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Fall 2021
Apr 16, 2024
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WRT 273W - Writing Identity
Course Description: A writing workshop that examines expression or exploration of identity. Through a variety of writing assignments, students will participate in the ongoing cross-cultural discussions about such identity issues race, class, and gender. The course will culminate in a final semester project in a creative genre. As part of this course, students will imitate, appropriate, parody, and/or adapt the texts under examination, as well as create a semester project in a creative genre. Typical model writers and artists might include Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sherman Alexie, and Salman Rushdie.

3.000 Credit hours
3.000 Lecture hours

Levels: Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Lecture

Creative & Professional Wrtng Department

Course Attributes:
Hum Gen Ed - Communications, Writing Intensive Tier 2 (W2), Writing Intensive (WI), Professional Writing Maj Crse, English Dept Writing Course

Textbook Information at the WCSU Bookstore

Restrictions:
May not be enrolled in one of the following Levels:     
      Graduate Non-Matric
      Non Credit
      CEU
      Graduate

Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level WRT 101 Minimum Grade of C or Undergraduate level WRT 101FY Minimum Grade of C or Undergraduate level WRT 101P Minimum Grade of C or Writing Placement Score 3 or English Placement 146

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