When people in academic circles use the term “discipline,” they are often referring to the rhetorical methods, conventions, concerns, and ways of knowing of a specific field. Seminar in Composition: Exploring the Disciplines is an introductory course that offers students the opportunity to explore a particular field while improving as writers.
Students in this course can expect to develop their understanding of how they and others use writing to interpret and share experience, affect behavior, and position themselves in the world. Specific reading and writing assignments may vary from section to section, but student writing will be the primary focus in all sections. The course is designed to help students become more engaged, imaginative, and disciplined composers.
The teachers of SC: Exploring the Disciplines use their own disciplinary lens to select the content and design the composition assignments in this course. By engaging with a particular theme, combined with reading and writing practices that expose students to a particular disciplinary approach, students are invited to explore how practitioners in a range of disciplines use writing to communicate, to think, to express, to make and to articulate discoveries. The sections of Seminar in Composition: Exploring the Disciplines will vary in their subject matter and will reflect the instructor’s disciplinary expertise. Check the notes section in PeopleSoft to see the disciplinary focus of a particular section.