Catalog Description:
This course, ideally taken by students in the spring semester of their first year, invites students to explore their calling within a discipline through compassionate listening and speech events. Students will develop voice and audience awareness using appropriate rhetoric and technology. Prerequisite: WRIT 135 or WRIT 140.
Course Overview:
How does voice relate to vocation?
What does it mean to speak confidently? To be silent? To listen
compassionately? To be a servant leader in a global context? How do we
construct and communicate meaning in partnership with a live audience?
This course will address these questions that build on the skills developed in first-year writing courses particularly quality of thought, organization of ideas, and rhetorical strategies. Although it is a course that provides foundational skills transferable to all disciplines, we will explore voice in vocation through the lens of our major disciplines. The speech assignments in this course, then, will provide opportunities for you to explore your calling, while also helping you develop the skills for effective, audience-oriented communication.
- Teacher: Christopher Harris
- Teacher: Emily North