Summer 2008 Adult Credit Courses

The purpose of this course is to develop your abilities, as writers, to manipulate a variety of writing modes and styles. We will focus on the significance of audience and voice and on the difference between “subjective” and “objective” forms of writing. Students will learn how audience, purpose and context shape expectations in writing. Some attention will be paid to developing research and documentation skills. Revision will be emphasized, and writing groups will be formed to aid in this process and to enhance analytical skills.

Students learn how to survey media and how to assess and study the state of the world. Through class discussions students learn how to develop, follow, and deepen their curiosity and knowledge of headlines and their histories. Selected current events and issues are researched and presented. Students will establish contacts and relationships with arts colleges in other countries, exchange ideas, and experience the building of peace through art. Meeting four days a week for five weeks, students learn how to think and act historically.