Eng 101 Course Description

Several of you developed course descriptions as part of your pedagogical probe. This assignment formally tasks you with doing so for the first-year course that’s likely furthest from your literary comfort zone.

For the class period immediately following break (March 15), develop a course description for an Eng 101 class. To do so, you need to

• Review Edward White’s distinctions between writing and literature courses.
• Review the general course description for Eng 101.
• Familiarize yourself with the Emory First-Year Writing Program’s outcomes, core activities, and key terms, all of which appear on the first-year writing website.
• Begin to understand the role of portfolios in writing programs/courses.
• Review drafts of Eng 101 course descriptions for 2016-2017 developed under the programmatic rubric outlined above.
• Foreground the writing/making students will be doing in your course.

Post the first draft of your course description to your website and be ready to discuss your rhetorical choices in class.