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 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 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 course explores the relationship between genre and transfer as social action. Rhetorical approaches to genre analyze how texts emerge from and shape recurring social situations. Theories of transfer in writing studies explore how writers? literate knowledge moves (or doesn't) across social situations. So how, then, are genres implicated in the transfer of writing knowledge? How might rhetorical genres and writing transfer work together to shape writers? attempts at social action and change.

The study of rhetoric is traditionally concerned with how messages are crafted to achieve desired effects in audiences. The oldest rhetorical theories were mainly arts of public speech, but rhetoric has also been important as a school subject devoted to eloquence more generally, including arts of written composition. Today, "rhetoric" is probably best known as a term of political abuse; but, in the academy, it survives in a variety of approaches for looking at the suasory function of discourse.

This course will begin with two basic, yet elusive questions: what is fiction, and what is a "world"? By delving into the history of fiction and different models for theorizing worlds, we will examine the ways in which these questions are inextricably intertwined. In particular, we will explore fiction's potential as an imaginative and speculative art form invested in the creation of new worlds.

This course will focus on 10 individual books of poetry. Some of the books for the seminar will include a researched based project: Bhanu Kapil, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers; political invective: Sean Bonney, Letters to the Firmament; Caribbean Anglophone diaspora: Mark McMorris, Entrepot; and eco-poetics: Juliana Spahr, This Connection of Everyone with Lungs; among others. Seminar members will be asked to write a one-page response to each of the books each week and be ready for lively discussion. Satisfies MFA Contemporary Poetry requirement.

This interdisciplinary seminar serves as a core course of the Decolonial Global Studies Certificate (DGS). Students from all disciplines are welcome whether or not you are pursuing the Certificate. Focusing on non-eurocentric, non-androcentric analyses of world political economy and culture, we will engage with diverse emancipatory and critical approaches, including decolonial, postcolonial, Indigenous, intersectional, queer, Marxist, speculative, transnational, and inter-imperial.