Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: THE HISTORY OF THE END OF THE WORLD

Department: First-Year Writing Intensive

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course explores understandings of the apocalypse in world history. Students will produce a collaborative website featuring timelines, Tumblr archives, Wikipedia historiographies, and Prezis. Reading topics range from Mayan prophecy to zombie fiction. We focus on six key writing skills - mastery of grammar, concision, argument, structure, synthesis, and rewriting.