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Critical Writing and Ethics
The three critical writing courses and the Social Ethics course provide CPS students
with a solid foundation in critical interpretation, argument construction, and ethics.
Students receive a thorough immersion in interdisciplinary methodology and investigation,
with the course reading lists offering a diverse and challenging exploration of traditional
and contemporary thought. Through their coursework, students gain historical and cultural
perspective and develop the critical tools needed to assess and act on a wide spectrum of
societal issues. In the area of critical interpretation and composition, they receive a solid
grounding for moving on to the work in their individual majors. They acquire a knowledge of
research strategies and conventions and a knowledge of how and why research matters in
critical composition. In the process they investigate a substantive body of knowledge
representing central currents of thought from a diverse and encompassing range of ideological,
cultural, and ethnic perspectives.
Syllabus Prospectus
IS 307 - Experience and Critical Writing
IS 308 - Advanced Expository Writing
IS 304 - Social Ethics
IS 300 - The Critical Thinking Seminar
IS 307 - Experience and Critical Writing
This course focuses on written communication, critical interpretation, and an investigation
of a substantive body of diverse writings. Students explore connections between critical
analysis, personal experience, and historically situated textual material. They are offered
an opportunity to master university level grammatical elements, research conventions, and
rhetorical strategies. In the process they are presented with a significant body of diverse
ideologies and ethnic perspectives and the critical tools with which to interpret and confront them.
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IS 308 - Advanced Expository Writing
The course builds on the elements of IS 307. In Advanced Expository Writing, students encounter an
in-depth reading list which offers the challenges necessary to experience the practical and theoretical
issues embedded in the interpretive reading, writing, and research. In their readings, students examine
relationships between history, social and economic environment, cultural and ethnic background, and
rhetorical strategies. They encounter and examine argument modes, and they continue to work to improve
their command of grammar and other technical composition elements. They also experience the course’s
particular accent on research as preparation for challenges they will encounter in their major coursework.
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IS 304 - Social Ethics
Students apply ethical principles to contemporary issues as they arise in organizations and personal lives. They draw on major ethical schools of thought and on strategies of logical argument to address moral dilemmas.
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IS 300 - The Critical Thinking Seminar
This one unit course, taken late in the student’s degree program, revisits
and advances the course challenges of IS 308. Students are confronted with
substantive interpretive issues, which they address in their written work.
This course builds on their knowledge of essay construction, rhetorical
strategy, and grammatical and research issues.
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