ENGL 380

Spring 2022 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 18-May 4

Topics in Writing Studies

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Credit: 3 hours.

Advanced-level work in the field of Writing Studies. Building upon a traditional disciplinary understanding of writing as rhetoric, this course invites students to call upon sociological, anthropological, and/or ideological approaches to the study of writing in order to understand the myriad ways that writing makes meaning(s). See Class Schedule for topics.

May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours. Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

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ENGL 380 class schedule data for spring 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	59085	Online	S1	3:30PM -4:45PM	TR	n.a.	Selznick, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/18/22-05/04/22 Section Title: Topics in Writing Study Section Info: SP22 ENGL 380 - Topic: Disability, Language and the Body: This special topics writing course focuses on how language and rhetoric frame how visible and invisible disabilities are experienced, perceived, and treated. We will do so this work by investigating the ways in which discourses of normalcy are used to create the “normal’’ and “abnormal” body, and how bodily norms structure rhetorical expression. Specifically, we will examine how critical works, life-writing, “compositions” both traditional and “multimodal” film, and a range of new media texts perpetuate, construct, and challenge who is deemed normal and abnormal, fit and unfit, and desirable and deviant. We also seek to better understand the complex intersections between disability, socioeconomics, race, gender and sexuality. In addition to writing traditional alphabetic compositions, students in this course will create multimodal compositions that make use of auditory, visual, oral, and other sensory modes of expression. By doing so, students in this class will be producing more accessible compositions for a whole range of users and complicating normalizing notions of composition.