Fwd: [UCSBADVS] F25 Space available in UD Writing courses
Undergrad Advising Global Studies
Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Subject: [UCSBADVS] F25 Space available in UD Writing courses
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Writing 105CR addresses the role of rhetoric as a social and communicative act in cultural communities. In the class, we will examine the connection between rhetoric and conceptions about race and ethnicity in cultural communities. We will consider how US American films, literature, music, and art form cultural communities and shape the dominant narratives that are produced about these various communities. Importantly, we will also spend time analyzing rhetorical strategies used in counternarratives that challenge and revise misrepresentations of communities through gathering, evaluating, and incorporating primary and secondary sources.
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2 offerings available with Dr. Rebecca Chenoweth:
- TR 2:00-3:15, LSB 1101
- TR 3:30-4:45 LSB 1101
If you’re enthusiastic about science and its findings, this class will help you find and reach public communities that can help create lasting change. This small class is perfect for students from majors across (and beyond) all STEM fields. You’ll learn to explain complex concepts clearly, get readers invested in what matters to you, and enhance the process and impact of the sciences.
Here are some projects student have created for this class:
Local news articles on preventing diseases in Isla Vista
Children’s books on the power of sleep for your brain
Interactive museum displays on paradoxes in math
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WRIT 105WE: Writing & Ethics
MW 5:00-6:15, SH 1609
Instructor: Dr. Peter Gilbert
21st Century Inequality
In this class we will advance the techniques from Writing 2 in order to further hone our writing and research skills. Good writing means clear thinking, which requires creative approaches to research, peer review, and revision—in short, writing well means following your curiosity to serve readers a captivating story. Our focus this quarter will examine basic features of contemporary inequality. There are a staggering number of ways to measure inequality, and the mainstream emergence of scholars like Thomas Piketty, Joseph Stiglitz, and Michelle Alexander, or movements like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, have given the public a firmer grasp on the scope and severity of inequality. But if our institutions have firmly staked inequality as an imminent problem, why does it seem they are so poorly suited to solve it? By many measurements, political polarization has exacerbated for over 45 years, dampening government effectiveness and inflaming populist voters, for better or worse. Many experts agree that after a certain threshold inequality will erode democratic norms. Already, the 21st century bears witness to alarming trends. Rising disparities in income, wealth, and opportunity underlie our anxieties about rising authoritarianism and aggravated climate disasters. If economists like Piketty and Stiglitz are right to say inequality is the result of political choices, how have our institutions, habits, and ideologies inflicted these divisions? What might be done to alleviate them?
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WRIT 107G: Professional Writing for Global Careers
2 offerings available with Dr. Ljiljana Coklin:
- MW 11-12:15, LSB 1101
- MW 12:30-1:45, LSB 1101
Writing 107G invites students to explore professional communication in a global context and look at social, political, economic, or environmental issues that accompany global development. We will give special attention to the potential of young people to examine, understand, evaluate, and radically reimagine global relations and societies. Students will expand their professional writing skills and learn how to build stronger, more inclusive, more just, and more equitable communities.
In Writing 107G, you will
-) Write memos, newsletter articles, reports, and action plans
-) Explore the world of nonprofits
-) Problem-solve in global contexts
-) Create visually appealing documents
-) Build your writing portfolio
2 course offerings available with Dr. Deborah Harris:
- TR 2:00-3:15, BUCHN 1934
- TR 12:30-1:45, BUCHN 1934
Writing 109V is designed to help writers from any discipline develop writing techniques and analytical skills appropriate for upper division coursework, independent research and writing projects, graduate school, and professional activity related to visual arts. While art majors can certainly benefit from the course, the course helps students from any major with descriptive skills, critical thinking, visual design elements, and professional writing.
To this end, students read relevant essays, propose and design original material, and learn the formal conventions of different genres of writing in and for the visual arts field. The class addresses such issues related to visual arts including: the role of the critic and the reviewer; the nature, value and limitation of research; the role of theory and of personal opinion in defining and categorizing art; the role of media in a changing ecology.
This class helps expose students to documents commonly produced and circulated in the art world, and prepares students with the skills necessary to describe and evaluate visual texts with words.
