Writing 1 emphasizes the pleasures, issues, and formal strategies of literature and strengthens your ability to use language expressively and analytically through “seeing” a theme selected by the instructor. Here, you’ll ponder shades and meanings of blue. In On Being Blue, William Gass suggests, “Of all the colors, blue has the widest range of associations, and the widest bandwidth of emotional tints and shades. It is therefore the most suitable color of interior life.”

Practice writing descriptive, expository, narrative, and analytical essays, inspired by
reading fiction, philosophy, poetry, psychology, and essays. Readings serve as prompts for conversation, research, literary and visual analysis, in support of creative and critical writing, and making art.
 

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