WRIT 8560 is also offered in Fall 2024
WRIT 8560 is also offered in Spring 2024
Spring 2019 | WRIT 8560 Section 001: Seminar in Writing Studies -- Actor-Network Theory Approaches to Writing (66106)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F only
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Nolte Ctr for Continuing Educ 235
- Enrollment Status:
Open (2 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topics may include literacy, genre, history of writing, narrative theory and practice, writing as textual practice. Topics vary. See the Class Schedule.
- Class Notes:
- For Course description, please see http://classinfo.umn.edu/?rossj001+WRIT8560+Spring2019
- Class Description:
- Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has been developed most systematically by Bruno Latour. It is a "radically empirical" approach that is built around the notions of actors and the networks with which they are connected. A central innovation is that ANT treats nonhuman and human actors as equal participants, and that inscriptions (texts of any sort) are also actors. More properly ANT is a method or heuristic, rather than a theory, for describing and analyzing complicated social, environmental, rhetorical, medical, and communication contexts. That analysis may lead to theoretical conclusions or generalizations.
This seminar will examine how ANT has been applied to business and technical communication, science studies, especially environmental studies, and social organizations.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66106/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 5 December 2018
ClassInfo Links - Spring 2019 Writing Studies Classes