Own Language: Exploring Language & Identity

a Discovery Core Experience

BCORE 104 (Arts & Humanities). This course is linked with a BWRIT course (meaning you’d register for both, 10 credits total)

About This Course

How does language frame our perception of identity? In addition to introducing students to college resources, this course will explore interdisciplinary perspectives on the ways language shapes our sense of who we are, as well as who each other are. In order to do so, we will explore the cultural politics of terms we use to identify each other (and ourselves), as well as the discourses we use to signal heritages and affiliations, out loud and on the page.

What Will We Study?

真人线上娱乐 majority of our course texts come from scholars, writers, filmmakers and performers focusing on a wide-array of marginalized, diverse identities and linguistic experiences in the United States. We’ll dive into a mix of research articles, memoirs, poetry/spoken word, and creative nonfiction, as well as blogs and spoken word performances.

You will practice writing multiple genres, including formal emails, summary-response papers, exploratory essays,  and reflection writing, but coursework will also include active participation in collaborative annotations, small, in-person group work, full-class discussions, and informal journal responses. You should also expect lots of writing and multiple revisions, peer feedback, and small-group or individual conferencing.

Why Take this Course?

Over the course of the class you should become more familiar with the resources UWB has to offer, and expand your understanding of your own ways with words and your many identities. And long the way, you will hopefully discover that there’s more than one way to own language and yourself.

Dr. Mira Shimabukuro (she/her/hers)

School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences

About Professor Shimabukuro

B.A., Liberal Studies, Evergreen State College
MFA, Creative Writing, UW Seattle
Ph.D., Composition and Rhetoric, University of Wisconsin Madison

Contact

Office: UW1-337
Phone: 425-352-5067
Email: mshima2@uw.edu
Mailing Box: 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011