Critical Writing Seminar in Art History

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This writing seminar focuses on a scholarly inquiry in the field of Art History, the study of art objects, their historical development, and their stylistic contexts. This seminar will introduce students to scholarly conversations on a specific topic in this discipline as a basis for understanding discipline- and profession-based writing. This includes types of reasoning, evidence, citation practices, and other means of creating, testing, and sharing knowledge with diverse audiences. Throughout, students are introduced to new writing situations as a means of sharpening their skills and learning how to be adaptive, effective writers.