- Winter 2020
Syllabus Description:
Download the full syllabus by clicking HERE.
Class google doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C-_1t-SlBPZJCu-BtqO-IWObobh98z6cUaz0iX9I34U/edit
drop-in hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 10.30-11.20 am in Padelford B-10.
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND AIMS
This Interdisciplinary Writing in the Natural Sciences course is linked with Environment 100.
Although the two courses complement each other, they differ in goals, assignments, and grading methods. Our class has two aims:
1. To help you write effectively in the genres assigned to you in Environment 100.
2. To help you develop critical thinking skills to analyze representations of the environment, engage in conversations about environmental issues, and discuss the history of environmentalism --with a focus on lifting up the role of BIPOC communities.
Throughout the quarter, we will frequently discuss the genres of writing and presentation you are assigned in Environment 100. We will identify the rhetorical conventions that govern those genres and workshop the writing you produce for Environment 100. At the same time, drawing upon a wide range of texts, we will analyze the various ways that environmental issues are represented, debated, and construed historically. We will pay particular attention to how environmental discourse does or does not consider how Black, Indigenous, and communities of Color are affected or have agency. In this class, you will develop the skills necessary to critically think through and participate in a wide range of discourses on the environment.