WOST 23000 - Writing For Social Change

Study of writing as an instrument to advance social justice and practice in producing researched writing projects that support community and institutional transformation. Emphasis on research methods and documentation, rhetorical and cultural analysis, and writing for a variety of contexts. May involve direct work with communities outside the university.

Preparation for Course
P: ENGL 13100 (or equivalent).

Cr. 3.
Student Learning Outcomes
1. Produce texts that use appropriate formats, genre conventions, and documentation styles while controlling tone, syntax, grammar, and spelling.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of writing as a social process that includes multiple drafts, collaboration, and reflection.
3. Read critically, summarize, apply, analyze, and synthesize information and concepts in written and visual texts as the basis for developing original ideas and
claims.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of writing assignments as a series of tasks, including identifying and evaluating useful and reliable outside sources.
5. Develop, assert, and support a focused thesis with appropriate reasoning and adequate evidence.
6. Compose texts that exhibit appropriate rhetorical choices, which include attention to audience, purpose, context, genre, and convention.
7. Demonstrate proficiency in reading, evaluating, analyzing, and using material collected from electronic sources (such as visual, electronic, library databases,
Internet sources, other official databases, federal government databases, reputable blogs, wikis, etc.).
8. Demonstrate an understanding of the rhetorical tradition of using public writing as an instrument for social critique and as a means of personal, community,
institutional, and/or political dialogue and transformation.
9. Demonstrate the ability to design and carry out a community action project on an appropriate topic that connects analysis and action through an educational
experience that reaches beyond the classroom.