104. First Year Seminar
in Interdisciplinary Studies. (4). (Introductory
Composition).
Section 001 – Writing With, From, and Against Pictures.
What happens to experience when it is represented in pictures?
What kinds of pictures do the stories we tell and hear create?
How do words and pictures work with and against one another? Why
do many children (and some adults) draw their way into writing?
In this course we will consider these and other related questions
as we look at and write about cave paintings, picture books, drawings, and photographs. We will explore the languages of color and line
as we make field trips to museums and bring images from museums
into our classroom; we will think about how pictures and stories
change us and the way we see the world; we will write with, from
and against pictures, developing capacities for composing and for seeing. Course texts will include William Blake's Songs
of Innocence and of Experience, John Steinbeck's Harvest
Gypsies, Joy Harjo and Stephen Storm's Secrets from the
Center of the World, Art Spiegelman's Maus, Dale
Maharidge's Journey to Nowhere, and Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. There will be four
major papers, and daily informal writing. This course will satisfy the introductory composition requirement. (Gere)
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