FYW 1110 - Critical Reading and Composition

Goals: Develop critical reading skills for analyzing the cultural, social, political, and historical contexts of texts to understand how one is shaped by language and shapes the world through language. Use writing to explore varied perspectives and complexities in texts, issues, and writing tasks.

Content: Critically reading a variety of multimodal texts and situating them within their larger contexts and one another. Brainstorming, composing, and revising in a variety of genres, with particular attention to entering conversations with rhetorical awareness.

Taught: Fall and spring

Credits: 4