English 119 - WRITING ROUNDTABLE

Students hone their writing skills (defined broadly to include critical thinking, research and documentation, argument development and mastery of written English) as they enhance their understanding of an issue of current import and consequence. They read and write in a variety of genres (ranging from experience narratives to academic essays) and supplement their required reading with excursions to scholarly and cultural venues at Smith. Prerequisite: One WI course or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. WI This writing-intensive course examines how both the scientific and literary world are responding to changing temperatures and weather now observed globally. Students hone their science writing skills in the context of examining climate change. Through scientific, engineering and literary perspectives, we examine how our future world is likely to be shaped and how people are responding or can respond to global warming and its related challenges. Our sources will include literary essays and nature/science writing, scientific papers, newspaper articles and government/nonprofit publications. Prerequisite: One WI course or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to 15.

Topic: This Overheating World.