Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
ENG 3850 - Writing About Culture and Society
How does writing work to create and shape cultures? How do cultures represent and preserve themselves through writing and other composing practices? In this course on the rhetorics of marginalized cultures, students read, analyze, and write about the cultures and rhetorical practices of marginalized groups with a focus on the culture of one or more groups historically underrepresented or misrepresented in popular and academic cultures. Writing assignments comprise the majority of the grade in this dedicated writing course.
Requisites: (ENG 1510 or ENG 1610) and (Soph or Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Diversity and Practice
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
- Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
- Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to write about them in ways that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
- Students will be able to use writing to analyze ways that cultures persuade, both within the culture and to outsiders, based on particular historical or social relationships.
- Students will be able to analyze a variety of text types (e.g. print, digital, audio and other cultural artifacts) and genres for audience, purpose, and context.
- Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others¿ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
- Students will be able to use formal and informal writing to articulate insights about their own cultural insights and biases.
- Students will be able to identify and write persuasively about how at least one culture uses rhetoric to engage in cultural preservation.
- Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions with culturally different others.
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