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Academic Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Academic Catalog 2024-2025

LW100 Thinking, Making, Writing: Using Words with Clarity and Flair 3 CR


An introduction to art writing. Six to eight writing assignments are designed to develop deep thinking skills. Course includes expository and critical essays, with some requiring research. Students practice close reading skills with outstanding pieces of prose, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction selected for the artist. In-class writing exercises are designed to generate first material for essays. Course includes weekly critiques and re-visioning first drafts of writing work. Required library sessions focus on information literacy and research needed for the final Art Research Paper. [Formerly known as Written Communication]

Lecture/Seminar

All College Required
Fall/Spring