College Seminar (101-7-20)

Instructors

Oladotun Babatope Ayobade

Meeting Info

University Library 3322: Tues, Thurs 9:30AM - 10:50AM

Overview of class

Skilled writers paint vivid images with their words, as do compelling thinkers. Description is a practice of carefully evoking the observable properties of a thing, event, text, or cultural phenomena for a reader that may not share said experience. This course introduces students to the craft of thick description of cultural artefacts and happenings that would serve them in a plethora of academic and creative pursuits at and beyond the university. Students will also learn to mobilize description as evidence in academic writing and as a means for forging persuasive arguments. Course exercises will include in a combination of ethnography assignments; close reading of objects, events and ephemera, classroom readings; peer feedback; and, crucially, the patient art of revising one's writing. The craft of description should prepare students for work in a multitude of disciplines and intellectual curiosities.

Class Attributes

WCAS College Seminar