Nov 13, 2024

Spring 2025 Semester Course/Registration Information: New ENGLISH Courses Offered

This is your daily update with important information about Spring 2025 courses and the semester registration process. These updates will continue until the end of current student registration on Wednesday, November 20, 2024. New ENGLISH Courses Offered

New ENGLISH Courses Offered

ENGLISH 3130 Writing & Healing | Section 01 | 1:00 MWF
- This section meets a course requirement for:
  - UNIFI Discover: Human Expression Learning Area | UNIFI Creative Expression and Meaning Certificate | Writing minor - Creative Writing option
  - This course has been approved as a one-time/this semester course substitute for the Civic Skills category in the UNIFI Civic Literacy, Engagement, and the Humanities certificate or the Civic Literacy, Engagement, and the Humanities minor.
    - An Academic Student Request will need to be submitted indicating ENGLISH 3130 as a substitute for ENGLISH 2015 Introduction to Writing Studies.
- Works by poets and essayists who've survived traumatic experiences and written about will be read and discussed. Literary techniques writers use to capture and transmit the powerful feelings that arise from trauma will be explored.
- Trauma literature is as much about survival and healing as it is about pain or loss. It bears witness, teaching coping skills, and provides companionship - it makes us feel less alone.
- Students will be invited (never required) to write about their own experiences. However a student need not be a trauma survivor to benefit from the course. Trauma is part of the human condition, and literature is a way to explore it - from a safe distance.
ENGLISH 1059 Let's Talk About: Food and Wellness | Section 02 | 11:00 TTH
- This section meets a course requirement for:
  - UNIFI Engage: Oral Communication Learning Area
- In this course, food and wellness will be examined from a rhetorical perspective - meaning the student will work to understand how food and wellness are concepts shaped by language, history and experience.
- Students will examine how historical and cultural context shapes the language we use to describe food and wellness, and will analyze texts to understand how language shapes our understanding of food and wellness.
- Oral communication, public speaking, and collaboration skills within the framework of food and wellness will be developed.