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The Scriptorium: Love — WRI2155.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 2
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. Our learning outcomes include
Writing

The Scriptorium: Masks and Metamorphoses — WRI2162.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
“We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.” ― André Berthiaume The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or
Writing

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.01, section 1

Fall 2023
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay
Writing

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay
Writing

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.02, section 2

Spring 2023
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for our analytical writing. As we write in various
Writing

The Scriptorium: Monsters! — WRI2159.01, section 1

Spring 2023
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 2
This Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for our analytical writing. As we write in various
Writing

The Scriptorium: Multiverses, Utopias, and Dreamscapes, Oh My! — WRI2163.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay structures
Writing

The Scriptorium: Multiverses, Utopias, and Dreamscapes, Oh My! — WRI2163.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay structures
Writing

The Scriptorium: Studio Ghibli — WRI2169.01, section 1

Spring 2026
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai<

Writing

The Scriptorium: Studio Ghibli — WRI2169.02, section 2

Spring 2026
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai<

Writing

The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — WRI2153.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” functions as a class for writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we practice various essay structures with
Writing

The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — LIT2399.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
Our scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning writers and for those students who want to improve their essay skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing probatively, as essai means “trial” or “attempt.” This class will explore anthropologist Mary Douglas’s idea: “Just as it is true that
Literature

The Scriptorium: The Body and Society — LIT2399.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
Our scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning writers and for those students who want to improve their essay skills. We will read to write and write to read, following the originator of the form, Montaigne. Much of our time will be occupied with writing probatively, as essai means “trial” or “attempt.” This class will explore anthropologist Mary
Literature

The Scriptorium: The Short Story — WRI2161.01) (new course code as of 10/20/2023

Spring 2024
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and productive strategies for analytical writing. As we write in various essay structures
Writing

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 1 - LIT2252.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — Section 2 - LIT2252.02

Spring 2015
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — WRI2151.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Writing

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — WRI2151.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” serves as a class for writers interested in improving their academic essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and strategies for our analytical writing. As we practice various essay structures
Writing

The Scriptorium: Visual Culture — LIT2252.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
How do we organize and understand our perceptions of the world? How do we look at objects? At paintings and photographs, advertisements and films? What do we see, and not see, when we visit a new place, or when we encounter an animal? And, importantly, how do we perceive and comprehend each other? This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for beginning
Literature

The Scriptorium: What Is Culture? — WRI2168.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Alex Creighton
Days & Time: MO,TH 1:40pm-3:30pm
Credits: 4

The Scriptorium, a “place for writing,” is a class for writers interested in improving their critical essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai<

Writing

The Scriptorium: Writing About Place — LIT2503.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Camille Guthrie
Credits: 4
This scriptorium, a “place for writing,” will function as a class for bilingual or multilingual writers interested in improving their essay-writing skills. We will read to write and write to read, following the originator of the form, Montaigne. Much of our time will be occupied with writing and revising—essai means “trial” or “attempt”—as we work to create new habits and
Literature

The Self, the Soul, and St. Augustine — LIT2339.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Benjamin Anastas
Credits: 2
We live in an age of rampant confession, so it can be difficult to conceive of a world without it. Augustine’s Confessions—which the Bishop of Hippo dictated to a team of scribes between 397 and 400 C.E.—is one of those rare literary works that marks a very clear before and after. In this two-credit course we’ll spend the term reading the whole of the Confessions slowly and
Literature

The Silk Road — HIS4116.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Carol Pal
Credits: 4
n this course, we examine six moments of intellectual encounter between "east" and "west" along the storied routes of the Silk Road.  These encounters spanned a millennium, from the fifth century BCE to the fourteenth century.  We will be reading travel narratives written by these adventurers – Herodotus, Xuan Zang, Al-Biruni, Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, and Sir John
Society Culture and Thought