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Introduction to Composition is a writing workshop focused on writing as inquiry—using writing as a means of learning about ourselves and the communities around us.
This course will introduce students to a broad range of poetry, both literary and otherwise. Students will choose a living poet and trace their influences with and without literary traditions.
In this course we will draw, write, compose, edit, and publish original comics. As we doodle and scribble, we enter a journey of seeing, and we’ll continue to make marks “until we arrive at the unthinkable.” (Barry).
In this course we will engage with queer rhetorical strategies through queer archives, art, and activism, defining queerness as a way of “destabilizing fixed notions of identity.”
Collective Zine Making is a workshop for students to engage with making zines in a collective, as well as reading zines through academic and so-called “non-academic” lenses.
This course is a writing workshop that focuses on the analysis and production of arguments in a variety of media. Students will work collaboratively to compose effective arguments via podcasts.
This course will develop your skill in identifying, researching, and manipulating texts that are practical to your chosen field of study and that you find interesting.
This course helps students develop an introductory understanding of the work and techniques of poets considered “canonical” as well as contemporary poets (with an emphasis on marginalized identities).
This course explores creative nonfiction, a genre that attempts to be true. Students will examine a spectrum of texts to practice various styles and strategies in their own creative and personal work.