Nov 14, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
CARS 3600 - Writing in Classics and Religious Studies
This course develops writing skills on topics related to Classics and Religious Studies. It teaches the techniques and mechanics of analytical writing appropriate for those majoring in humanities disciplines that focus on the close reading, analysis, and evaluation of primary texts. Students are guided through the steps of developing an argument, pursuing interdisciplinary research, supporting arguments with tested evidence, and writing in a stylistically effective and technically correct manner. They also learn to critique the writings of other students and professional scholars to develop their own skills.
Requisites: Foundations Written Communication (ENG 1510 or equivalent); major or minor or permission of instructor
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Foundations: Advanced Writing
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to develop original analytical arguments based on readings of primary and secondary texts, databases, material culture, and other sources of scholarship central to the subdisciplines of Classics and Religious Studies.
- Students will be able to develop their arguments through revision.
- Students will be able to support their arguments with tested evidence from sources used by Classics and Religious Studies.
- Students will be able to use proper techniques of formal writing.
- Students will be able to evaluate and critique student and professional writing.
- Students will be able to explain how writing is a recursive process that includes finding ideas, writing drafts, receiving feedback, and revising.
- Students will be able to explain the fundamentals of interdisciplinary research in Classics, Religious Studies, and their related subdisciplines.
- Students will be able to communicate ideas effectively using proper writing style, syntax, and mechanics set by current scholarship in Classics and Religious Studies.
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