Intersections: Writing for Scholarly Publics

(4 Credits)

Students of diverse academic interests engage in interdisciplinary conversations about scholarly questions relevant to a larger public. Students will conduct research and write with attention to their audience, starting with the community of the seminar and ambitiously imagining a wider scholarly public through omnivorous research and reading, investigating principles of disciplinarily and the innovative potential of interdisciplinary research, thinking, and discovery. While studying the work of public scholars, students will learn advanced writing techniques that draw on independent research. The course emphasizes intersections of disciplines, discourses, and rhetorics in order to inspire final essays that demonstrate cross-disciplinary awareness and innovation.