Syllabus
Each course day in WCC focuses on a specific topic or skill set. Click the link for an introduction, as well as the relevant readings, media, and reflection questions.
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How this Class Works
Jan 12 -
The World Is Too Much With Us
Jan 14 -
Close Reading
Jan 16 -
Annihilation and Climate Change
Jan 21 -
Pattern Recognition
Jan 23 -
What is Nature?
Jan 26 -
What Is Ecology?
Jan 28 -
Writing About Reading
Jan 30 -
Place-Based Nature Writing
Feb 02 -
Listening to the Earth
Feb 04 -
What Is Workshop and How to Do It / Small Group Workshop Paper 1 (Session 1)
Feb 06 -
Small Group Workshop, Paper 1 (Session 2)
Feb 09 -
Environmental Justice and Migration
Feb 11 -
What Do We Owe Nature?
Feb 13 -
Who counts? The Lives of Animals
Feb 16 -
Speaker Prof. Jason McLachlan
Polycrisis and The Disruption of the Human Ecological Niche
Feb 18 -
Disaster Stories
Feb 20 -
Mitigation, Adaptation, Denial?
Feb 23 -
Speaker Prof. Dan Miller
Climate Science in Public
Feb 25 -
Will God Forgive Us?
Feb 27 -
Confession
Mar 02 -
Speaker TBD
Laudauto Si'
Mar 04 -
Pitching
Mar 06 -
Pitch Workshop, Session 1
Mar 16 -
Speaker Prof. Dan Johnson and Prof. Thurston Miller
Research Session With Librarians
Mar 18 -
Pitch Workshop, Session 2
Mar 20 -
Individual Discussions / Writing Session 1
Mar 23 -
Argumentative Structure v. Narrative Structure
Mar 25 -
Individual Discussions / Writing Session 2
Mar 27 -
Outline Workshop
Mar 30 -
Citation and Plagiarism
Apr 01 -
Transitions, Inversions, Variation
Apr 08 -
Revision
Apr 10 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 1
Apr 13 -
Syntax as Style
Apr 15 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 2
Apr 17 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 3
Apr 20 -
Cohesion
Apr 22 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 4
Apr 24 -
Final Paper Workshop Session 5
Apr 27 -
Presentations
Apr 29