ENGL 380

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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 fall 2024
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	64345	Online	M	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	n.a.	Selznick, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/26/24-12/11/24 Section Title: Special Topics Writing Studies Section Info: FA24 ENGL 380 - Special Topics in Writing Studies - Hilary Selznick - Disability Rhetorics - Through the lens of disability justice pedagogy, this writing studies course focuses on how language frames the disabled body and the rhetorical effects such framing has on the socio-political, cultural, economic, environmental, and material lives of the disabled and how they are experienced, perceived, and treated. In order to do this work, we will first investigate the ways in which normalcy is 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. In addition, we seek to better understand the complex intersections between disability, class, race, gender and sexuality. Students will analyze, critique, and intercede in medical discourses, normalcy, and ableism, which stigmatize and marginalize the disabled in reading responses, discussions, and in their own compositions. 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 accessible compositions for a whole range of users and complicating normalizing notions of composition. Most importantly, this course will challenge medical models of disability that conceive of disability as an individual defect in need of a cure and overcoming and instead celebrate disability as a positive cultural identity.