Sustainability-Focused Writing & Rhetoric

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Course Focus: Rhetoric and Our Common Home This Writing & Rhetoric course incorporates experiential learning and personal service to the Michiana community into a focused study of sustainability rhetoric. We'll consider challenges in stewardship of the earth, and also possibilities for motivating pro-environmental attitudes and behaviors. We will explore how positive encounters with nature can help people to thrive as human beings and to claim their roles as engaged citizens, consciously striving to share what Pope Francis calls "our common home," the created world. In your academic writing and in our class as a whole, you'll take an active part in this community and strengthen your connection both to the land and to the people. In this Community-Engaged course, each student is required to complete at least 10 hours of service for our community partners, in lieu of some of the regular reading and writing work.