Course Description
Sac State Catalog Description:
Intensive, semester-long course to help students use reading, writing, discussion, and research for discovery, intellectual curiosity, and personal academic growth—students will work in collaborative groups to share, critique, and revise their reading and writing. Students will engage in reading and writing as communal and diverse processes; read and write effectively in and beyond the university; develop a metacognitive understanding of their reading, writing, and thinking processes; and understand that everyone develops and uses multiple discourses.
Intensive, semester-long course to help students use reading, writing, discussion, and research for discovery, intellectual curiosity, and personal academic growth—students will work in collaborative groups to share, critique, and revise their reading and writing. Students will engage in reading and writing as communal and diverse processes; read and write effectively in and beyond the university; develop a metacognitive understanding of their reading, writing, and thinking processes; and understand that everyone develops and uses multiple discourses.
Instructor's Course Description:
This class will help build your critical reading and writing strategies and you will learn how to compose multimodal texts for multiple purposes. I plan on raising your consciousness about genre and discourse communities and the rhetorical choices that constitute a community of practice to prepare you for academic and professional reading and writing.
In sum, you will evaluate the strategic rhetorical choices and power relations of specific texts, images, art, geographic spaces, music, and social institutions to raise your consciousness of discourse and power in society to unravel meaning beyond a text and you will showcase your understanding of our learning goals in your Google Sites E-portfolio.
Textbook
Great news! This is a Zero Textbook Cost course. That means all the resources used for this course are free for you to access. For the most part, all readings will be provided for you on Canvas and I will include additional learning resources (often videos).
Technology Requirements?
Since you are enrolled in an online course, you will need reliable access to a computer and the internet. Trying to get through all of the digital content and assignments on your phone will be extremely difficult. Please plan on using a laptop, Chromebook, desktop computer, or at minimum, a tablet for your coursework. If you do not have a computer please let me know: I can connect you with services that may be able to provide you with one.
You are required to have a webcam or a microphone for this course. If you attend zoom office hours and don't have a webcam or mic, consider calling in from your phone instead. I will provide a google phone number.