0502-449 - Worlds of Writing

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Rochester Institute of Technology

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Description:

This course offers a diverse range of written assignments, including personal narrative, research and analysis, oral histories, documentary studies, and literary interpretation. Accompanying the written assignments are selected readings on the life adventures of a famous physicist, investigations into significant historical events, documentaries, photography, oral histories, holocaust survivor memoirs in comic book form, short stories, and poems. The course focuses on the social context of language, on issues of representation, and how language shapes our understanding of reality. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor and the science writing minor. May also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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