HON 245 - Writing for Life

Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This workshop-based seminar course encourages students to practice and discuss core concepts in writing studies. Writing is viewed as a complex social and rhetorical activity that requires significant cognition, creativity, and collaboration. Students from different disciplines come together to explore how language and visual storytelling can express and negotiate a particular point of view across various genres, media, and rhetorical situations. Students engage in various composing practices and texts and produce original products that are analytical, original, and multi-modal. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits