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Jan 28, 2025
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WTNG 305 - Writing the City
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102 and at least sophomore standing or consent of instructor
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
In this course, students analyze and write about the city - a complex, multilayered environment that includes densely textured landscapes, platforms for creativity and innovation, sites of systemic injustice and political struggle, as well as homes, haunts, houses of worship, etc. Built upon the metaphor of the city-as-text, the course prompts students to explore - physically, emotionally, intellectually, socially, and rhetorically - the discourse communities of the city; the situatedness of knowledge; concepts such as nostalgia and homesickness; the relationships between design, identity, and power; questions of displacement/dislocation, representation (e.g., map-making), tourism, and globalization; and the creation of publics and counter publics. Readings include sections such as Paula Mathieu’s Tactics of Hope, Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting,” and Michel de Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life; and students write reflective essays, local histories/ethnographies, and walking tours.
3 credits
Fall Alternate Years
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