May be repeated once for credit. A capstone writing seminar in nonfiction prose. Students present their seminar papers publicly before an audience of students, IUS faculty, and professionals outside of IUS who are knowledgeable about the topics. Description of project as assigned by instructor consenting to direct it. Individual critical projects worked out with faculty member.
Credit varies with scope of the project.
Presents argument as a process of inquiry. Applies critical and creative thinking to analyzing and composing effective argument. Addresses contexts and ideologies as a component of audience receptivity to ideas. Writers form and test ideas from pluralistic perspectives on controversial issues about which reasonable people disagree, including culture-sensitive issues like gender, race, ethnicity, etc. This course emphasizes a single aspect or a selected topic of composition and the writing of nonfiction prose.