Writing the Future

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Use literary study to develop skills for careful reading and clear writing
• Understand the aims and methods of intellectual discourse
• Express themselves in a number of academic writing forms
• Evaluate different viewpoints
• Identify and understand various formal characteristics of Utopian science fiction
• Demonstrate understanding of the cultural and historical contexts in which various literary and filmic works have been created
• Read and discuss science fiction on the levels of both form and content

These goals (specific to this course) operate within the general framework of the Writing 20 curriculum here at Duke:

GENERAL WRITING 20 GOALS

• Engage with the work of others
• Articulate a position
• Situate writing within specific contexts

WRITING 20 PRACTICES

• Researching
• Workshopping
• Revising
• Editing

Writing 20 is the one course all undergraduates at Duke take, reflecting the centrality of writing in all academic practice.  For more information about Writing 20’s goals and practices, please visit http://uwp.aas.duke.edu/writing20/students/goals.html.