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Fall 2020
Apr 18, 2024 |
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| WRPR 0333 - Writing on Contemporary Issues |
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*Writing On Contemporary Issues: Writing, Editing, and Publishing Online*
This course is an introduction to writing prose for a public audience. Students will create both critical and personal essays that feature strong ideas and perspectives. The readings and writing will focus on American popular culture, broadly defined. Essays will critically engage elements of contemporary American popular culture via a vivid personal voice and presence. Readings will address current issues in popular culture – Gladwell, “Brain Candy,” Klosterman, “Campus Confidential,” for instance. /ReMix: Reading in Contemporary Culture/ is the central text. The end result will be a new online magazine of writings on American popular culture 3 hrs. lect.
0.000 OR 1.000 Credit hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lecture hours 0.000 OR 1.000 Lab hours 0.000 TO 2.000 Other hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Interdisciplinary Division Writing and Rhetoric Program Department Course Attributes: AMR, ART, CW, NOR, SOC |
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