Courses: BYU
First-Year WritingWriting 150 is designed to introduce students to college-level writing, reading, and research with an emphasis on argumentation and rhetorical analysis. WRTG 150 pays particular attention to the ways arguments work within discourse communities. Individual sections are structured around a focused topic area (e.g., globalization, mass media, religion in America, the environment) and require extensive writing, reading, and research in the topic area.
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Advanced WritingEnglish 311 prepares students to write to both academic and mass audiences about the arts. It concentrates not on specific critical approaches but on the functions, meanings, values, and qualities of art and such rhetorical issues as audience, argument, voice, and style. Although the course builds on the fundamental writing skills acquired in first-year writing courses, the primary concentration is on teaching students to participate intelligently in their individual disciplinary dialogue.
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Creative writingEnglish 218 focuses on the art of writing literary work among various genres including fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The course focuses on the elements of writing: words and meaning, point of view, voice, structure and form, imagery, figurative language, allusion, and symbolism. Specifically, the course asks students to experiment within the literary arts by applying the elements of writing to the three genres.
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YOGA |
English 1010 teaches rhetorical knowledge and skills, focusing on critical reading, writing, and thinking. The course introduces writing for specific academic audiences and situations and emphasizes writing as a process through multiple drafts and revisions. In addition to major essay assignments, the course may include in-class writing and collaboration, research writing, journals, and portfolios.
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STAC 109 weaves a practice of the asanas in Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga with workshops on breath, bandhas, drishti, alignment, and yoga philosophy. It is assumed that each practitioner will come to appreciate yoga in his or her own way. Common goals we will strive for include: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of basic yoga principles and practices 2. Learn basic sequencing and alignment for an Ashtanga Vinyasa practice 3. Develop a yoga practice that supports and honors your body
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