English 182: Multimodal Composition

Location and Time: MW 10:30–12:20 pm; SIG 230

Instructor: Sarah Nickel Moore

Office: Zoom

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 12:30–2:30 and by appointment

Email: srmoore2@uw.edu

Office Hours Zoom link here.

Class Google Folder here.

Link to PressBooks here.

Useful Information

You can access a full copy of the course syllabus here.

You can download the Course Outcomes here.

For your weekly assignments, go to the module page on the left-hand tab and click on the current week.

Overview

Welcome to Multimodal Composition! The purpose of this course is to refine your writing skills through classroom discussion, critical readings, and multimodal composition assignments.

For this special section of 182, we will be teaming up with the UW Library to publish your work with PressBooks. You can find out more in the PressBooks section of the syllabus.

The theme of our class will be Modern Monsters. We will be using Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s essay “Monster Culture: Seven Theses” as a framework for our class. In his essay, Cohen lays out seven different definitions for monsters in today’s culture, along with examples from literature, movies, and history.

In class, we will be engaging with various texts to explore how we encounter monsters in literature, movies, songs, poetry, and more. We will discuss these encounters in class all together and in our small groups, and then work individually on our small assignments and major projects. All discussions and assignments in this class are designed to help you develop critical thinking skills as you engage with theory and texts and composition skills as you apply your knowledge to various assignments.

Course Schedule

Here is an outline of dates and lessons for our class. Be sure to check back frequently, as dates and assignments may change.

Download a copy of the course schedule here.