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.Section Description:An apocalypse can be understood as an end (or 'the end'), an inevitability, a cycle, a social construct, or a conspiracy theory. There are real-world apocalypses and there are fictional apocalypses that hold a mirror up to the world that we live in. The idea of an apocalypse, real or fictional, intersects with the same ideological, cultural, hegemonic, and human phenomenon that we experience every day. In this class we will investigate the idea of apocalypse, as it appears in society, fiction, and art, through a socially responsible and critical lens, and as a way of understanding the world around us.

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