Advanced Writing and Rhetoric: Write for Your Life (No AI Required)

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Do you wish, sometimes, you could just put your phone away? Do you want the chance to think for yourself, without feeling compelled to turn to Chat? Would you like to take your life back? This course can help. In this writing-intensive course, we will recapture our time, thoughts, and very being by writing through a series of experiences on campus, from walks around the lakes to dedicated reflection in the Basilica to meditative practices in the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art. The majority of the reading and writing for the class will take place during class-time itself, and will offer strategies and practices for reading and writing that you can hold onto in any walk of life. Topics in the course will include writing and reading to learn, experiential writing, communal practices of reading and writing, and methods for resisting the technological attention economy.