Writing & Culture Seminar

Writing and Culture is an interactive seminar, enrolling no more than 15 students, that should be taken in the first year. The Writing and Culture Seminar helps students develop their ability to:

• experiment with diverse strategies for planning, drafting, and revising writing;
• adapt writing to respond to, engage, and persuade diverse audiences;
• employ rhetorical strategies for analyzing, designing, and communicating in writing and other forms of media;
• engage in writing as a form of thinking, inquiry, and learning.

Core curriculum learning goals

As part of the core curriculum, writing 1150 also addresses the learning goals common to all core courses at Georgetown, providing students with opportunities to:

• Participate creatively in an intellectual community
• Address complex issues and problems
• Develop a worldview that is both intellectually grounded and personally compelling
• Engage responsively in the world 

Core Beliefs

The Writing 1150 learning goals (above) were developed through a collaborative process in which writing program faculty reflected on the core beliefs we all share about what writing is and what work writing does in the world. The following graphic sums up the results of those conversations.