Writing About Culture and Society

Catalog description

How does writing work to create and shape cultures? How do cultures represent and preserve themselves through writing and other composing practices? In this course on the rhetorics of marginalized cultures, students read, analyze, and write about the cultures and rhetorical practices of marginalized groups with a focus on the culture of one or more groups historically underrepresented or misrepresented in popular and academic cultures. Writing assignments comprise the majority of the grade in this dedicated writing course.