Writing 1 is an introduction to college-level writing, reading, and discussion. Initial writing assignments will involve students with language as a personally expressive, creative, and imaginative medium. Later assignments will bring this expressiveness to bear on practical writing tasks typical of college-level work: research, analysis,argument, etc. Reading is designed to stimulate discussion and present models for the students'own writing. Although writing and reading are the main emphases, attention will also be given to informal discussion and oral presentation.Course DescriptionThe iconography of the U.S. resides at times in images of our neighboring Golden Gate Bridge, the Hollywood sign,Yosemite,New York City. Or perhaps in institutions and movements, like the Rainbow Flag, Black Lives Matter, Dakota Pipeline Protest,and the Women's March on Washington. What,then, is America? The course will look into-and beyond-icons,to communities.Our texts will be the arts: sculpture,textiles,photography, documentary video and film, fiction, memoir, poetry, and comics.Our subjects will help us explore the intersections of privilege and power,relationships among race,class, gender and sexuality,age and abledness in the beginning of the 21stcentury.In the end,writing one's own history into the community reveals and contests our threads of connection to the ideaof America.

 

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