ENGL. 211: Writing in the humanities and social sciences
Course Description
In this class, we will go through a journey to investigate our own and others’ identities. We will reflect critically on who we are as individuals, as members of cultural groups, and how we came to believe in who we are. We will rhetorically analyze cultural artifacts that influence who we are, and we will create others to challenge those influences, therefore we will use rhetoric to change the world. During this semester, I hope that each of us will come to a closer understanding to how “I” was/is shaped and constructed socially, and to be critical in accepting or rejecting the assigned identities that we live by. By asking questions of gender, race, sexual orientations, age and disability, we will examine how culture informs who we are, and how every day communication inspires who we believe we are. However, that’s only one side of the equation; if we come to question our assigned identities, we should in result question the “others’” identities that are also socially assigned. |