understanding of how multimodal and digital writing is constructed through specific meaning-making strategies for targeted audiences. Digital media potentially serves as a space where creators/users/writers can build communities of support, increase civic engagement, and narrate their lived experiences. However, digital media is also a space where trauma, racism, and oppression exist and are often perpetuated. Platforms and algorithms are consistently manipulated, often perpetuate misinformation, and even hide or “shadowban” content related to specific activists and movements. This course will establish a space for analysis, discussion, and content development relating to the complex links between national and international activism and media.
ENC: 1145: Writing about Myth, Media, and Memory, Spring 2023
From The Odyssey to Red Riding Hood, mythic characters, their original landscapes, and plots have often been revisioned and retold, using old stories for new purposes. In the current digital age, myths have migrated into new media, such as video, podcasts, Instagram and TikTok. Mythic revisions often alter or enhance our understanding of myths, cultural values, and communities. With the increasing popularity of converging myth and media, it becomes pertinent to investigate how, why, and for whom myths have metamorphosed. This course will read various mythic retellings by women writers and engage in how they create new narratives through feminist revisionist mythmaking. Questions driving this class include how women writers subvert or reinforce gender roles and norms, how retellings change our memory of myths, and how multimedia transforms or complicates mythic characters. Students will gain an understanding of the creation, circulation, and revision of popular myths, will be exposed to multiple multimodal mediums and the relationships between texts and media, and develop strategies for close reading and critical analysis.
ENL 2022: Survey of English Literature: 1750-Present, Fall 2022
This survey course serves as an introduction to literary figures and works throughout the Romantic Period, the Victorian Era, and the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries. The authors and texts covered during this course will expand our understanding of the historical and cultural contexts that shaped and continue to inform British identity today. As we work together through our readings, we will reconsider our ideas about literature, its purpose, and its connection to identity. We will encounter a wide variety of literary forms including poetry, novels, short fiction, drama, and non-fiction essays. In this course, we will try to understand these works, the histories they reveal, the reality and fantasy within a nation, and the complexity of human stories. Our readings confront, consider, and contribute to new and old ideas relating to science, medicine, religion, economics, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Following a roughly chronological order, we will trace the ways Britishness has grown and developed and what these stories tell us about a nation, its desires, and its people.
LIT 2110: Survey of World Literature - Ancient to the Renaissance, Spring 2022
This course takes you on an exploration of narratives, cultures, and literary traditions from around the world during a time in history that helped shape some of our modern ideas and ideals. We will read texts ranging from the ancient, medieval, and early modern period in a variety of genres, including epics, drama, poetry and prose. We will voyage across the sea, battle terrifying monsters, meet meddlesome gods and goddesses, and journey with heroes as we discuss the creation of the world, the purpose of life, along with themes of love, lust, war, peace, betrayal, and salvation. You will strengthen your own understanding of world literature while learning about the cultural and historical contexts that birthed these texts. Students will analytically and creatively explore texts through close readings, critical responses, and a research-based multimodal project. Students will also practice analyzing and researching literature and presenting arguments through writing and participating in class discussions.
ENC 1102: Argument and Persuasion
ENC 1102 focuses on the essential stylistics of writing clearly and efficiently within the framework of research writing in the disciplines. Students will learn how to formulate a coherent thesis and defend it logically with evidence drawn from research in specific fields. Students will also learn how to work through the stages of planning, research, organizing, and revising their writing.
ENC 1102 is an introduction to techniques and forms of argument in a broad range of disciplines, including the humanities, social sciences, business, and natural sciences. This course encourages students to investigate the relationship between writing and knowledge and to discover how writing can
create, rather than merely transmit, knowledge. Class discussions will reveal the complementary relationship between writing and research and demonstrate how persuasive techniques and genres vary from discipline to discipline. Students will learn how writing effectively and correctly in their fields will
help to integrate them as professionals into their “knowledge communities."
EN 112: First-Year Composition II
The First-Year Composition EN 112/112H provides additional instruction and practice in the writing of at least four extended compositions, one of which includes an argumentative research project. In addition, the course provides further instruction and practice in the development of skills in prewriting, writing, and revising essays with an emphasis on argumentation for a variety of rhetorical situations. This course provides continued instruction and practice in reading and thinking critically, with an emphasis on primary and secondary source material.
