The Craft of Writing – Worldviews across Image-Text Genres

In this reading and composition course we will increase our verbal/visual literacy and
writing skills by guided prompts and workshops.  Thematically, our reading and writing
will explore worldviews and ethics as they are expressed by image-text hybrid genres
and eclectic examples therein, focusing on narratology, method, and meaning.  Through
close reading, we will inquire into the nature of writing as an analytical, creative, and
sensory medium, and especially consider how non-orthographic notions of textuality
and theories of multimodality invite us to expand our understanding of how writerly
expression shapes what is known about the world, ourselves, and our role within it,
revealing written worlds as a mirror and guide for what the world and we can be. 
Extensive peer review of our own writing and collaborative discussion of texts forms the
basis of this class, culminating in a total of 32 pages of writing.