HONS 110-01/02 Honors Academic Writing: The Rhetoric of Service and Community Engagement
Professor Jesslyn Collins-Frohlich
TR 9:25 – 10:40 a.m., T 10:50 – 11:40 a.m. (Section 01)
TR 12:15 – 1:30 p.m., R 1:40 – 2:30 p.m. (Section 02)

What does it mean to engage a community, to serve the people in it? How are our ideas of service and citizenship shaped by public rhetoric or narratives of power? How do community organizations negotiate the rhetoric about social issues and the people they serve? Where do you, as an Honors student, fit into this larger discussion? This course uses reflection, and research to begin to answer these questions and understand your own Honors Engaged experience. Class readings and discussions provide critical frameworks and analytical skills, and direct engagement with a community partner or issue gives valuable opportunities for service learning. These frameworks and experiences will be synthesized in several essays, a multimodal project, and reflective activities. For example, you will begin the semester by writing your own engagement narrative, which interrogates how you came to your current understanding of civic engagement and service. In the second half of the semester, you will take on written assignments that ask you to synthesize class discussions, research, community engagement and personal reflection for a number of different audiences and modalities.

This course fulfills the College’s General Education First Year Writing requirement

HONS 110-03/04 Honors Academic Writing: What’s the Story? Analyzing the Narratives of Place
Professor Elizabeth Baker
MWF 10:00 – 10:50 a.m., fourth hour asynchronous (Section 01)
MWF 11:00 – 11:50 a.m., fourth hour asynchronous (Section 02)

One way of understanding the nature of analysis is to think in terms of narrative. Using this framework, we will see how virtually anything, no matter its form, can be analyzed by asking what stories it tells, particularly as we move beyond obvious narratives to discover others embedded within it. Our particular
focus will be on ideas about place, which we will consider from a broad range of perspectives – general and specific, literal and figurative, abstract and concrete. The course is designed to help students improve critical thinking skills through reading carefully and responding thoughtfully to a variety of texts. Assignments will steer students through the processes of response, analysis, argument, and synthesis of texts (including research and documentation), while also addressing basic elements of effective written communication: focus and structure, development, style.

This course fulfills the College’s General Education First Year Writing requirement

HONS 110-05 Honors Academic Writing: Sustainable Futures
Professor Anton Vander Zee
TR 3:05 – 4:20 p.m., fourth hour asynchronous

This course is about sustainable futures: your world’s, your community’s, and your own. Although loosely themed around questions of what it means to live and work sustainably, this is fundamentally a course about writing: analyzing it, understanding its contexts, exploring its modalities, and composing it in various environments. More specifically, this course asks you to think about writing as a process, a series of conscious choices used to craft an appropriate response to the variety of tasks and situations that you will encounter as a writer. In short, this course is aimed at making you aware of your writing as writing. One way that we will cultivate this awareness is by engaging scholarly texts about writing and undertaking a variety of projects that ask you to understand and deploy important concepts you can use in the classroom and beyond such as reading like a writer, literacies, the rhetorical situation, disciplinarity and genre. Sustainability, then, enters the picture less as a set of need-toknow facts and concepts and more of a flexible guide that will help you focus your approach to the major projects in this course, all of which will relate to artifacts, debates, and academic conversations of your own choosing.

This course fulfills the College’s General Education First Year Writing requirement

HONS 110-06 Honors Academic Writing
Professor Simon Lewis
MWF 11:00 – 11:50 a.m., F 12:00 – 12:50 p.m.

This course will develop your abilities to produce carefully and appropriately crafted argumentative essays for a range of academic disciplines, and reading and responding to a selection of short stories. Because informed writing is always better than uninformed writing, time will be devoted to explanation and discussion of general content as well as to explanation and discussion of writing techniques. Because the College of Charleston considers diversity to be one of its core values, and because attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion is one of the cross-cutting themes of the College’s Strategic Plan, most of the content of the course will specifically cover issues of race and African Americans’ contributions to local, regional, national and global culture. Wherever possible I will seek to demonstrate the relationship between writing, knowledge and power, specifically showing how writing shapes the world around us, and our sense of ourselves as social individuals in that world.

This course fulfills the College’s General Education First Year Writing requirement

HONS 110-07 Honors Academic Writing
Professor Terence Bowers
TR 9:25 – 10:40 a.m., fourth hour asynchronous

This course will develop your abilities to produce carefully and appropriately crafted argumentative essays for a range of academic disciplines, and reading and responding to a selection of short stories. Because informed writing is always better than uninformed writing, time will be devoted to explanation and discussion of general content as well as to explanation and discussion of writing techniques. Because the College of Charleston considers diversity to be one of its core values, and because attention to diversity, equity, and inclusion is one of the cross-cutting themes of the College’s Strategic Plan, most of the content of the course will specifically cover issues of race and African Americans’ contributions to local, regional, national and global culture. Wherever possible I will seek to demonstrate the relationship between writing, knowledge and power, specifically showing how writing shapes the world around us, and our sense of ourselves as social individuals in that world.

This course fulfills the College’s General Education First Year Writing requirement