WRIT1401

WRIT 1401 - University Writing - Community Engaged Learning (4 Cr.) Service-Learning

Writing Studies Department (10994) TCLA - College of Liberal Arts

WRIT 1401 - University Writing - Community Engaged Learning (4 Cr.) Service-Learning

Course description

Students in WRIT 1401 work with a local community organization as they explore writing processes and practices and rhetorical principles that provide a framework for successful written communication in college and beyond. Students analyze how writing works in varying contexts/genres and how it presents complex arguments with an emphasis on exploring ways that writing works to support change in communities and promote social justice. Students use and expand their writing process and revision to develop writing form/style and rhetorical content that contributes to conversations and provides new insight. Students develop information literacy and hone the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively and ethically incorporate information into their own texts. The blended course modality combines two credit hours/week of small face-to-face class with two credit hours of online instruction in Canvas, in addition to weekly homework assignments. An additional 2 lab hours/week provide a common time and place reserved for work on and with our community partners. These are considered homework hours. WRIT 1401 fulfills the first-year writing requirement.

Minimum credits

4

Maximum credits

4

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

A-F - A-F Grade Basis

Discussion

Lecture

Requirements

000579

Credit will not be granted if credit has been received for:

00120

Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?

No

Typically offered term(s)

Every Fall & Spring