ENG 101.008 This Disabled American Life (FWRT)
Fall 2013
MWF 2:00PM-2:50PM
Callaway Center N203
Instructor: Adam P. Newman
[email protected]
Office Hours: Mondays/Wednesdays 3-5pm and by appointment @ Callaway N207A Course Website: http://thisdisabledamericanlife.weebly.com/
Course Hashtag: #DisAmericanLife
By now it has become somewhat commonplace to recognize the ways that race, gender, sexuality, and/or class have structured American life. But it remains rare for anyone to pay sustained critical attention to the way that dis/ability has permeated and influenced all areas of life and culture in America. In this intensive first-year writing course we will take this inattention as an opportunity not only to collectively hone our writing skills on an intriguing and often overlooked issue, but also to make an actual contribution to the small but growing body of knowledge on it. As such, we will explore the various modes of composing (in traditional alphanumeric writing as well as in other modes including visual, video, audio, and various combinations of these) and the issues of audience, purpose, revision, persuasion, self-assessment etc. that should always attend our compositions, while simultaneously producing digitally accessible artifacts that explore how a few of the diverse sites of American life are effected by disability.
More specifically, over the course of the semester we will: (1) explore the language that we use today and have used historically to discuss disability in America by collaboratively producing a glossary of key terms and their histories/meanings/implications; (2) interrogate the way that disability is in part a product of the physical environment by creating a multimodal digital map of Emory’s own campus that highlights its (in)accessibility and advertising our creation to different constituencies; and (3) investigate the way that disability functions in each of our own professional/academic areas of interest by purposefully responding to specific cases in them with research projects appropriate to the conventions of our respective professional communities of interest.
This course meets the college writing requirement for first years. This requirement may be met with a grade of D or above.
Fall 2013
MWF 2:00PM-2:50PM
Callaway Center N203
Instructor: Adam P. Newman
[email protected]
Office Hours: Mondays/Wednesdays 3-5pm and by appointment @ Callaway N207A Course Website: http://thisdisabledamericanlife.weebly.com/
Course Hashtag: #DisAmericanLife
By now it has become somewhat commonplace to recognize the ways that race, gender, sexuality, and/or class have structured American life. But it remains rare for anyone to pay sustained critical attention to the way that dis/ability has permeated and influenced all areas of life and culture in America. In this intensive first-year writing course we will take this inattention as an opportunity not only to collectively hone our writing skills on an intriguing and often overlooked issue, but also to make an actual contribution to the small but growing body of knowledge on it. As such, we will explore the various modes of composing (in traditional alphanumeric writing as well as in other modes including visual, video, audio, and various combinations of these) and the issues of audience, purpose, revision, persuasion, self-assessment etc. that should always attend our compositions, while simultaneously producing digitally accessible artifacts that explore how a few of the diverse sites of American life are effected by disability.
More specifically, over the course of the semester we will: (1) explore the language that we use today and have used historically to discuss disability in America by collaboratively producing a glossary of key terms and their histories/meanings/implications; (2) interrogate the way that disability is in part a product of the physical environment by creating a multimodal digital map of Emory’s own campus that highlights its (in)accessibility and advertising our creation to different constituencies; and (3) investigate the way that disability functions in each of our own professional/academic areas of interest by purposefully responding to specific cases in them with research projects appropriate to the conventions of our respective professional communities of interest.
This course meets the college writing requirement for first years. This requirement may be met with a grade of D or above.
Domain of One’s Own
This course is part of the Domain of One’s Own pilot project. As part of the Domain of One’s Own project you will author and administrate a personal website, close read multimodal texts for form and theme, and compose with a variety of digital tools.
-No prior experience with web design or digital authoring is required for successful completion of course work
-Student work will be published to the web and available to reading publics beyond the class and university
-Once you have completed the course, the site you built is yours to continue to develop into a personal cyberinfastructure that may include, but is not
limited to, course projects, a professional portfolio, resume/CV documents, social media feeds, and blogs.
A Welcome to Emory's Domain Of One's Own Project from the Project Directors:
This course is part of the Domain of One’s Own pilot project. As part of the Domain of One’s Own project you will author and administrate a personal website, close read multimodal texts for form and theme, and compose with a variety of digital tools.
-No prior experience with web design or digital authoring is required for successful completion of course work
-Student work will be published to the web and available to reading publics beyond the class and university
-Once you have completed the course, the site you built is yours to continue to develop into a personal cyberinfastructure that may include, but is not
limited to, course projects, a professional portfolio, resume/CV documents, social media feeds, and blogs.
A Welcome to Emory's Domain Of One's Own Project from the Project Directors:
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