Porter Core Courses: Writing Across the Arts

The Porter Core Courses provide a framework in which students encounter the work of artists and writers working from a variety of cultural perspectives and in a variety of media.  Students respond with critical and creative essays and a final creative project or performance in any medium.

The Porter Core Courses are writing courses, an orientation to University level work, and an opportunity for all entering Frosh to share during their first term an encounter with the same artists, cultures, and ideas.  The small Core Course seminars and group tutorials provide exceptional access to the instructor and close attention to students' critical and creative writing.  A 'laboratory' section with an Instructional Assistant puts the students in contact with experienced upper-division peers who provide important insights and information about the course and about university work in general.  Small class sizes encourage students to get to know a cross section of their peers.

Porter 80A "Writing Across Arts" (Porter core course fulfilling the C1 General Education requirement):

Seminar explores rhetorical principles and conventions of university discourse, providing intensive practice in analytical writing, critical reading, and speaking. Students study, discuss, and write about social, political, and aesthetic issues reaised by selected works of literature and art in a variety of media.

Porter 80B "INTRO Discourse: Arts":

A seminar that explores the intersections between rhetoric (persuasion) and inquiry (investigation) and hones strategies for effective reading, writing, speaking, and research. Students read, discuss research, and write about social, political, and aesthetic issues raised by selected works of literature and art in a variety of media.
(Gen Ed Codes: T4-Humanities and Arts) The Staff