WRIT 3152W is also offered in Spring 2025
WRIT 3152W is also offered in Fall 2024
WRIT 3152W is also offered in Spring 2024
WRIT 3152W is also offered in Fall 2023
WRIT 3152W is also offered in Spring 2023
WRIT 3152W is also offered in Fall 2022
WRIT 3152W is also offered in Spring 2022
WRIT 3152W is also offered in Fall 2021
Spring 2024 | WRIT 3152W Section 001: Writing on Issues of Science and Technology (52702)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Peik Hall 155
- Enrollment Status:
Open (23 of 24 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Science and technology are key parts of nearly every aspect of our lives, and, just as important, science and technology are highly debated topics in political, economic, social, public, and personal spheres. For example, consider debates regarding genetically modified foods, space exploration, vaccines, oil pipelines, or clean drinking water. This course will push you to consider the ways you think, feel, and write about science and technology. This course will ask you to examine the relationship between language and science and technology. We will spend the semester reading about science and technology, in addition to studying and practicing different strategies, techniques, and approaches for communicating about science and technology. Using rhetorical studies as a foundation, this course will give you the tools to more effectively engage with scientific and technological topics and debates. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, this course aims to foster engagement with scientific and technological conversations. Put simply, students should leave this course caring about scientific and technological issues and wanting to participate in the conversations that surround such issues.
- Class Description:
- Ethical, social, and political challenges created by science/technology. Analyzes persuasion strategies through which experts, political decision-makers, and citizens meet these challenges. Bioscience controversies such as cloning, organ transplantation. Controversies over pollution, ozone depletion.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52702/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 10 December 2008
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