This college-level reading- and writing-intensive course invites students to explore writing as a social act that is influenced by larger systems of power. Assignments ask students to integrate theories of language and literacy with personal experience to reflect upon their own experiences as writers. All classes are held workshop-style in computer classrooms to allow for writing, collaboration, and consultation among students and between students and teacher. The course prepares students for ENGLWRIT 112 by introducing practices used in process-based writing courses. (Gen. Ed. I & DU)

This college-level reading- and writing-intensive course invites students to explore writing as a social act that is influenced by larger systems of power. Assignments ask students to integrate theories of language and literacy with personal experience to reflect upon their own experiences as writers. All classes are held workshop-style in computer classrooms to allow for writing, collaboration, and consultation among students and between students and teacher. The course prepares students for ENGLWRIT 112 by introducing practices used in process-based writing courses. (Gen. Ed. I & DU)

This class is an opportunity for intensive study in one of the most promising areas of development in Trans Studies, a field of thought aptly described by Elle O?Rourke and Jules Gleeson as "Transgender Marxism." The course will explore the intersection of Marxist thought and struggles around gender and sexuality.

This course is focused on the works of contemporary poets who have revolutionized the epic poem to express socio-political dissent. Through poems, essays, interviews and performance, we'll examine the use of the lyric, fragment, rant and other speech as both formal innovation and interrogations of oppressive structures and systems. Some questions we'll consider are: How might we define and redefine the conventions of the traditional epic? What possible tensions exist between the narrative and the lyric?

Designed as a survey of key issues, pedagogies, and cultural shifts in which writing and technology are embedded, this course seeks to examine how digitality, writ large, affects how we think about, produce, and theorize writing. The course will examine how digital technologies alter not only the form and materials of writing but also the role writing plays within new economies and how it participates within changing ideologies.

A Stay Against Silence. From antiquity to the contemporary epoch, writers have explored the tension between the competing grids of freedom and power. Our human quest for autonomy, self-enlargement and the exercise of free will is often besieged by predatory power. Numerous classical and contemporary texts have dramatized this struggle between subjects who strive to speak their memories and authoritarian figures who essay to suppress and silence them, even to erase their stories.

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