Description About this Course
“If you don’t know where you are,” Wendell Berry claims, “you don’t know who you are.” Scholars like Yi-Fu Tuan, Doreen Massey, and David Harvey argue that our surroundings – both past and present – fundamentally influence the self. But how, actually, do space and place, home and abroad, here and there collide to shape our identities?
In this section of ENG 221, students will explore the concept of place and how place shapes us while practicing advanced writing and communication skills. This class will ask students to engage with a variety of texts that consider place and the self, but the course will also encourage students to draw on their own experiences of different places and to reflect on the impact these experiences have had on them.
ENG 221 is an advanced writing and communication course designed specifically to support students for whom English is an additional language. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on recognizing, evaluating, and deploying rhetorical principles and techniques as well as on demonstrating mastery of critical analysis, of conducting primary and secondary research, exposition, and argumentation on selected themes and issues by completing practical exercises both in class and outside of it.
The central goal of ENG 221 is to help you become stronger, more dynamic researchers and communicators across multiple modes as you consider and practice advanced writing and communication skills. You can expect to conduct original research while completing assignments both individually and in groups. These assignments and activities will continue to hone your skills in writing, speaking, listening, and observing. Over the course of the semester, you will familiarize yourself with and participate in the ongoing conversations surrounding the central topic of your section, and you should expect to complete projects that engage in and contribute to ongoing professional and academic discourse.
In this section of ENG 221, students will explore the concept of place and how place shapes us while practicing advanced writing and communication skills. This class will ask students to engage with a variety of texts that consider place and the self, but the course will also encourage students to draw on their own experiences of different places and to reflect on the impact these experiences have had on them.
ENG 221 is an advanced writing and communication course designed specifically to support students for whom English is an additional language. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on recognizing, evaluating, and deploying rhetorical principles and techniques as well as on demonstrating mastery of critical analysis, of conducting primary and secondary research, exposition, and argumentation on selected themes and issues by completing practical exercises both in class and outside of it.
The central goal of ENG 221 is to help you become stronger, more dynamic researchers and communicators across multiple modes as you consider and practice advanced writing and communication skills. You can expect to conduct original research while completing assignments both individually and in groups. These assignments and activities will continue to hone your skills in writing, speaking, listening, and observing. Over the course of the semester, you will familiarize yourself with and participate in the ongoing conversations surrounding the central topic of your section, and you should expect to complete projects that engage in and contribute to ongoing professional and academic discourse.