Class Detail
WRIT 2 - 14 Rhetoric and Inquiry
2024 Summer Quarter
Class Details
- Career
- Undergraduate
- Grading
- Student Option
- Class Number
- 70337
- Type
- Seminar
- Instruction Mode
- Asynchronous Online
- Credits
- 5 units
- General Education
- C
- Status
- Open
- Available Seats
- 23
- Enrollment Capacity
- 25
- Enrolled
- 2
- Wait List Capacity
- 999
- Wait List Total
- 0
OpenDescription
Provides declarative knowledge about writing, with a special focus on writing from research, composing in multiple genres, and transferring knowledge about writing to new contexts.
Enrollment Requirements
Prerequisite(s): WRIT 1, WRIT 1E, satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing Requirement, or course selection via Directed Self-Placement.
Class Notes
Enrollment is restricted to current UCSC students only.
This class requires a synchronous meeting one hour each week (day/time determined by student/faculty). Note: this is an online course, which means you will need a functional device(s) and stable internet access; the class will be primarily asynchronous, but requires your participation in weekly writing community appointments via Zoom.
Add deadline: June 28 at 5 p.m.
From the instructor - Theme: The Anti-Racist Academic Identity. The institutional racism in the United States? system of higher education is the legacy of a unique form of settler colonialism. For example, writing requirements for college are not isolated rules for specific generations. Rather, they are part of the long history of epistemological racism and the racist notion of ""Standard English"". This course presents the antiracist academic identity as a frame for engaging the emerging writing and research process for college writers to undermine the role of epistemological racism in higher education.
Two questions will structure the course: 1) What is antiracist about writing and research? 2) How may an antiracist academic identity support academic writing and research?
To begin to answer these questions, we will undertake a process driven through personal inquiry utilizing writing anchor concepts and research threshold concepts to investigate contemporary topics and issues; we will undertake intersectional and positional frames of critical inquiry while viewing genre as a rhetorically situated act that supports academic writing and research; finally, we will utilize the traditionally closed forms of historic and ethnographic academic writing to develop a digital short, or transmodal presentation of our writing and research.
This class requires a synchronous meeting one hour each week (day/time determined by student/faculty). Note: this is an online course, which means you will need a functional device(s) and stable internet access; the class will be primarily asynchronous, but requires your participation in weekly writing community appointments via Zoom.
Add deadline: June 28 at 5 p.m.
From the instructor - Theme: The Anti-Racist Academic Identity. The institutional racism in the United States? system of higher education is the legacy of a unique form of settler colonialism. For example, writing requirements for college are not isolated rules for specific generations. Rather, they are part of the long history of epistemological racism and the racist notion of ""Standard English"". This course presents the antiracist academic identity as a frame for engaging the emerging writing and research process for college writers to undermine the role of epistemological racism in higher education.
Two questions will structure the course: 1) What is antiracist about writing and research? 2) How may an antiracist academic identity support academic writing and research?
To begin to answer these questions, we will undertake a process driven through personal inquiry utilizing writing anchor concepts and research threshold concepts to investigate contemporary topics and issues; we will undertake intersectional and positional frames of critical inquiry while viewing genre as a rhetorically situated act that supports academic writing and research; finally, we will utilize the traditionally closed forms of historic and ethnographic academic writing to develop a digital short, or transmodal presentation of our writing and research.
Meeting Information
| Days & Times | Room | Instructor | Meeting Dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Navarro,J.M. | 06/24/24 - 08/30/24 |