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GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 301 MW 3:30pm-5:00pm, W 1:00pm-2:00pm Lafferty
Transnational Families
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 201
Transnational individuals sustain close communication with family members who live in a country other than the one in which they reside. According to Elizabetta Zontini, “Transnational families have members spread out across nation states but still maintain a sense of collective welfare and unity. Their kinship networks cross at ‘residential nodes’ in two or several countries.” In this seminar, students will write about how multilingual migrants and immigrants, including children, serve as conduits connecting donor and recipient cultures and languages. Your writing will explore tales of transnational lives in literature and cinema revealing how English integrates with other languages; authors and directors will include Gregory Djanikian, Rose Cohen Gollup, Guillermo Reyes, Bina Sharif, and Wayne Wang. Via drafting and revision, peer review, and collaborative writing, students will have the opportunity to polish their writing skills in academic and professional American English.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 302 MW 2:00pm-3:30pm, W 12:00pm-1:00pm Lafferty
Transnational Families
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 201
Immigration and Ethnicity
Transnational individuals sustain close communication with family members who live in a country other than the one in which they reside. According to Elizabetta Zontini, “Transnational families have members spread out across nation states but still maintain a sense of collective welfare and unity. Their kinship networks cross at ‘residential nodes’ in two or several countries.” In this seminar, students will write about how multilingual migrants and immigrants, including children, serve as conduits connecting donor and recipient cultures and languages. Your writing will explore tales of transnational lives in literature and cinema revealing how English integrates with other languages; authors and directors will include Gregory Djanikian, Rose Cohen Gollup, Guillermo Reyes, Bina Sharif, and Wayne Wang. Via drafting and revision, peer review, and collaborative writing, students will have the opportunity to polish their writing skills in academic and professional American English.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 303 TR 5:00pm-6:30pm, T 6:30pm-7:30pm Wehner
The Networked City
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 139
For years, marketers, journalists, and researchers have described digital technology as steadily eroding our ties to physical place. Some celebrate our ability to keep up with family and join virtual communities, regardless of distance; others warn of isolation, a decline in civic participation, and even the end of private space. Yet despite all these predictions, what text message remains more common than “where u @?” In this writing seminar, we’ll explore the emerging world of the networked city, asking how our digital lives influence our understanding and experience of the urban environment. We’ll use Philadelphia as a case study, reading local blogs and news sites, evaluating attempts at e-governance and activism, and participating in city tours via mouse-click and shoe leather. In addition to regular position papers, which we will draft, peer review, and revise, you’ll also post to blogs, try your hand at description and reflection, and collaborate on a digital writing project.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 304 TR 1:30pm-3:00pm, R 3:00pm-4:00pm Pagan Teitelbaum
Global Citizens in Film
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 141
The mobility of people and ideas around the world has generated new global citizens who transcend conventional boundaries of identity and place. How should the rights and responsibilities of global citizens be defined? Could individual actions have a local impact as well as global repercussions? In this course we will explore these complex questions through films such as Pocahontas, Beneath Clouds, Life and Debt, and Miracle at St. Anna. We will also examine the role of English in global communication. Writing assignments will include drafting and revision of brief position papers, peer review, online writing, and midterm and final portfolios.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 305 TR 9:00am-10:30am, R 10:30am-11:30am Pagan Teitelbaum
Global Citizens in Film
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 138
The mobility of people and ideas around the world has generated new global citizens who transcend conventional boundaries of identity and place. How should the rights and responsibilities of global citizens be defined? Could individual actions have a local impact as well as global repercussions? In this course we will explore these complex questions through films such as Pocahontas, Beneath Clouds, Life and Debt, and Miracle at St. Anna. We will also examine the role of English in global communication. Writing assignments will include drafting and revision of brief position papers, peer review, online writing, and midterm and final portfolios.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 302 TR 12:00pm-1:30pm Kauer
Eating Culture
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 329
Humans eat: we like to eat and we are fascinated by food. We must eat for biological reasons, but eating is much more than simply “fueling-up”. The meanings of eating and food in American culture have been changing and are even now being transformed. This class is oriented around the idea that eating is a basic but also very complicated human activity. We will focus on the possible meanings of "eating" as they intersect with and as they diverge from meanings of "food." Why do people eat? Why do we often choose to not eat? What place does eating have in our lives—how do we create the meanings of eating? Small class format allows direct interaction between instructor and students through: in-class discussion, in-class peer review, and through 1-on-1 meetings. Our own writing (essays, journals, blogs), others’ writings (published works), and our explorations of others’ experiences eating culture (discussion, collaborative work, peer review), will inform our exploration of these concepts.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 304 TR 1:30pm-3:00pm Mohr
Health and Healing in Africa
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 24
Africa is a region of the world where multiple therapeutic traditions co-exist, sometimes symbiotically and at others competitively. In most African societies, unlike in the US, biomedicine does not have a monopoly over healing. Therapy is given by family members, specialists in physical disorders, prophets, priests, oracles, makers of medicine, as well as physicians and pharmacists. In this writing seminar, we will examine the variety of healing traditions in Africa, particularly how both healing practitioners and patients react to various forms of culturally-defined forms of illness, from witchcraft and spirit possession to infertility and AIDS. This course is designed to improve students’ writing skills via peer review, multiple drafts and revisions of essays, and midterm and final portfolios.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 305 MW 2:00pm-3:30pm Schurmans
Archaeology of Human Beginning
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 25
In this writing seminar, we will examine the archaeology of human beginning. Our journey takes us from our first bipedal steps, over the early stone tools, and the origins of human culture. These hallmarks of human history took place in Africa and the continent and its archaeology will figure prominently in our readings and discussions. Questions of what makes us uniquely human forms the substance on which we will build another journey into our own abilities as writers. We will explore the writing of others as well as our own through group discussions, frequent essay writing, substantial revision, peer review, and an examination of the craft of writing through descriptive outlines. The goal in these is to improve your ability to communicate effectively in writing for a range of audiences. Foremost among these audiences will be your fellow students in the class.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 306 MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Biruk
Anthropology of Epidemics
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
TOWNE BUILDING 303
AIDS, bird flu, anthrax, mad cow: globalization and technological advances have not only permitted the easy circulation of people and ideas, but of microbes, as well. Yet epidemics are not simply a matter of medical science. In this seminar, we will explore the social and cultural implications of epidemics, including their role in revealing contrasting and sometimes competing definitions of the public good. How might these ideas, values, and fears influence our response to a medical emergency? What role does culture play in deciding how we might spread or contain an epidemic? We will consider both historical examples (such as the Black Death and the 1918 flu) and contemporary outbreaks as case studies to illuminate the relationships between illness and society, drawing on texts from anthropology, literature, and history. Assignments will include critical essays, peer review, editorials, vibrant discussions, and blog entries.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 307 MW 5:00pm-6:30pm Johnson
Bones of Contention
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
WILLIAMS HALL 705
The looting of sculpture, pottery, tablets, and other priceless items from the National Museum of Iraq in 2003 created an international uproar and sparked a critical debate about the ownership, display, and sale of ancient artifacts. Should museums such as the Met in New York or the British Museum in London purchase antiquities that might be subject to conflicting claims of ownership? For that matter, should museums return, or repatriate, objects already in their collections? Should individual countries be held responsible for governing their own antiquities laws, or should an international body such as the United Nations be in charge? In this course, students will compose short essays that consider their own positions on the issues as well as those of museum directors, archaeologists, antiquities dealers, private collectors, and the looters themselves. Emphasis will be placed on the development of written dialectical skills through drafting, peer review, and critical reading.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 308 TR 9:00am-10:30am Mohr
Health and Healing in Africa
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 25
Africa is a region of the world where multiple therapeutic traditions co-exist, sometimes symbiotically and at others competitively. In most African societies, unlike in the US, biomedicine does not have a monopoly over healing. Therapy is given by family members, specialists in physical disorders, prophets, priests, oracles, makers of medicine, as well as physicians and pharmacists. In this writing seminar, we will examine the variety of healing traditions in Africa, particularly how both healing practitioners and patients react to various forms of culturally-defined forms of illness, from witchcraft and spirit possession to infertility and AIDS. This course is designed to improve students’ writing skills via peer review, multiple drafts and revisions of essays, and midterm and final portfolios.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 309 MWF 10:00am-11:00am Hafford
The Meaning of Money
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
KELLY WRITERS HOUSE 202
Money is a fundamental concept embedded in virtually every aspect of today's life. We see it, earn it and use it every day but rarely question its existence or consider its origins. To ask, 'What is money?' seems absurd, but the issue is intensely complex and surprisingly antique. In fact, money is not a thing, but an abstract concept and the dollar is only one expression of this ancient and far-reaching idea. This course will explore the concept of value and examine its correlates: currency, coinage and credit. Students will be required to participate in class discussions, keep a class journal and write and revise essays covering the process of valuation, exchange and the use and impact of money in society, both ancient and modern.

ART HISTORY
WRIT 015 301 TR 12:00pm-1:30pm Chang
The Body in Modern Painting
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 222
From the sculptures of antiquity to the academic paintings of 19th-century France, the skillful and realistic depiction of the human body has remained a consistent indicator of an artist’s abilities. However, towards the end of the 19th century, painters began to push the boundaries of figural representation, employing non-naturalistic color, distorted anatomical proportions, and simplified forms. In examining how painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse approached the body, we will consider the stylistic transition from Impressionism to abstraction. What does each style express about the human body that the other may not? How might abstraction capture qualities that might never have been considered if capturing reality had remained the goal? In addition to reading critical literature, we will gain firsthand experience by studying works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. During the semester, students will write and revise several short position papers, take part in regular peer review sessions, and compile a midterm and final portfolio of their work.

ART HISTORY
WRIT 015 302 TR 3:00pm-4:30pm Suchanek
Art & Vision in the 19th Century
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
WILLIAMS HALL 306
What is the relationship between our perception of the world and artists’ depictions of it? How do you represent the fluid and temporal nature of seeing with painted canvas and a static image? This class will examine artistic responses to the problem of vision, as it changed from the most highly regarded form of sensory perception and the source of the most reliable evidence (“seeing is believing”), to a process increasing understood as subject to illusion and misapprehension. After exploring the nature of seeing more broadly, we will consider the historical case of the nineteenth century, when vision was an object of intense fascination foregrounded in novels, debated by theorists, and enhanced through new technologies. We will examine and write about the work of artists ranging from the Realists to the Impressionists, and from Cézanne to Matisse.

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
WRIT 016 301 TR 3:00pm-4:30pm Sadashige
Race and Popular Cinema
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
VAN PELT LIBRARY FLMCR
Crosslisted with: FILM 009 403
Do media representations anticipate, reflect, question, or contest popular beliefs about race and nationality and other forms of identity? Is ethnic humor progressive or simply an excuse for racism? By examining films across a spectrum of genres and from a range of time periods, we will explore these and other questions. Students will draft a series of short critical essays, engage in peer review and class workshops, and work on progressive revision. Assignments may also include multi-media projects such as a video mashups or comic books or attendance at a local film festival.

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
WRIT 016 302 MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Nair
Asian American Communities
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
Often, social groups in the United States are thought of in binary terms: black or white, male or female, immigrant or native. But what happens when Asian Americans disrupt these categories and the thinking behind them? Throughout this seminar, students will examine a number of complications and questions affecting the status of Asian Americans, including family lives, patterns of acculturation, and the model minority myth. We'll consider historical, contemporary, and post 9-11 experiences, noting how the racial category "Asian American" has changed over time. We'll explore the importance of popular culture among Asian American youth and the ways in which gender and sexuality add a further dimension of complexity. Building on readings and film screenings, a combination of writing assignments, peer review, and groupwork will help us to develop a deeper understanding of the diverse experiences of Asian Americans.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
WRIT 023 301 MW 2:00pm-3:30pm Legrand
The Business of Image
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
TOWNE BUILDING 303
This writing seminar will explore the ethical issues Public Relations (PR) professionals confront while using the writing process to influence public perception. Raising questions about the role of PR in corporate, non-profit, and political image development will allow you to consider the role audience plays in the writing process. Readings will include case studies, pop culture texts, selected essays, and various PR materials. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to develop writing skills, including argumentation, reasoning, and audience awareness. You will complete several short assignments and contribute regularly to a course blog. As a final project, you will work in small PR teams to transfer your writing skills to the development of a PR campaign for a non-profit organization or social cause.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
WRIT 023 302 MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Murphy
Drug Business and Ethics
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 20
Many diseases once considered a death sentence have become manageable thanks to medicines that were discovered and developed in the U.S. Yet as the power of the pharmaceutical industry grows, new questions arise about the scientific and business ethics of manufacturing medicines. This seminar will explore current debates about drug development and marketing while helping you to hone your critical writing skills. Does direct-to-consumer advertising put more information in the hands of patients or encourage unnecessary drug use? Should pharmaceutical companies receive patent protection as a way to promote innovation? In weighing these questions, we will draw on academic research, journalism, and opinion pieces to get a range of perspectives. Throughout, we will practice many of the writing skills critical to success in business and the professions, including rhetorical strategies for organizing ideas and persuading readers.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
WRIT 023 303 MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Legrand
The Business of Image
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
JAFFE BUILDING 104, CHEMISTRY BUILDING 514
This writing seminar will explore the ethical issues Public Relations (PR) professionals confront while using the writing process to influence public perception. Raising questions about the role of PR in corporate, non-profit, and political image development will allow you to consider the role audience plays in the writing process. Readings will include case studies, pop culture texts, selected essays, and various PR materials. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to develop writing skills, including argumentation, reasoning, and audience awareness. You will complete several short assignments and contribute regularly to a course blog. As a final project, you will work in small PR teams to transfer your writing skills to the development of a PR campaign for a non-profit organization or social cause.

CINEMA STUDIES
WRIT 025 301 TR 10:30am-12:00pm Baumli
Spectators, Witnesses, Voyeurs
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 3C4
In this class, we will focus on ideas of spectatorship, witnessing, and voyeurism as depicted in contemporary Hollywood film . The course goal is to advance the students' writing skills while immersing them in the course topic and the field of cinema studies. During the first half of the semester, we focus on academic writing and peer reviewing as we analyze films and music videos including Rear Window, Amélie, Blue Velvet, American Beauty, The Truman Show, Natural Born Killers and Man on the Moon. In the second half, students will be introduced to a range of writing specific to the film industry but transferable in form and intent to most other fields: summary, persuasion, dialogue, exposition, description. Each student will learn to write a logline, an outline, storyboards, and a screenplay elaborating a scene.

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GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 301	MW 3:30pm-5:00pm, W 1:00pm-2:00pm Lafferty
Transnational Families
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 201
Transnational individuals sustain close communication with family members who live in a country other than the one in which they reside. According to Elizabetta Zontini, “Transnational families have members spread out across nation states but still maintain a sense of collective welfare and unity. Their kinship networks cross at ‘residential nodes’ in two or several countries.” In this seminar, students will write about how multilingual migrants and immigrants, including children, serve as conduits connecting donor and recipient cultures and languages. Your writing will explore tales of transnational lives in literature and cinema revealing how English integrates with other languages; authors and directors will include Gregory Djanikian, Rose Cohen Gollup, Guillermo Reyes, Bina Sharif, and Wayne Wang. Via drafting and revision, peer review, and collaborative writing, students will have the opportunity to polish their writing skills in academic and professional American English.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 302	MW 2:00pm-3:30pm, W 12:00pm-1:00pm Lafferty
Transnational Families
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 201 Immigration and Ethnicity
Transnational individuals sustain close communication with family members who live in a country other than the one in which they reside. According to Elizabetta Zontini, “Transnational families have members spread out across nation states but still maintain a sense of collective welfare and unity. Their kinship networks cross at ‘residential nodes’ in two or several countries.” In this seminar, students will write about how multilingual migrants and immigrants, including children, serve as conduits connecting donor and recipient cultures and languages. Your writing will explore tales of transnational lives in literature and cinema revealing how English integrates with other languages; authors and directors will include Gregory Djanikian, Rose Cohen Gollup, Guillermo Reyes, Bina Sharif, and Wayne Wang. Via drafting and revision, peer review, and collaborative writing, students will have the opportunity to polish their writing skills in academic and professional American English.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 303	TR 5:00pm-6:30pm, T 6:30pm-7:30pm Wehner
The Networked City
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 139
For years, marketers, journalists, and researchers have described digital technology as steadily eroding our ties to physical place. Some celebrate our ability to keep up with family and join virtual communities, regardless of distance; others warn of isolation, a decline in civic participation, and even the end of private space. Yet despite all these predictions, what text message remains more common than “where u @?” In this writing seminar, we’ll explore the emerging world of the networked city, asking how our digital lives influence our understanding and experience of the urban environment. We’ll use Philadelphia as a case study, reading local blogs and news sites, evaluating attempts at e-governance and activism, and participating in city tours via mouse-click and shoe leather. In addition to regular position papers, which we will draft, peer review, and revise, you’ll also post to blogs, try your hand at description and reflection, and collaborate on a digital writing project.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 304	TR 1:30pm-3:00pm, R 3:00pm-4:00pm Pagan Teitelbaum
Global Citizens in Film
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 141
The mobility of people and ideas around the world has generated new global citizens who transcend conventional boundaries of identity and place. How should the rights and responsibilities of global citizens be defined? Could individual actions have a local impact as well as global repercussions? In this course we will explore these complex questions through films such as Pocahontas, Beneath Clouds, Life and Debt, and Miracle at St. Anna. We will also examine the role of English in global communication. Writing assignments will include drafting and revision of brief position papers, peer review, online writing, and midterm and final portfolios.

GLOBAL ENGLISH
WRIT 011 305	TR 9:00am-10:30am, R 10:30am-11:30am Pagan Teitelbaum
Global Citizens in Film
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 138
The mobility of people and ideas around the world has generated new global citizens who transcend conventional boundaries of identity and place. How should the rights and responsibilities of global citizens be defined? Could individual actions have a local impact as well as global repercussions? In this course we will explore these complex questions through films such as Pocahontas, Beneath Clouds, Life and Debt, and Miracle at St. Anna. We will also examine the role of English in global communication. Writing assignments will include drafting and revision of brief position papers, peer review, online writing, and midterm and final portfolios.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 302	TR 12:00pm-1:30pm Kauer
Eating Culture
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 329
Humans eat: we like to eat and we are fascinated by food. We must eat for biological reasons, but eating is much more than simply “fueling-up”. The meanings of eating and food in American culture have been changing and are even now being transformed. This class is oriented around the idea that eating is a basic but also very complicated human activity. We will focus on the possible meanings of "eating" as they intersect with and as they diverge from meanings of "food." Why do people eat? Why do we often choose to not eat? What place does eating have in our lives—how do we create the meanings of eating? Small class format allows direct interaction between instructor and students through: in-class discussion, in-class peer review, and through 1-on-1 meetings. Our own writing (essays, journals, blogs), others’ writings (published works), and our explorations of others’ experiences eating culture (discussion, collaborative work, peer review), will inform our exploration of these concepts.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 304	TR 1:30pm-3:00pm Mohr
Health and Healing in Africa
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 24
Africa is a region of the world where multiple therapeutic traditions co-exist, sometimes symbiotically and at others competitively. In most African societies, unlike in the US, biomedicine does not have a monopoly over healing. Therapy is given by family members, specialists in physical disorders, prophets, priests, oracles, makers of medicine, as well as physicians and pharmacists. In this writing seminar, we will examine the variety of healing traditions in Africa, particularly how both healing practitioners and patients react to various forms of culturally-defined forms of illness, from witchcraft and spirit possession to infertility and AIDS. This course is designed to improve students’ writing skills via peer review, multiple drafts and revisions of essays, and midterm and final portfolios.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 305	MW 2:00pm-3:30pm Schurmans
Archaeology of Human Beginning
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 25
In this writing seminar, we will examine the archaeology of human beginning. Our journey takes us from our first bipedal steps, over the early stone tools, and the origins of human culture. These hallmarks of human history took place in Africa and the continent and its archaeology will figure prominently in our readings and discussions. Questions of what makes us uniquely human forms the substance on which we will build another journey into our own abilities as writers. We will explore the writing of others as well as our own through group discussions, frequent essay writing, substantial revision, peer review, and an examination of the craft of writing through descriptive outlines. The goal in these is to improve your ability to communicate effectively in writing for a range of audiences. Foremost among these audiences will be your fellow students in the class.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 306	MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Biruk
Anthropology of Epidemics
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
TOWNE BUILDING 303
AIDS, bird flu, anthrax, mad cow: globalization and technological advances have not only permitted the easy circulation of people and ideas, but of microbes, as well. Yet epidemics are not simply a matter of medical science. In this seminar, we will explore the social and cultural implications of epidemics, including their role in revealing contrasting and sometimes competing definitions of the public good. How might these ideas, values, and fears influence our response to a medical emergency? What role does culture play in deciding how we might spread or contain an epidemic? We will consider both historical examples (such as the Black Death and the 1918 flu) and contemporary outbreaks as case studies to illuminate the relationships between illness and society, drawing on texts from anthropology, literature, and history. Assignments will include critical essays, peer review, editorials, vibrant discussions, and blog entries.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 307	MW 5:00pm-6:30pm Johnson
Bones of Contention
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
WILLIAMS HALL 705
The looting of sculpture, pottery, tablets, and other priceless items from the National Museum of Iraq in 2003 created an international uproar and sparked a critical debate about the ownership, display, and sale of ancient artifacts. Should museums such as the Met in New York or the British Museum in London purchase antiquities that might be subject to conflicting claims of ownership? For that matter, should museums return, or repatriate, objects already in their collections? Should individual countries be held responsible for governing their own antiquities laws, or should an international body such as the United Nations be in charge? In this course, students will compose short essays that consider their own positions on the issues as well as those of museum directors, archaeologists, antiquities dealers, private collectors, and the looters themselves. Emphasis will be placed on the development of written dialectical skills through drafting, peer review, and critical reading.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 308	TR 9:00am-10:30am Mohr
Health and Healing in Africa
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 25
Africa is a region of the world where multiple therapeutic traditions co-exist, sometimes symbiotically and at others competitively. In most African societies, unlike in the US, biomedicine does not have a monopoly over healing. Therapy is given by family members, specialists in physical disorders, prophets, priests, oracles, makers of medicine, as well as physicians and pharmacists. In this writing seminar, we will examine the variety of healing traditions in Africa, particularly how both healing practitioners and patients react to various forms of culturally-defined forms of illness, from witchcraft and spirit possession to infertility and AIDS. This course is designed to improve students’ writing skills via peer review, multiple drafts and revisions of essays, and midterm and final portfolios.

ANTHROPOLOGY
WRIT 013 309	MWF 10:00am-11:00am Hafford
The Meaning of Money
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
KELLY WRITERS HOUSE 202
Money is a fundamental concept embedded in virtually every aspect of today's life. We see it, earn it and use it every day but rarely question its existence or consider its origins. To ask, 'What is money?' seems absurd, but the issue is intensely complex and surprisingly antique. In fact, money is not a thing, but an abstract concept and the dollar is only one expression of this ancient and far-reaching idea. This course will explore the concept of value and examine its correlates: currency, coinage and credit. Students will be required to participate in class discussions, keep a class journal and write and revise essays covering the process of valuation, exchange and the use and impact of money in society, both ancient and modern.

ART HISTORY
WRIT 015 301	TR 12:00pm-1:30pm Chang
The Body in Modern Painting
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 222
From the sculptures of antiquity to the academic paintings of 19th-century France, the skillful and realistic depiction of the human body has remained a consistent indicator of an artist’s abilities. However, towards the end of the 19th century, painters began to push the boundaries of figural representation, employing non-naturalistic color, distorted anatomical proportions, and simplified forms. In examining how painters such as Manet, Gauguin, Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse approached the body, we will consider the stylistic transition from Impressionism to abstraction. What does each style express about the human body that the other may not? How might abstraction capture qualities that might never have been considered if capturing reality had remained the goal? In addition to reading critical literature, we will gain firsthand experience by studying works at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. During the semester, students will write and revise several short position papers, take part in regular peer review sessions, and compile a midterm and final portfolio of their work.

ART HISTORY
WRIT 015 302	TR 3:00pm-4:30pm Suchanek
Art & Vision in the 19th Century
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
WILLIAMS HALL 306
What is the relationship between our perception of the world and artists’ depictions of it? How do you represent the fluid and temporal nature of seeing with painted canvas and a static image? This class will examine artistic responses to the problem of vision, as it changed from the most highly regarded form of sensory perception and the source of the most reliable evidence (“seeing is believing”), to a process increasing understood as subject to illusion and misapprehension. After exploring the nature of seeing more broadly, we will consider the historical case of the nineteenth century, when vision was an object of intense fascination foregrounded in novels, debated by theorists, and enhanced through new technologies. We will examine and write about the work of artists ranging from the Realists to the Impressionists, and from Cézanne to Matisse.

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
WRIT 016 301	TR 3:00pm-4:30pm Sadashige
Race and Popular Cinema
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
VAN PELT LIBRARY FLMCR
Crosslisted with: FILM 009 403
Do media representations anticipate, reflect, question, or contest popular beliefs about race and nationality and other forms of identity? Is ethnic humor progressive or simply an excuse for racism? By examining films across a spectrum of genres and from a range of time periods, we will explore these and other questions. Students will draft a series of short critical essays, engage in peer review and class workshops, and work on progressive revision. Assignments may also include multi-media projects such as a video mashups or comic books or attendance at a local film festival.

ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
WRIT 016 302	MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Nair
Asian American Communities
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
Often, social groups in the United States are thought of in binary terms: black or white, male or female, immigrant or native. But what happens when Asian Americans disrupt these categories and the thinking behind them? Throughout this seminar, students will examine a number of complications and questions affecting the status of Asian Americans, including family lives, patterns of acculturation, and the model minority myth. We'll consider historical, contemporary, and post 9-11 experiences, noting how the racial category "Asian American" has changed over time. We'll explore the importance of popular culture among Asian American youth and the ways in which gender and sexuality add a further dimension of complexity. Building on readings and film screenings, a combination of writing assignments, peer review, and groupwork will help us to develop a deeper understanding of the diverse experiences of Asian Americans.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
WRIT 023 301	MW 2:00pm-3:30pm Legrand
The Business of Image
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
TOWNE BUILDING 303
This writing seminar will explore the ethical issues Public Relations (PR) professionals confront while using the writing process to influence public perception. Raising questions about the role of PR in corporate, non-profit, and political image development will allow you to consider the role audience plays in the writing process. Readings will include case studies, pop culture texts, selected essays, and various PR materials. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to develop writing skills, including argumentation, reasoning, and audience awareness. You will complete several short assignments and contribute regularly to a course blog. As a final project, you will work in small PR teams to transfer your writing skills to the development of a PR campaign for a non-profit organization or social cause.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
WRIT 023 302	MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Murphy
Drug Business and Ethics
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
BENNETT HALL 20
Many diseases once considered a death sentence have become manageable thanks to medicines that were discovered and developed in the U.S. Yet as the power of the pharmaceutical industry grows, new questions arise about the scientific and business ethics of manufacturing medicines. This seminar will explore current debates about drug development and marketing while helping you to hone your critical writing skills. Does direct-to-consumer advertising put more information in the hands of patients or encourage unnecessary drug use? Should pharmaceutical companies receive patent protection as a way to promote innovation? In weighing these questions, we will draw on academic research, journalism, and opinion pieces to get a range of perspectives. Throughout, we will practice many of the writing skills critical to success in business and the professions, including rhetorical strategies for organizing ideas and persuading readers.

BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
WRIT 023 303	MW 3:30pm-5:00pm Legrand
The Business of Image
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
JAFFE BUILDING 104, CHEMISTRY BUILDING 514
This writing seminar will explore the ethical issues Public Relations (PR) professionals confront while using the writing process to influence public perception. Raising questions about the role of PR in corporate, non-profit, and political image development will allow you to consider the role audience plays in the writing process. Readings will include case studies, pop culture texts, selected essays, and various PR materials. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to develop writing skills, including argumentation, reasoning, and audience awareness. You will complete several short assignments and contribute regularly to a course blog. As a final project, you will work in small PR teams to transfer your writing skills to the development of a PR campaign for a non-profit organization or social cause.

CINEMA STUDIES
WRIT 025 301	TR 10:30am-12:00pm Baumli
Spectators, Witnesses, Voyeurs
Fulfills the Writing Requirement
DAVID RITTENHOUSE LAB 3C4
In this class, we will focus on ideas of spectatorship, witnessing, and voyeurism as depicted in contemporary Hollywood film . The course goal is to advance the students' writing skills while immersing them in the course topic and the field of cinema studies. During the first half of the semester, we focus on academic writing and peer reviewing as we analyze films and music videos including Rear Window, Amélie, Blue Velvet, American Beauty, The Truman Show, Natural Born Killers and Man on the Moon. In the second half, students will be introduced to a range of writing specific to the film industry but transferable in form and intent to most other fields: summary, persuasion, dialogue, exposition, description. Each student will learn to write a logline, an outline, storyboards, and a screenplay elaborating a scene.

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