CHID 250 A: Special Topics: Introduction to the History of Ideas

"WRITING IN PUBLIC IN THE CONTEXT OF TRUMPISM" DEVELOP STUDENTS' ABILITIES TO CREATIVELY AND EFFECTIVELY ADOPT A RANGE OF PUBLIC-FACING GENRES AND MEDIA, FROM SOCIAL MEDIA TO PRINT- BASED FORMS TO MULTI-MODAL TEXTS. IN OTHER WORDS, THIS CLASS IS FOCUSED ON PUBLICLY-ENGAGED WRITING FOR MULTIPLE AUDIENCES AND PURPOSES. IN THE TIME OF TRUMPISM? TO WRITE EFFECTIVELY IN THIS MOMENT, WE WILL INTERROGATE THE THEORETICAL CONCEPT OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE AS WELL AS SITUATE AND HISTORICIZE CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC DISCOURSE AND DEBATES. THE ULTIMATE AIM? TO BETTER WRITE OUR WAY TO SOCIAL CHANGE.