Writing Courses at the Center for Teaching and Learning
A consistent feature of an Antioch education is the role writing plays within academic study. Rather than tests and exams, Antioch students use writing to illustrate their complex understanding of new concepts. In this way, writing becomes more than words on a page—writing becomes a "way of knowing," a representation of the critical reflection engaged in learning. At Antioch University Seattle, we have developed course offerings in writing to support the writing growth and success of AUS students.
Course Descriptions
WRTG 400/600: Writing Strategies Seminar (1)
The Writing Tutorial offers Antioch students a small group tutorial experience that supports the students’ writing in their particular academic program. Through structured, weekly meetings with a faculty member, students process their writing: from generating ideas to composing, proofreading, and revising.
WRTG 401/601: Digital Storytelling (3/4)
This writing seminar offers a small group community focused on the creation of digital stories that may complement efforts in an academic program. In this way, the digital story becomes another medium for academic inquiry. Through structured, biweekly meetings with a faculty facilitator, students engage in all aspects of the process and production of a digital story.
WRTG 404/604: The Writing Process (3)
Introduces students to the generative and recursive nature of reading and writing. Through critical reading and writing, students develop their writing and thinking skills. A critical understanding of the writing process develops as students learn to generate ideas, compose, proofread and revise for focus, support, organization and conventions.
WRTG 405/605: Writing in Academic Contexts (3)
Offers students a critical exploration of reading and writing intrinsic to the university. Students compose a variety of genres, from personal narratives to more formal, academic writing incorporating outside research. The writing workshop approach includes tutorials supporting the writing process, peer editing, and successful revising and proofreading techniques.
WRTG 406/606: Inquiry and Research (3)
Emphasizes that writing and inquiry are both cognitive processes. Student-writers develop their critical, active reading and thinking skills, technical and library skills, and approaches to integrating primary and secondary sources. They also explore a personal stance in relation to the material studied.
WRTG 407/607: Technical and Professional Writing (3)
Technical and Professional Writing examines the forms of writing required in professional, administrative and research contexts: from memos to grants and proposals, research writing and technical reports. This course includes more than mastering these forms of writing; particular emphasis is placed on understanding the rhetorical contexts for writing (subject, audience, ethics, context, and purpose).
WRTG 408/608: Books by Hand (3)
Provides students with models of the ancient craft of bookbinding while engaging in the writing of poetry and prose. The class will be approached as an “arts and crafts” workshop in which students develop a piece of polished writing and learn techniques of creating beautiful books.
WRTG 415/615: The Personal Essay (3)
Students engage in an examination of the essay as a genre while exploring their own narrative voices. This workshop-style course draws from coming-of-age experiences and life transitions for material. The course includes reading, weekly freewrites, shorter written assignments, and one complete personal essay.
WRTG 416/616: Media Writing (3)
This course engages students in critical understanding and deconstruction of the “rhetoric” involved in electronic media to define and explore the essentials for writing within modern media. From blogs to PSAs, across radio, print, and the web, writers practice composition for and study the patterns of consumption for each medium. Students compose an array of texts designed for on-line communication and learn techniques to get their work noticed.
WRTG 490/690: Special Topics in Writing (3)
Offers students a concentrated examination of a topic that reflects current issues related to writing and society. Some topics that might be explored are: Eco-writing, Writing Self as Story, Writing for Personal Growth, and Writing Supernatural Literature.
WRTG 610: Project Writing (1)
Explores the complexities involved in researching, composing, revising and formatting the proposal, project paper, thesis or dissertation. Graduate students engage in careful examination of rhetorical strategies involved in researching and writing their terminal paper for a degree in their content area.
WRTG 611: Writing for Psychology (3)
This course offers MA Psychology students a comprehensive experience in writing from and about research for the psychological discourse community. The class emphasizes critical reading & thinking, the development of technical & library skills as well as the integration of primary & secondary sources in graduate-level writing. Students will gain experience in composing in multiple genres requiring formal research.
WRTG 706: Writing for Psy.D. (3)
Emphasizes that writing and inquiry are both cognitive processes. Student-writers develop their understanding of the psychological discourse community through critical, active reading, researching and writing, and integration of primary and secondary sources. They also explore a personal stance in relation to the material studied.
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