Faculty First Year Seminars 191EDU22 - Writing Our Lives: Beginning C

Fall
2019
01
1.00
Sally Galman
TH 10:00AM 10:50AM
UMass Amherst
36010
Totman Phys. Ed. Bldg. rm 153
sally@educ.umass.edu
In this course, students will participate in a professional-grade writer?s workshop geared for beginners. They will read instructive texts and participate in writing and thinking exercises in order to think about the important stories in their lives and how to begin to tell these, and other stories, as an anchor point toward beginning to understand themselves in the changing contexts of their lives as college students.. Students will write their own pieces through formal workshopping with peers and consultation with the instructor.
The course goal is for each student to 1) develop writerly habits, 2) workshop and produce one polished, edited mini-piece (5-10 pages) by the end of the semester and 3) reflect on the work and mindset of the writer and community member.
Freshmen Only
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.