UCOR Section Descriptions

Course Description

Effective academic writing helps us understand and propose new ways of seeing ourselves and our world. In this writing intensive course, we'll learn to use rhetorical arguments and the revision process to explore how identity is made and sustained in art and in society. Writing about art can revise, expand on, and answer what identity can be. Together, we are going to explore, through readings and museum field trips and critical essays, how people talk about art and personal identity. We will uncover some of the important ways that artists, museums, schools, and, even, politicians use art to unmask, create, and interrogate identity.

Course Description

Our topic is work, with reflection, analysis and research on these questions: What meanings do we attach to different kinds of work? How does work affect identity? How does work shape the worker and the larger society? What is the context of the minimum-wage debate in Seattle? What are the conditions of work where the things we "consume" are made, and how do those conditions affect us as consumers?

Course Description

Effective academic writing helps us understand and propose new ways of seeing ourselves and our world. In this writing intensive course, we'll learn to use rhetorical arguments and the revision process to explore how identity is made and sustained in art and in society. Writing about art can revise, expand on, and answer what identity can be. Together, we are going to explore, through readings and museum field trips and critical essays, how people talk about art and personal identity. We will uncover some of the important ways that artists, museums, schools, and, even, politicians use art to unmask, create, and interrogate identity.

Course Description

Effective academic writing helps us understand and propose new ways of seeing ourselves and our world. In this writing intensive course, we'll learn to use rhetorical arguments and the revision process to explore how identity is made and sustained in art and in society. Writing about art can revise, expand on, and answer what identity can be. Together, we are going to explore, through readings and museum field trips and critical essays, how people talk about art and personal identity. We will uncover some of the important ways that artists, museums, schools, and, even, politicians use art to unmask, create, and interrogate identity.

Course Description

How does television shape our perceptions of everyday life? How does it encourage us to take on a passive role as consumers of culture? And what do popular shows--like Modern Family and The Walking Dead--tell us about the cultural zeitgeist and our contemporary moment? Rather than demonize or simply praise television as basic entertainment, this course draws on reflective, analytical, and exploratory writing to address these questions and our cultural obsession with television.

Course Description

How does television shape our perceptions of everyday life? How does it encourage us to take on a passive role as consumers of culture? And what do popular shows--like Modern Family and The Walking Dead--tell us about the cultural zeitgeist and our contemporary moment? Rather than demonize or simply praise television as basic entertainment, this course draws on reflective, analytical, and exploratory writing to address these questions and our cultural obsession with television.

Course Description

Our topic is work, with reflection, analysis and research on these questions: What meanings do we attach to different kinds of work? How does work affect identity? How does work shape the worker and the larger society? What is the context of the minimum-wage debate in Seattle? What are the conditions of work where the things we "consume" are made, and how do those conditions affect us as consumers?

Course Description

Our topic is work, with reflection, analysis and research on these questions: What meanings do we attach to different kinds of work? How does work affect identity? How does work shape the worker and the larger society? What is the context of the minimum-wage debate in Seattle? What are the conditions of work where the things we "consume" are made, and how do those conditions affect us as consumers?

Course Description

Effective academic writing helps us understand and propose new ways of seeing ourselves and our world. In this writing intensive course, we'll learn to use rhetorical arguments and the revision process to explore how identity is made and sustained in art and in society. Writing about art can revise, expand on, and answer what identity can be. Together, we are going to explore, through readings and museum field trips and critical essays, how people talk about art and personal identity. We will uncover some of the important ways that artists, museums, schools, and, even, politicians use art to unmask, create, and interrogate identity.

Course Description

This writing seminar helps students develop as college-level, academic writers. Students will engage, rhetorically, with the theme of class war in America to develop their abilities to participate in important academic discourses, understand and respond to the arguments of others, and develop and support their own positions. Through deep inquiry and revision, this seminar facilitates the habits of critical and creative questioning, thinking, and argumentation to help students become more proficient and skillful academic writers. Through two major writing projects, requiring the practice of extensive revision, students will be asked to draw their own conclusions and write for academic audiences about what it means to live in an economically equitable and just society. The first paper will focus on analyzing an act of class war, chosen by students. The second paper will focus on (virtually) any social justice issue important to the writer and will illustrate both what that writer has learned about the academic revision process and rhetorical argumentation.