Environmental issues involve diverse decision-makers and stakeholders. This course will focus on how to understand, engage, and persuade the audiences that we want to reach. Students will study the techniques of classical rhetoric, mass communication, and scientific writing as a foundation for improving their own writing. This intensive writing course is designed to develop each student’s abilities in careful reading, argument construction, persuasive writing, and substantive editing. The course aims to challenge and support students at a variety of levels of confidence and expertise in writing. Students can expect to receive constructive feedback from both the instructor and other students through weekly writing workshops. For some of these assignments, if they choose, students may write on topics related to their candidacy paper or thesis.
In-person Class Format: This course is offered fully in-person. Students should expect to attend in-person for all class periods. We cannot promise to offer remote attendance options due to illness or other absences. Students should strategize methods for getting notes from class when attendance is not possible.
CLASS SCHEDULE: Wednesday nights, 6pm-10pm