Writing 5 -- Expository Writing |
Section 01 |
Hour: 9L; Instructor: Francine A'Ness |
Course Title: Experience and Education
Description: In Experience and Education, we explore two questions: what makes an experience educational and what is the relationship between education and power? Through micro and macro lenses, you will reflect on your own educational experiences as well as contemplate the role that schools as primary social educational institutions play in society, today and in the past. The texts we will use to think through these questions will include essays, film, theatre, and art.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 02 |
Hour: 10A; Instructor: Stefan Aune |
Course Title: Colonial Violence in the American West
Description: This first-year writing course explores the role that violence played in shaping the United States, with an emphasis on the intersections of Native American history and the US-Mexico borderlands. Our class will work together to analyze how a single traumatic event, the 1871 Camp Grant Massacre, produced a variety of competing stories about what the violence at Camp Grant meant, and how it impacted different communities along the US-Mexico border.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 03 |
Hour: 2A; Instructor: Stefan Aune |
Course Title: Colonial Violence in the American West
Description: This first-year writing course explores the role that violence played in shaping the United States, with an emphasis on the intersections of Native American history and the US-Mexico borderlands. Our class will work together to analyze how a single traumatic event, the 1871 Camp Grant Massacre, produced a variety of competing stories about what the violence at Camp Grant meant, and how it impacted different communities along the US-Mexico border.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 04 |
Hour: 12; Instructor: James Binkoski |
Course Title: What is Knowledge?
Description: Epistemology is the study of knowledge, evidence, and justification. Its questions are of fundamental importance and they are everywhere. Can you know that climate change is a problem even if you are not certain? Can two physicians rationally disagree over whether a patient has cancer? Can you rationally maintain your belief that God exists even though others disagree with you? We'll pursue these questions and more as we study the ins and outs of academic writing.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 05 |
Hour: 10A; Instructor: Eugenie Carabatsos |
Course Title: Understanding Dramatic Writing
Description: What makes for a good story? Whether it's a fictional podcast, television show, film, or play, all dramatic mediums start from the same storytelling fundamentals. This course will explore how writers from each medium craft dramatic stories. Throughout the term, students will discuss and write essays about the essentials of dramatic writing including structures, characters, and worldbuilding. Class will be discussion based and centered around the creative materials and student essays.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 06 |
Hour: 2A; Instructor: Eugenie Carabatsos |
Course Title: Understanding Dramatic Writing
Description: What makes for a good story? Whether it's a fictional podcast, television show, film, or play, all dramatic mediums start from the same storytelling fundamentals. This course will explore how writers from each medium craft dramatic stories. Throughout the term, students will discuss and write essays about the essentials of dramatic writing including structures, characters, and worldbuilding. Class will be discussion based and centered around the creative materials and student essays.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 07 |
Hour: 12; Instructor: Samuel Carter |
Course Title: Border Sounds
Description: If we often understand borders as what visually separates spaces either on maps or in person, what happens when we ask how we might hear them? Where does listening reproduce or repudiate forms of division? This course contemplates the circulation of sounds and bodies by considering a variety of recordings, films, and literary texts that are drawn from across the Americas and that include works such as I'm No Longer Here and Lost Children Archive.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 08 |
Hour: 2; Instructor: Samuel Carter |
Course Title: Border Sounds
Description: If we often understand borders as what visually separates spaces either on maps or in person, what happens when we ask how we might hear them? Where does listening reproduce or repudiate forms of division? This course contemplates the circulation of sounds and bodies by considering a variety of recordings, films, and literary texts that are drawn from across the Americas and that include works such as I'm No Longer Here and Lost Children Archive.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 09 |
Hour: 10A; Instructor: Rebecca Clark |
Course Title: Image and Text
Description: This class will look at a variety of works including ekphrastic poetry, graphic novels, and advertisements that combine images with text to tell stories. How, we will ask, do words and images play with, against, or off of one another when we read these hybrid works? We will learn to analyze, research, and write about them.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 10 |
Hour: 3A; Instructor: William Craig |
Course Title: Wild Hopes: Anarchism in Cultural History
Description: Most of us know very little about anarchism, but we're quick to declare, "It can't work." Our opinions are usually based on anarchies portrayed in stories, movies and other fictions. We'll survey representations of anarchy in canonical and popular culture, tracing our assumptions back to their sources. We'll sharpen our writing, critical thinking and research skills as we appreciate artworks that have kept anarchism alive in our fears and dreams.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 11 |
Hour: 9L; Instructor: Phyllis Deutsch |
Course Title: Gender and the Holocaust
Description: The goal of this course is to explore all aspects of the writing process through the lens of Gender and the Holocaust. Examining three memoirs written in the context of immediate or remembered extremity, you will learn how to organize an argument, incorporate evidence, develop a strong voice, and respond to provocative texts in original ways. One film and secondary sources will enrich our close reading of these extraordinary memoirs.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 12 |
Hour: 10; Instructor: Phyllis Deutsch |
Course Title: Gender and the Holocaust
Description: The goal of this course is to explore all aspects of the writing process through the lens of Gender and the Holocaust. Examining three memoirs written in the context of immediate or remembered extremity, you will learn how to organize an argument, incorporate evidence, develop a strong voice, and respond to provocative texts in original ways. One film and secondary sources will enrich our close reading of these extraordinary memoirs.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 13 |
Hour: 11; Instructor: Christopher Drain |
Course Title: Ethics of the Internet
Description: This course examines ethical and political issues emerging from the rise of ubiquitous computing in the 21st century. Topics may include platform capitalism; algorithmic harms and digital surveillance; and disinformation and echo chambers in social media. We will also explore philosophical aspects of technological mediation, including questions concerning the agency and political status of technical artifacts, to come to terms with whether technology can ever be a morally neutral enterprise.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 14 |
Hour: 2; Instructor: Christopher Drain |
Course Title: Ethics of the Internet
Description: This course examines ethical and political issues emerging from the rise of ubiquitous computing in the 21st century. Topics may include platform capitalism; algorithmic harms and digital surveillance; and disinformation and echo chambers in social media. We will also explore philosophical aspects of technological mediation, including questions concerning the agency and political status of technical artifacts, to come to terms with whether technology can ever be a morally neutral enterprise.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 15 |
Hour: 10A; Instructor: Min Young Godley |
Course Title: Metamorphosis and Otherness
Description: Through reading classic and contemporary texts on metamorphosis, we will examine how bodies and forms of life transform themselves or are transformed by others. Following this motif, we will focus on writing as a form of critical thinking that is continually constructed and reconstructed in a multi-stage process. Aiming to produce change in oneself and others, students will learn how to write literary analysis, engage with scholarly conversations, and give and receive meaningful feedback.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 16 |
Hour: 2A; Instructor: Min Young Godley |
Course Title: Metamorphosis and Otherness
Description: Through reading classic and contemporary texts on metamorphosis, we will examine how bodies and forms of life transform themselves or are transformed by others. Following this motif, we will focus on writing as a form of critical thinking that is continually constructed and reconstructed in a multi-stage process. Aiming to produce change in oneself and others, students will learn how to write literary analysis, engage with scholarly conversations, and give and receive meaningful feedback.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 17 |
Hour: 12; Instructor: Emily Kane |
Course Title: Future Fantasies: Imagining the Posthuman
Description: Science fiction creates worlds in which the seemingly impossible is made real. How might representations of the future address current anxieties raised by technological advances like AI? This course examines the ethics of confronting otherness in science fiction. It also considers the real processes of “othering” across cultures, ethnicities and genders. Through writing and revising three analyses, you will learn to examine and refine your own ideas and form strategies for forming a convincing analysis.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 18 |
Hour: 9L; Instructor: Clara Lewis |
Course Title: Authenticity: Self & Society
Description: Social scientists argue that authenticity is now more highly valued than ever. Realness is idealized. Yet the same social forces that make the performance of authenticity a valued marketing ploy also make us crave connection and self-knowledge. These tensions serve as the starting point for our seminar. In previous terms, students have written for public and academic audiences on subjects including the role of authenticity in education, psychology, medicine, culture, dating norms, and tourism.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 19 |
Hour: 10; Instructor: Clara Lewis |
Course Title: Authenticity: Self & Society
Description: Social scientists argue that authenticity is now more highly valued than ever. Realness is idealized. Yet the same social forces that make the performance of authenticity a valued marketing ploy also make us crave connection and self-knowledge. These tensions serve as the starting point for our seminar. In previous terms, students have written for public and academic audiences on subjects including the role of authenticity in education, psychology, medicine, culture, dating norms, and tourism.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 20 |
Hour: 10; Instructor: Erkki Mackey |
Course Title: Philosophy in Fiction
Description: Is it possible that philosophers, novelists, and physicists are trying to reach the same ends by different means? To answer that question we will pursue four primary objectives: 1) become familiar with surprising and unresolved problems in physics; 2) consider how different philosophical perspectives attempt to resolve those problems; 3) analyze works of fiction from those philosophical perspectives; 4) complete several formal essays and informal writing exercises exploring different points of view. This section of WRIT 5 is reserved for transfer students given Instructor Permission.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 21 |
Hour: 12; Instructor: Douglas Moody |
Course Title: Foundations of Dartmouth
Description: Samson Occom (1723-1792) was a protege of Eleazar Wheelock, and although he was never a student at Dartmouth College, Occom's involvement with the College was crucial. Another trailblazer at Dartmouth was Edward Mitchell, Class of 1828, who was the Dartmouth's first Black student. We consider these foundational stories as they relate to civil rights and educational access for Natives, African Americans, and other minorities at Dartmouth and in the U.S.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 22 |
Hour: 10A; Instructor: Rachel Obbard |
Course Title: Deus Et Machina
Description: This writing course examines social implications of technology in sport. We will look at the dilemma of doping in pro cycling. We will then examine what scholars write about the inclusion of hyperandrogenic athletes in women's sports. The third essay is a research paper examining the ethical dilemma raised by another technology in sport. There are many types of readings, including peer-reviewed papers from the fields of philosophy, bioethics, gender studies, and science and engineering.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 23 |
Hour: 2A; Instructor: Rachel Obbard |
Course Title: Deus Et Machina
Description: This writing course examines social implications of technology in sport. We will look at the dilemma of doping in pro cycling. We will then examine what scholars write about the inclusion of hyperandrogenic athletes in women's sports. The third essay is a research paper examining the ethical dilemma raised by another technology in sport. There are many types of readings, including peer-reviewed papers from the fields of philosophy, bioethics, gender studies, and science and engineering.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 24 |
Hour: 10A; Instructor: Katherine Riley |
Course Title: Word Meaning in Context
Description: We each know thousands of words. Normally we use them without stumbling over meaning; we must, to some degree, or we wouldn't speak at all. But sometimes we're halted by interpretations or implications heretofore unremarked. What does a word mean? What are its contexts of use? Through juxtapositions of linguistic, scientific, philosophical, cultural, artistic, AI, and other perspectives, we construct complex ideas with our own words and refine their clarity and cohesiveness for our audiences.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 25 |
Hour: 3A; Instructor: Ellen Rockmore |
Course Title: Free Speech on the College Campus
Description: Who is allowed to say what on college campuses? This course examines the philosophical foundations of the right to free speech and why it is considered essential to liberty and democracy. We will also study the legal parameters of the first amendment, particularly as it pertains to "hate speech." We will then turn to the specific case of the university, where values such as equality, inclusion, pedagogy and academic freedom may sometimes be in tension.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 26 |
Hour: 11; Instructor: Sarah Smith |
Course Title: Food for Thought
Description: Brillat-Savarin wrote "tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Indeed, food choices can reflect our families, religious beliefs, ethics, and emotions. Our decisions may be influenced by the media, our peers, or simply by convenience. What we eat also influences how food is grown, and therefore has wider reaching effects, such as on the environment, the economy, and public health. Readings include personal stories, popular press, and scholarly papers.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 27 |
Hour: 12; Instructor: Sarah Smith |
Course Title: Food for Thought
Description: Brillat-Savarin wrote "tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are." Indeed, food choices can reflect our families, religious beliefs, ethics, and emotions. Our decisions may be influenced by the media, our peers, or simply by convenience. What we eat also influences how food is grown, and therefore has wider reaching effects, such as on the environment, the economy, and public health. Readings include personal stories, popular press, and scholarly papers.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 28 |
Hour: 2; Instructor: Jessica Smolin |
Course Title: Paranoia
Description: This course examines films and short stories about individuals who struggle to make sense of the world around them, often coming to believe there are forces at work beyond their control. We look at classic paranoid thrillers as well as narratives of madness and dystopia. Our close readings of these narratives will be essential for our main task, to learn how to develop your observations and ideas into carefully argued and precisely written work.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 29 |
Hour: 10; Instructor: Amanda Wetsel |
Course Title: Built Environments
Description: We will write as a way to understand the built environment: How do buildings shape our lives? How do values, hierarchies, and inequalities materialize in the built environment? How do architectural spaces affect how people understand themselves and relate to each other? We will analyze spaces at Dartmouth and interviews with Dartmouth students as well as texts written by architects, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 30 |
Hour: 11; Instructor: Amanda Wetsel |
Course Title: Built Environments
Description: We will write as a way to understand the built environment: How do buildings shape our lives? How do values, hierarchies, and inequalities materialize in the built environment? How do architectural spaces affect how people understand themselves and relate to each other? We will analyze spaces at Dartmouth and interviews with Dartmouth students as well as texts written by architects, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 31 |
Hour: 10; Instructor: Leigh York |
Course Title: Reimagining Fairy Tales
Description: This course explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century authors (Nalo Hopkinson, Angela Carter, Anne Sexton, and others) have adapted and transformed the Grimm fairy tales to address questions of race, gender, and power. You will learn about the ways that fairy tales can reimagine the present and transform the future, while developing strategies of expression, argument, and critique that will prepare you to think and write effectively at Dartmouth and beyond.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 32 |
Hour: 11; Instructor: Leigh York |
Course Title: Reimagining Fairy Tales
Description: This course explores how twentieth- and twenty-first-century authors (Nalo Hopkinson, Angela Carter, Anne Sexton, and others) have adapted and transformed the Grimm fairy tales to address questions of race, gender, and power. You will learn about the ways that fairy tales can reimagine the present and transform the future, while developing strategies of expression, argument, and critique that will prepare you to think and write effectively at Dartmouth and beyond.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 33 |
Hour: 11; Instructor: Rosetta Young |
Course Title: The Novels of Sally Rooney
Description: In this course, we will read and write about the novelistic oeuvre of the Irish millennial novelist Sally Rooney. Over the span of the course, students will read all four of Rooney's novels. Students will build critical authority about her novels through reading, discussing, and--most of all--writing about her work.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 34 |
Hour: 2; Instructor: Rosetta Young |
Course Title: The Novels of Sally Rooney
Description: In this course, we will read and write about the novelistic oeuvre of the Irish millennial novelist Sally Rooney. Over the span of the course, students will read all four of Rooney's novels. Students will build critical authority about her novels through reading, discussing, and--most of all--writing about her work.
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No required textbooks available |
Section 35 |
Hour: 2A; Instructor: James Godley |
Course Title: Truth in Fiction
Description: Powerful writing often involves the effort of thought to discover hidden truths in stories, rhetoric, fantasies, myths, and dreams--the fictions of everyday life. In explorations of short stories, films, and theoretical essays, we'll work together on such issues as the relationship between authenticity and acting, the painful illusions of love, the ways that trauma distorts reality, how society’s obsession with achievement leads to burnout, and how dreams convey messages from the unconscious mind.
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No required textbooks available |
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