ENG 3850 - Writing About Culture and Society

• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the complexity of elements important to members of another culture in relation to its history, values, politics, communication styles, economy, or beliefs and practices.
• Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of cultural differences in verbal and non-verbal communication and to negotiate a shared understanding based on those differences.
• Students will be able to ask complex questions of other cultures and to write about them in ways that reflect multiple cultural perspectives.
• Students will be able to use writing to analyze ways that cultures persuade, both within the culture and to outsiders, based on particular historical or social relationships.
• Students will be able to analyze a variety of text types (e.g. print, digital, audio and other cultural artifacts) and genres for audience, purpose, and context.
• Students will be able to interpret intercultural experience from their own and others¿ worldview and to act in a supportive manner that recognizes the feelings of another cultural group.
• Students will be able to use formal and informal writing to articulate insights about their own cultural insights and biases.
• Students will be able to identify and write persuasively about how at least one culture uses rhetoric to engage in cultural preservation.
• Students will be able to initiate and develop interactions with culturally different others while suspending judgment in valuing their interactions with culturally different others.