With the ever-extending reach of the internet and social media, we
find ourselves increasingly saturated with information. This myriad
new media is matched only by our resurrection of the old; public
access to the artworks and research of the past is being spread more
widely now than at any time in humanity's history. Developments of
this weight bring with them heavy questions. What messages are
communicated in the sights, sounds, images, and texts that bombard us?
Do new rhetorics complement or cancel out the old? In what ways can
writing — and in particular, that form of writing we traditionally
call “the essay” — be a powerful tool for change in the present?
The purpose of this course is to prepare students to engage
meaningfully and critically with the texts that define our
contemporary social landscape. Students will encounter a range of
texts — visual and print, ancient and contemporary, academic and
popular — and will develop the nuanced composition skills necessary to
reinvent and respond to the world around them.
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