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.This course will examine in short essays what’s considered elements of selfhood in modern and non modern societies, and probe how individuals of various cultures encounter themselves and the other, or spaces foreign to them, and how that in turn affects identity. Textual analysis will be key. Technology and access to highly developed technologically advanced societies affects how one looks at the other, but also how one looks at ones’ self. This may affect one’s view of sex, gender roles, one’s mental health, the “foreigner”, the “margins” in society, as well as one’s image and its transmission through various mediums, and in various narratives, among many other issues. The writers, artists, and filmmakers we engage with raise questions and critiques of these issues.

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