Mini Course Syllabus: Digital Submission
Designing for Public Writing
Description
Higher Education (especially the Humanities) is getting hammered in politics, mainstream discourse, and austere institutional policies. How can we write, as scholar-teachers and with students, in/against that (main)stream?
Objectives
| Goal |
|---|
| > Express oneself as a writer and as a teacher of writing |
| > Exercise a plain language style of writing |
| > Explore publication spaces for public writing |
Resources
Eric Hayot’s The Elements of Academic Style: Writing for the Humanities.
Brenda Miller and Suzanne Paola’s Tell it Slant, Third Edition.
Public Humanities.
Activities
- Writer’s Workshops / Body Doubling: no feedback or peer review, just check-ins and quiet accountability for the writing process)
- Readings (small, public): no feedback, just reading, listening, and snap-claps
- Group creation of a digital one-shot journal issue or of an analog zine collection.
Assessment
The final project, either the one-shot journal issue or the zine collection. Either way, publication needs to have a public audience and a public launch.
Calendar
Twice monthly meetings, alternating workshops with the readings, supported asynchronously by selected readings from the course resources. Could also involve asynchronous sharing of drafts.
“Policies”
- An emphasis on the importance of showing up and doing work ‘in the space’, wherever that space might be (analog or digital)
- Learning to let go (more) of personal judgment, procrastination, and expectation, all in favor of doing ‘the work.’
- This is YOUR mini-course syllabus. Do not get overwhelmed or discouraged by the work because YOU are in charge.
- At anytime, you may revise/update your syllabus to reflect modified objectives, newly found resources, ideas for new activities, modified calendar, etc.
- The CoLab is your partner in this course. In addition to reviewing all the syllabi to find opportunities for shared programming, group meetings, etc. we are available to brainstorm your ideas, rethink your goals, come up with activity ideas, etc. Feel free to make an appointment if you need to talk.
- Since this is YOUR syllabus, feel free to share it with anyone you like (beyond your “Syllabus Cohort”) to get feedback or ideas.
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