EDLT 218 - Exploring Issues of Sustainability through Writing

Description:
Issues of sustainability (social, political, environmental, and economic human practices) will be explored through a “flipped classroom.” Writer’s workshop will be used during class, with course information and readings presented through digital and print means. Course will be offered every year (Spring, Summer).

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

Identify sustainable issues in communities, society, and other contexts
Describe issues of sustainability, particularly social, political, environmental, and economic human practices
Demonstrate processes, purposes, and practical aspects of writing about sustainability in a workshop format
Write on issues of sustainability using traits of effective writing with the support of narrative, informational, argumentative, and poetry mentor texts
Demonstrate strategies for finding, selecting, and refining topics about sustainability for writing
Demonstrate components of writing process and its recursive, interactive, and collaborative nature
Demonstrate traits of effective writing (e.g. development of ideas, organization, voice, word choice, sentence structure, and conventions) through writing
Demonstrate how purpose, audience, mode, form and perspective shape writing through writing

Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
2/1/18

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