Students will explore the 500-year history of the sonnet in English, from its origins in Renaissance love poetry to the present. Limited in space and bound by rules, sonnets paradoxically free writers to scale the heights of invention and expression. Students will receive a thorough grounding in sonnet forms and structures, and will read many great sonnets from the sixteenth through twentieth centuries by poets such as Shakespeare and Gwendolyn Brooks. We will also spend at least a third of the course on sonnets written since 2000, by Terrance Hayes, Danez Smith, and others. Students will write analytical essays including a research paper, and will also have the opportunity to write and revise their own sonnets.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

Notes:

Why does art matter? Because images, sculptures and buildings shape our ways of understanding our world and ourselves. Learning how to look closely and analyze what you see, therefore, is fundamental to a liberal arts education. Within a global frame, this course provides an introduction to art and its histories through a series of case studies, from Egypt's Queen Nefertiti to Jean-Michel Basquiat's Street Art. Meeting three times weekly, each section will draw on the case studies to explore concepts of gender and race, nature and landscape, culture and power, repatriation, and other issues. Assignments focus on developing analytical and expressive writing skills and will engage with the rich resources of Wellesley College and of Boston's art museums. The course fulfills both the Writing requirement and the ARTH 100 requirement for art history, architecture, and studio majors.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Distribution Requirements: ARS - Visual Arts, Music, Theater, Film and Video

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Spring; Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall; Spring

Notes: This course satisfies the First-Year Writing requirement and counts as a unit toward the major in Art History, Architecture, or Studio Art. Includes a third session each week.

Once upon a time, there were two brothers who never set out to become major influencers of Western culture, but did so anyway. When Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales in December 1812, they surely could not imagine that what began as a collection of tales ostensibly embodying German culture would, centuries later, be thought of as part of a common heritage underpinning the literature and language of Western society. In this course, we will read some of the seminal tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, as well as some of the literary tales that were inspired by – and also themselves inspired! – the folkloric versions. We will then consider how these early tales continue to shape cultural production today, examining, for example, how their form has influenced children’s literature as a genre. We’ll also trace how their narratives resurface in poetry and prose written by and for adults, as well as in television and film.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open only to First-Years.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Spring

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall; Spring

Notes: No letter grades given (fall); Mandatory Credit/Non-Credit (spring)

We are living in an age of unprecedented access to information and have the means for immediate communication, thanks to advances in technology. Connecting to this virtual, ceaselessly changing world, however, often means turning away from the physical realm and prioritizing immediate reaction over thoughtful reflection. In this interdisciplinary course, we will investigate the boundless opportunities, and the real challenges, of living and writing in the age of distraction. How do we understand one another and ourselves as we toggle between the virtual and physical worlds? How do we create meaningful ideas and united communities? How does the reading and writing we do in the classroom inform what we read and write on social media, and vice versa? Students will consider these questions as they study literature, art, psychology, and technology, and as they explore both virtual spaces and physical ones, including the Wellesley campus and other area locales.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 12

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

Notes: This course will provide students extra academic support as they make the transition to writing at the college level. It is appropriate for students who did not do much academic writing in English in high school, or who lack confidence in their writing. No letter grades given.

Emma Goldman (1869-1940) and Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) were Jewish women who were wildly famous in their lifetimes for their political and cultural radicalism. Goldman promoted anarchism at a time when anarchists engaged in militant political action, and Stein wrote innovative poems that influenced the course of writing in English. Both created unique, powerful forms of writing to deliver their complex and often controversial ideas. They used these unconventional forms to challenge readers to think and act differently. In this class, we will explore these challenging texts and the innovative ways of thought and action that they offer. From our own moment of extraordinary instability and cultural transformation, we will consider the models Goldman and Stein offer us for engaging the world and changing it with the writing we do.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Every other year; Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

Notes: This course satisfies the First-Year Writing requirement and counts as a unit towards a major in Jewish Studies. Includes a third session each week. No letter grades given.

Wellesley's mission is to educate those "who will make a difference in the world." In this course, we will study some of the change-makers associated with Wellesley and we'll learn about the College's role in shaping American higher education, promoting student wellness, advancing gender equality, influencing global politics, and improving public health. We will also examine the world that is Wellesley, with special emphasis on its historic buildings and unique landscape. Students will gain a deep understanding of Wellesley's story and their place in it, and they will practice making a difference in the world through their own writing.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 12

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: This course will provide students extra academic support as they make the transition to writing at the college level. It is appropriate for students who did not do much academic writing in English in high school, or who lack confidence in their writing. Mandatory Credit/Non Credit.

How have writers and artists in the U.S. used the power of words, images, and sound to promote social change? We will explore this question by examining an array of texts within their specific cultural contexts,  including abolitionist narratives, intersectional feminist theory, and contemporary art from the Davis Museum. Students will analyze the rhetorical strategies of these works of protest literature, assessing their influence on laws, social practices, and cultural values. Students will also practice protest as they write for the change they want to see in the world today.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 12

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

As college in the US becomes increasingly expensive and competitive, it’s worth asking what role institutions of higher education play in our society. Do they promote equity and equality? Do they transform or preserve the status quo? Do we prioritize their value as a private or as a public good, that is, as something that benefits the individual, or as something that the public invests in for some broader social goal? Students will read and write about the work of political theorists and educators in order to consider what the political and social mission of the university should be. We will also investigate the business of higher education, examining what happens when a college’s financial considerations might conflict with its educational mission. Other topics we’ll explore include the public financing of college, student debt, practices of for-profit universities, and the size of college endowments.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 12

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

This course examines how different communities commemorate racial conflict in U.S. history, and how these historical memories operate as instruments of political power in the present. How do the stories we tell about the past impact policy decisions, social values, and collective identity? How do historical narratives support those in power, and are these narratives countered and contested? To explore these questions, students will examine a range of texts and cultural artifacts, including monuments, museum exhibits, landscapes, images, stories, and digital media. Students will build skills in analytical writing and scholarly research as they investigate the complex interplay between past and present.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Spring

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: Mandatory Credit/Non Credit.

"Boy meets girl" has long been a classic starting point, in both literature and the movies. This course will focus on romantic comedy in American cinema, with significant looks backward to its literary sources. We will view films from the classic era of Hollywood (It Happened One Night, The Awful Truth), the revisionist comedies of the 1970s and beyond (Annie Hall, My Best Friend's Wedding), and recent romantic comedies that extend our sense of the possibilities of the genre (Appropriate Behavior, Medicine for Melancholy). We will also read one or two Shakespeare plays, and a Jane Austen novel, to deepen our understanding of the literary precedents that inform romantic comedy onscreen.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

Notes: No letter grades given.

Ancient Rome developed from a tiny town in central Italy to an enormous empire that stretched from Britain around the entire Mediterranean Sea. Its legal system developed in tandem, from the Law of the Twelve Tables in 451-450 BCE to the monumental Digest of Justinian almost 1,000 years later, eventually becoming the foundation for modern European law and the law of many countries in the Americas. We'll examine both particular laws and legal process (for example, what laws regulated contracts? what were the Roman laws on marriage and divorce? how did lawsuits work?) and how those laws worked in society (why was it illegal to give your spouse a gift? how and why did the first Roman emperor, Augustus, intervene with his laws on marriage and morality in what had been considered family matters? what legal strategies could you use to win your case in court?).

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites:

From ancient times to the present day, people have used art to bring order to the natural world. In this class, we will study gardens near and far, from ancient Pompeii to the Getty Villa in Malibu, from Buddhist gardens in Japan to African-American gardens in the rural South. In addition, we will study key moments in landscape art, such as the Song Dynasty in China, the Renaissance in Italy, and Impressionism in France. Throughout our class, you will engage with the rich resources of Wellesley College and of Boston's art museums. You'll also get hands-on experience in late spring, when we will return to the campus pollinator garden that was designed and planted by students in this class in 2023. We will work together to make it an even more inviting place for people, butterflies, and bees. 

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes:

“Disability is a political issue, not a personal one,” writes disability activist Sunaura Taylor. That is, the problem of how to secure accommodations for disabled people in an abled world cannot be solved at the level of the individual; it must be addressed collectively. This course offers an introduction to the topic of disability justice and the question of what it looks like for a society to center, rather than marginalize, the forms of care required for people with disabilities to participate, survive, and flourish. We’ll start by thinking about definitions of ‘disability’ and frameworks for articulating principles of disability justice, including the need for an intersectional approach. Next we’ll analyze how capitalism tends to thwart the project of disability justice – how its emphasis on productive labor can reinforce ableist frameworks, devalue non-productive lives and forms of dependency, and create precarity for those unable to become self-sufficient through waged work. Last, we’ll look at how disabled people and allies have built up networks of care to meet their needs in the face of systemic neglect. We’ll also ask what it means to build communities that move away from the ideals of self-sufficiency toward those of mutual aid, care, and interdependence – ideals, as Taylor puts it, that are “worthy of the impaired and able-bodied alike.”

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 16

Prerequisites:

This course will examine how the rapid-fire pace of technology is changing the way we see ourselves, the way we present ourselves to the world, and our fundamental understanding of our relation to the world around us. Through the use of social media platforms like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Vine, Pinterest, Yik Yak, Tinder, Hinge, Instagram, and Tumblr, to name just a few, we are all constantly forming and reforming our identities, thereby changing the nature of human experience. By altering the course of our lives, we are reformulating the age-old questions: How do we discover who we are? How do we show the world who we are? We will read a series of books, traditional and untraditional, by discovered and undiscovered authors, to analyze the way this seismic shift is being documented and portrayed in fiction and non-fiction.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: Ann E. Maurer '51 Speaking Intensive Course. Mandatory Credit/Non Credit.

What does it mean to have good or bad taste in literature, music, fashion? People sometimes say they enjoy books they think are “bad” (like the Twilight series) and don't enjoy books they consider great (Moby-Dick or Paradise Lost). How is that possible? Is your own taste something unique about you, or does it reflect your social class, your education, age, or gender, ethnic or regional background? We'll read philosophers, sociologists, critics, and other writers to help us answer such questions. Throughout we'll consider what role taste may play in improving our writing. Can a qualitative, non-rule-bound form of judgment like taste help guide our intellectual lives and academic work? Or is taste too arbitrary and subjective to be intellectually useful?

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open only to first-year students.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes:

After World War I, Europe was a morass of political violence, economic instability, and social malaise. It was also the site of groundbreaking innovations in art, literature, architecture, and film. As fascism cast its shadow across the continent, many radical intellectuals from Germany, Austria, and elsewhere fled to Los Angeles, California. This capital of sunshine, success, and superficiality was profoundly unlike the worlds that these socialist and liberal artists and thinkers left behind. Yet, the bubbly culture of Tinseltown provided both a foundation and a foil for their creative work, much of which has had long-lasting influence on American culture. Interdisciplinary and historical, the course encourages students to put themselves in dialogue with the urgent stakes of a cultural exchange still very much relevant to our own time.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Spring

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: Mandatory Credit/Non-Credit

Fascinating cultural practices are found not only in far-off places but are also embedded in the stories of our everyday lives. From our families and friends to taxi drivers and grocery clerks, everyone's personal history has something to teach us. Written accounts of culture (called ethnographies) are created from these narratives of how people live their lives. What extraordinary stories of culture are hidden in local, everyday places? What does it mean to write someone else's story? Or our own? What can we learn about culture by translating oral histories into words? With the understanding that some of the most interesting stories about human culture are told in our own backyards, we will approach writing through ethnographic storytelling, using our life experiences as our subject.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: Ann E. Maurer '51 Speaking Intensive Course. Wendy Judge Paulson '69 Ecology of Place Living Laboratory course. This course does not satisfy the Natural and Physical Sciences Laboratory requirement. Mandatory Credit/Non Credit.

Have you ever wondered why some places evoke strong emotions, or why particular locations are charged with powerful meaning? Through the lenses of cultural geography and anthropology, this course explores the complex relationship between human beings, their emotions, and their environment. Key questions include: How can feelings for the places from our past and present be written into words? What are the qualities of a place that evoke certain emotions and memories? How do our memories of places change over time? What effect do collective memories have on individual remembrances? By reading memoirs, cultural histories, and critical essays, students learn how space and place can be translated into texts. Students will create their own written geographies of memory and analyze popular conceptions of space and place.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

Notes: No letter grades given.

We’ve all seen that moment: A parent asks their teenager a question about dating, stress, or that party last weekend, and the air leaves the room. The teen’s heart races, they mumble something, and change the subject immediately. Why can certain topics like sex, mental health, or social media be so challenging to discuss with the people who raised us? And what ways are there to have these conversations without the cringe, the shame, the eyerolls, or the shouting? In this course, we look at research in psychology and education to show what makes these conversations so difficult. We also study programs designed to guide parents and teens as they talk about the "hard stuff.” We explore communication strategies based on evidence of what works and what does not, learning what tools can help families move from avoidance to constructive dialogue.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 16

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

Notes: No letter grades given.

“Free time is shackled to its opposite,” writes the critic Theodor Adorno. In a world full of incessant demands for productivity, our free time, he observed, never feels truly free. We’re always watching the clock, trying to get the most out of our workday and then using our down time to ready ourselves to work again. We may be managing our time, but we don’t really own it. This course asks: what does it mean to live your life ‘on the clock’, and what might it look like to get ‘off’ of it? What would make your time feel like it is genuinely your own? We’ll seek answers to these questions first by exploring the issue of time management, reading theories about how to do it as well as histories and critiques of the impulse to maximize your time. Next, we’ll take up political and theoretical perspectives on how capitalism shapes our relationship to time. We’ll discuss where we get the idea that time is money and something we can spend or save. We’ll also consider what it means that our time is something we can sell and that someone else can own, and we’ll ask what the stakes are of commodifying time that way. Last, we’ll examine the idea and practice of leisure and explore what it takes for free time to be truly free.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Spring

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: Mandatory Credit/Non Credit.

“The personal is political” is a feminist rallying cry. It affirms, among other things, that we act and write out of our subjectivity, and that identity and politics are inseparable. In this course, we will explore our own relationships to sociopolitical matters such as reproductive rights, immigration and migration, prison abolition, environmental justice, and citizenship. We will also investigate the power structures that influence these areas and that make them resistant to meaningful change. Using This Bridge Called My Back: Writings from Radical Women of Color as our inspiration and guide, we will develop the critical thinking and writing skills needed to transform sociopolitical systems and to assert the value of our lives in them.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

Notes: Mandatory Credit/Non Credit.

In this course, we will examine Black feminist essays and speculative fiction as resources for thinking about the future of feminism and its impact on the broader culture. These texts are helping to shift paradigms of what is understood by the term “feminism”. They also contain critical information that students need not just to survive but thrive in the future. We will discuss how these works offer new ways to think about kinship, gender, reproductive rights, abolition, and representations of selfhood. In addition, they will provide a springboard for looking inward to our own lives and perspectives, as we explore how writing, reading, and action are influenced by the personal. Indeed, if the “personal is political,” as Audre Lorde aptly stated, then what we write from our own experience can shape and change our world.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: None. Open to First-Years only.

Degree Requirements: WFY - First Year Writing

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall; Spring

Notes: No Letter Grades Given (Fall); Mandatory Credit/Non Credit (Spring)

Who gets to rule, and why? What separates a king from a tyrant? Can monarchy or dictatorship coexist with popular institutions? Focused primarily on the ancient civilizations in and around the Mediterranean (especially Greece and Rome, with forays into Egypt, Persia, and their neighbors), this course examines rulers and the societies that produced them to ask how the “right to rule” was constructed, represented, and transmitted. We will meet kings, tyrants, pharaohs, satraps, emperors, and more. For each, we’ll consider by what right they claimed authority, how they communicated that claim, and how it was received and contested. We will also glance beyond antiquity to later claims on monarchic or autocratic power as points of comparison.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 16

Prerequisites:

This course will help students become more confident and proficient in the writing that they do at Wellesley and beyond. Students will design an individualized syllabus around a topic of interest to them and focus on the areas of writing in which they most want to improve. Building on what they learned in their 100-level WRIT course, students will become more adept at working with sources, developing their thinking, and communicating their ideas clearly and purposefully. There will be two class meetings per week. In one, all students will meet as a group with the professor, engaging in writing workshops and discussing some short common readings. In the second meeting, students will meet individually with a TA to discuss readings on their own topic and to work on their writing.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 12

Prerequisites: Fulfillment of the First-Year Writing requirement.

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Typical Periods Offered: Fall and Spring

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall; Spring

Notes: Mandatory Credit/Non Credit

“Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing,” writes Jenny Odell in How To Do Nothing. Everything vies for our time and attention: school work, waged work, care work, extracurriculars, keeping up with the news, Tiktok trends, doomscrolling. How could we possibly do nothing when there’s always something? And do we even want to get off the busy tread mill – or know how? This course asks what it means to cultivate the art of ‘doing nothing’ at a time when it feels like there’s so much to do. Thinking with classic and contemporary texts, we’ll investigate the capitalist imperative to be productive and keep busy, and we’ll imagine what it might look like to resist its demands and pursue more nourishing ways of passing our time. We’ll also experiment with the idea that writing could be a gateway into such experiences. We’ll try out different modes of writing (letter writing, journaling, interviews, and personal essays) that avoid ‘just trying to get it done’ and instead savor the time spent doing it. This course is meant to give students the freedom and time in their writing to step outside anxieties about “productivity” and focus instead on seeking meaning and joy while they write.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 18

Prerequisites: Fulfillment of First-Year Writing Requirement.

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Typical Periods Offered: Summer

Notes:

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Prerequisites: Open to qualified students who have fulfilled the First-Year Writing requirement. Permission of the instructor and the director of the Writing Program required.

Typical Periods Offered: Spring; Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall; Spring

Notes:

Units: 0.5

Max Enrollment: 30

Prerequisites: Open to qualified students who have fulfilled the First-Year Writing requirement. Permission of the instructor and the director of the Writing Program required.

Typical Periods Offered: Spring; Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall; Spring

Notes:

Do you like to "people watch"? Do you wish you could translate your real-world experiences and observations into narratives that are readable and relatable, and also intellectually rigorous? If so, you probably have an ethnographic writer hiding somewhere inside you, and this class will give them the opportunity to emerge. Ethnography, a "written document of culture," has long been a key component of a cultural anthropologist’s tool-kit, and scholars in other fields have recently begun to take up this practice. We will read classic and contemporary ethnographies to better understand the theoretical and practical significance of these texts, and students will have the opportunity to produce their own original ethnographic accounts. Although this course will emphasize an anthropological method, it is appropriate for students from various disciplines who are looking to expand their research skills and develop new ways to engage in scholarly writing about people, places and things.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 14

Crosslisted Courses: ANTH 277

Prerequisites: Fulfillment of the First-Year Writing requirement. Not open to First-Year students.

Distribution Requirements: SBA - Social and Behavioral Analysis

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Not Offered

Notes:

This course supports senior McNair Program Scholars as they prepare to apply to graduate schools and post-baccalaureate programs. Students will become more confident, effective writers as they produce drafts of personal statements, fellowship applications, and other scholarly materials. Students will practice communicating their scientific knowledge to different audiences, and they’ll experience the benefits of being part of a community of scholars. Open only to seniors participating in the McNair Scholars Program. 

Units: 0.5

Max Enrollment: 18

Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor required. Fulfillment of the First-Year Writing requirement. Open only to Seniors enrolled in the McNair Scholars Program.

Typical Periods Offered: Fall

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Fall

Notes:

A healthy democracy requires a citizenry that knows its own history. Historical narratives can be constructed to legitimate policies that serve the rich and powerful, or they can expand rights and belonging through a clear-eyed reckoning with the past. But how do ordinary citizens learn about the past? How can public historians create new narratives that are accurate, nuanced, open-ended, and accessible? In this course students will build on their study of U.S. history, society, and culture to bring the past alive for a public audience. Throughout the semester, students will practice public history through assignments such as Op-Eds, museum exhibit reviews, podcasts, and guides to historical sites. In writing “history for the people,” students will deepen public understanding of the past to build a more democratic future.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 12

Prerequisites: Open to Juniors and Seniors only.

Distribution Requirements: HS - Historical Studies

Other Categories: CSPW - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Every other year

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Not Offered

Notes:

Margaret Atwood professes that, “A word after a word after a word is power.” Propelled by the #MeToo movement, LeanIn, and the women’s march, women are baring their truths, beliefs, and experiences in an explosion of public words. In this seminar students will become immersed in the dynamic contemporary landscape of women’s writing, spanning memoir, poetry, journalism, and political commentary. Within an intimate workshop setting, students will develop their own voices through assignments that will include book reviews, op-eds, social media analyses, and interviews. By taking turns as writers and editors, students will become skilled in evaluating and fostering their own writing as well as the writing of others. This course takes as its premise the intensive Calderwood format of having students regularly produce, critique, and revise their and their peers' writing by alternating being writers and editors throughout the semester.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 12

Prerequisites: This course is open only to juniors and seniors; all students must have taken at least one 200-level course in the study of literature.

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Other Categories: CSPW - Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing

Typical Periods Offered: Spring

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Not Offered

Notes: