PUBLIC WRITING
PUBLIC & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Providing community engaged writing experiences for emerging professionals
PUBLIC & PROFESSIONAL WRITING
This course introduces students to the practices involved in becoming a public/professional writer as well as the extent to which professional writing infiltrates contemporary workplaces. Students query the ethics of public writing and analyze the kinds of public and professional writing that surround them in the Louisville metro area by working with local non-profit organizations on writing projects.
Most recently, students have researched social media marketing, equity statements for the workplace, and website accessibility requirements for:
Students also practice developing their own voices as writers through blogging and creating websites to host their blog content.
TALKING TO ANIMALS, LISTENING TO NATURE
This honors course challenges the idea of humans as the only, or best, communicators. Students spend the semester asking difficult questions such as: How do humans open themselves to hear and understand the communication of animals and nature more generally? What might we learn by studying non-human rhetorics? How does considering the more-than-human allow us to honor different ways of being in the world?
As a field-intensive course, students spend time at the following locations:
Students also end the course by teaching a sustainability / environmental justice lesson to high school students in Bullitt County.
