Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2021

FSEM 172   Academic Persuasions
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2024 2023 2022 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
Pre-Requisites
Co-Requisites
Core Area
Area of InquiryHuman Thought and Expression
Liberal Arts Practices

Faculty Profile for Professor Lutman

This course is especially designed for students who seek extra support for their writing. Students explore language as tied to identity and consider how they might wish to position themselves as writers in an academic context like Colgate. Students also learn about specific writing conventions that vary across three broad "persuasions," or academic disciplines, within the liberal arts tradition: the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Requirements include weekly readings and varied writing assignments. Students who successfully complete this seminar receive credit for WRIT 110 and satisfy one half of the human thought and expression areas of inquiry requirement.

Jenn Lutman directs the Writing and Speaking Center and teaches rhetoric and composition. Her areas of specialization include writing pedagogy, style, and poetry.