Writing Program

Course Offerings Fall 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
WRPG 101-01	U.S. Rsch Writing for Intl Stu Instructor: Lisa Wolff Course Description: Reinforcing and extending skills taught in First-Year Seminar, this course explains American academic discourse to international students by examining the forms, conventions, and expectations of American academic writing. Students will practice the research and writing processes, analyze the choices American writers make in organization and argument, and improve their word choice and sentence structure. One-half credit. Offered every year.	0930:TR ALTHSE 207
WRPG 101-02	U.S. Rsch Writing for Intl Stu Instructor: Lisa Wolff Course Description: Reinforcing and extending skills taught in First-Year Seminar, this course explains American academic discourse to international students by examining the forms, conventions, and expectations of American academic writing. Students will practice the research and writing processes, analyze the choices American writers make in organization and argument, and improve their word choice and sentence structure. One-half credit. Offered every year.	:
WRPG 211-01	Writing and Wellness Instructor: Noreen Lape Course Description: Cross-listed with ENGL 212-01. This course uses a variety of disciplinary lenses to examine the link between writing and physical, emotional, social, and intellectual wellness. Starting with the work of research psychologist James Pennebaker in the 1980s, a multitude of studies have since shown the connection between expressive writing and wellness. Through the lens of social science, we will read Pennebaker's seminal research as well as articles by researchers who have further developed the writing and wellness connection. Through the lens of humanities, we will read autobiography in which authors self-consciously use writing to heal and fiction that represents writing as a healing practice. Theory will lead to practice as you deepen your investigations through service-learning and writing-intensive activities. Working with new groups of Dickinson students, you will learn to facilitate expressive writing groups in which students write and talk about the transition to college in order to assist them in achieving social and intellectual wellness. At the same time, you will learn journaling as a method of examining the connection between writing and wellness in your own lives. And you will write academic essays that explore writing and healing as manifested in the primary, secondary, and experiential sources you encounter in the course.	1330:TF ALTHSE 07
WRPG 211-02	Writing About the Horror Film Instructor: Noreen Lape, Gregory Steirer Course Description: Cross-listed with ENGL 212-02 and FLST 210-03. Horror films, though perennially popular with young adult audiences, have rarely been considered works of cinematic art. Why is this? And how might we as critics and scholars approach these films so as to better appreciate their aesthetic dimensions? In this class, we will attempt to answer these questions by examining horror films through the lenses of genre theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. Through a variety of formal and informal writing assignments about the horror film, students will also hone their expository and analytical writing skills.	1130:MWF EASTC 406
WRPG 211-03	Writing in & for Digital Env. Instructor: Sarah Kersh, Noreen Lape Course Description: Cross-listed with ENGL 212-03. In this course, students will think about the stakes of writing in a range of digital environmentsblogs, online forums, personal collections (pinterest, tumblr, twitter, facebook, etc), as well as the politics and history of publishing, copyright, and the public domain. In addition, students will examine archives and the responsibility of holdings within a library or other institution. Finally, students will learn the technical skills to create a class website as they consider writing across different environments.	0900:TR EASTC 406
WRPG 211-04	Topics in Expository Writing Instructor: Noreen Lape, ENGL STAFF Course Description: Cross-listed with ENGL 212-04.	0830:MWF EASTC 312