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2015-2016 HillBook (Class of 2019) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
Course Descriptions
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WRI 114 - Writing Nature: The Climate Change Controversy (First-Year Seminar) Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016
Climate change is as much an idea that can be studied through culture as it is a physical phenomenon that can be observed and quantified. Thus, rather than beginning with technological or scientific questions about how to solve climate change, this course will ask: why do we disagree about climate change?
Prerequisite(s): Open to First-Year Student only.
Fulfills the First-Year Seminar and the Cornerstone Natural Scientific Inquiry Requirements.
This course provides enhanced writing support.
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WRI 141 - Introduction to College Writing (First-Year Seminar) Four Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
This workshop-based course is designed for students who wish to practice and develop the essential skills of writing, critical reading, and textual analysis at the college level. Instructors provide extensive feedback on assignments, helping students to gain more confidence with grammar, sentence structure, and the writing process as a whole.
Prerequisite(s): Open to First-Year Students only.
Fulfills the First-Year Seminar Requirement.
This course provides enhanced writing support.
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WRI 142 - American Popular Culture (First-Year Seminar) Four Credits
Fall Semester
This seminar is an introduction to academic writing for English Language Learners. Addressing a variety of American popular culture themes students will learn how to analyze and interpret a wide variety of cultural texts while practicing college-level discussion, essay writing, critical reading, and textual analysis. This course will emphasize the writing process, academic argument, grammar, and mechanics. Students will receive extensive feedback on their writing from the instructor and from peers.
Fulfills the First-Year Seminar requirement.
This course provides enhanced writing support.
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WRI 147 - Poetry Lab on Metaphor Three Credits
Fall Semester
An examination of the nature of metaphor in language and the function of metaphor in creative writing, especially students’ own work. Analysis of the precise nature of the difference between metaphor and analogy, metaphor and sign, metaphor and symbol. Exploration of how poets – and writers in general – contextualize and materialize metaphor, focusing on metaphor as a vehicle of discovery in the work of Atwood, Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Garcia-Lorca.
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WRI 169 - Peer Tutoring Practices One Credit
Fall and Spring Semesters
This course focuses on effective tutoring strategies. Students engage with learning theory and group training activities that foster communication and problem solving skills. Observations of experienced teaching assistants and tutors coupled with reflective writing assignments link theory with practice. Fulfills an internationally recognized organization’s (CRLA) Level I Certification requirements.
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WRI 241 - The Art of the Essay (First-Year Seminar) Four Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters
In this workshop-based course students will sharpen their writing skills in a rigorous yet supportive workshop setting; explore the flexibility and versatility of the essay form in a variety of rhetorical contexts; and prepare a final portfolio of revised writing that demonstrates mastery of the essay form.
Prerequisite(s): Open to First-Year Students only.
Fulfills the First-Year Seminar Requirement.
This course provides enhanced writing support.
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WRI 246 - Reading and Writing Diverse Lives (First-Year Seminar) Four Credits
Fall Semesters
An exploration of the autobiographical essay as a form of cultural critique. A critical analysis of how writers use their life experiences to examine the challenges inherent in the cultural diversity of American democracy. In addition to reading and analyzing autobiographical essays, this course will serve as an introduction to the craft of life writing.
Prerequisite(s): Open to First-Year Students only.
Fulfills the First-Year Seminar Requirement.
This course provides enhanced writing support.
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WRI 261 - Violence and Peace in God’s Name Three Credits
Spring Semester
An inquiry into how religious texts can be exploited to cultivate war or nurture peace. Through the multiple lenses of literature, history, and theology, the course examines the Catholic philosophical concept of a “just war,” as it has been theorized from Aquinas and Augustine, and its influence on modern theologians and philosophers of war, pacifism, and socio-political justice.
Fulfills the Catholic Intellectual Traditions requirement.
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WRI 369 - Writing and Peer Tutoring Three Credits
Fall Semester
In this course, students will prepare to become peer tutors in the Writing Center. They will develop tutoring skills by analyzing theoretical and research articles from professional journals, by applying the theory and research results to their own writing in process and the writing of other students, and by observing and participating in the Writing Center one hour a week.
Prerequisite(s): Faculty recommendation or permission of the instructor.
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WRI 399 - Business and Technical Writing in the Digital Age Four Credits
Spring Semester
This course provides students with a practical foundation for professional writing and communication in business and technical fields, such as engineering, accounting, finance, government, and computer science and covers written, oral and electronic communication in a wide variety of genres: letters, memos, texts, PowerPoint presentations, speeches, posters, investigative journalism, collaborative reports, proposals, and social media. Frequent short assignment, labs, and a final project related to a chosen discipline are required.
Prerequisite(s): Must have fulfilled the First-Year Seminar Requirement.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines Requirement.
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WRI 401 - Writing-in-the-Disciplines Supplement One Credit
Fall Semesters
Through co-enrollment with a discipline-based course bearing at least 3 credits, the Writing-in-the-Disciplines (WID) Supplement course allows instructors to modify a non-WID course to fulfill the Cornerstone WID requirement. Each course modified with the WID Supplement requires a minimum of 20 pages of writing, for which students have the opportunity to revise with feedback from instructors and peers.
Prerequisite(s):
Writing Program Director approval required.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines requirement.
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WRI 441 - Topics in Rhetorical Criticism Four Credits
Spring Semester
This course will focus on enhancing students’ abilities to critically analyze and respond to public messages found in political speaking, public advocacy, popular culture, and visual and new media narratives that appear throughout the digital world. Students will learn and apply effective writing techniques throughout the term and explore both on-line and traditional prose styles.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the First-Year-Seminar requirement.
Fulfills the Writing-in-the-Disciplines requirement. (This is a particularly good option for students in American Studies, Catholic Studies, Cinema Studies, Creative Writing, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, and Journalism.)
May not receive credit for both WRI 441 and .
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