Sample Syllabus 1: Syllabus Philosophy and Assignments at a Glance
By Melissa Texidor
My class aims to have students focus on communities that they are a part of and are interested in and engaging with important conversations that these communities are having. I try to choose a reading every week that distinctly addresses and confronts preconceived notions of language, setting up more opportunities for student-centered class discussion to deconstruct these ideologies. Seeing students realize that they have true stakes in their writing, especially within their communities, is what I look forward to most when teaching this course.
This class is designed to center genre translation at its core with the first assignment sequence prioritizing investigating/examining genres used and composed by a specific discourse or language community that they are a part of. The second assignment sequence focuses on an issue that is significant to a particular discourse/language community and the genres utilized by the community to argue against this issue.
Assignments at a glance:
