Teaching and Troubling Writing Intensive Courses, 2010

Since 2007, over 70 DU faculty have participated in three-day workshops, as preamble to their teaching a Writing Intensive Core course. This slim volume collects the work of seventeen professors as they reflect on the Writing Intensive Core.

Teaching and Troubling Writing Intensive Courses, 2010

Articles from Teaching and Troubling Writing Intensive Courses, 2010

Introduction: Teaching and Troubling

Doug Hesse, Former Director, Writing Program

Writing by Numbers?!

Kim Axline, Theatre

Culture of Desire: Queer Theory

Luc Beaudoin, Gender and Women's Studies

An Overview of Writing in Core 2560: America through Foreign Eyes

Christof Demont-Heinrich, Media, Film & Journalism Studies

American Utopias, on Paper and in Practice

David Ciepley, Political Science

“Wealth, Power, and Justice in the European Union:” Reflection on the Writing Component for Core 2414

Lisa Conant, Socio-legal Studies, Gender & Women's Studies, SIE Int'l Security & Diplomacy

Good Vibrations: Electronic Music, Technology, and Culture

Ron DeLyser, Engineering & Computer Science

Race, Inequality and Public Policy: Writing Intensive Assignments in a Core Class

Lucy Dwight, Sociology

Reflections on the Writing Intensive Core Workshop

Tony Gault, Film & Journalism Studies

Art and the Environment

Annabeth Headrick, Art History, Women & Gender Studies

Narrative Strategies and Narratology in Cinema

Elizabeth Henry, Media, Film & Journalism Studies

Satire and the One-Two Punch of Creativity and Analysis

Allison Horsley, Theatre

Ways of Knowing the Writing Intensive Requirement

Elizabeth Karlsgodt, History

Strangeness, Irregularity, and Non-Linearity

Brian Kiteley, English

Varieties of Latin@ Religious Traditions

Luis Leon, Religious Studies

American Utopias

Caleb McDaniel, Hsitory

Intensive Writing in “Cultural Intersections”

Maik Nwosu, English

Reflections: Civic Engagement and International Marketing

Pallab Paul, Business

Teaching “Testimony, Memory and Allegory: The Representations of the Chinese Cultural Revolution”

Li Li Peters, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Asian Studies

Reflections on “Jewish Italy”

Gabrielle E. Popoff, History

Writing as a Way of Teaching Students How to Talk “Art Talk”

Carl Raschke, Religious Studies

Vestiges of the Natural History of Core: A Team-Taught, Interdisciplinary Approach to a Writing-Intensive, Honors Course

Gregory Robbins, History, Religious Studies

Islam in the American Mosaic: The Writing Component

Liyakat Takim, International Studies

Mediating Creative Dialogue: Multigenre Writing Projects in a Core Course,

Sue Tyburski, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Some Thoughts on Writing for Students Who Work with Me: A Draft Continually in Progress

Paul R. Viotti, International Studies

Interdisciplinary Writing at Home and Abroad: Excavating and Exploring Italy,

Eleanor McNees, English & Literary Arts

Making the Arbitrary Relevant

Sarah Watamura

Afterword: To ASEM

Doug Hesse, Former Executive Director, Writing Program