FSEM 102   Conversations

Faculty Profile for Professor Worley

Employs a set of five common texts – selected by the faculty teaching the course – to promote wide-ranging conversations, anchored in the past and directed toward the present. Core Conversations defines the term “text” expansively, not limiting it to written work but encompassing diverse modes of intellectual and creative expression. As such, the common texts for this course are drawn from multiple disciplines, from pre-modern and modern worlds, and from Western and non-Western cultures. Instructors are encouraged to add other materials in order to enhance the themes of the course.

FSEM:Students can expect an informal, even irreverent, classroom environment, inclusion of visual as well as written materials, and an emphasis on what all these famous books actually say (as opposed to what we assume they say). Students who successfully complete this seminar earn credit for CORE 111 and satisfy the Core Conversations requirement.

Meg Worley teaches in the department of Writing & Rhetoric and the program in Film & Media Studies, where much of her focus is on visual rhetoric (typography, data visualization, etc.). She believes that tiny details are much more influential than generally assumed, and that NOTICING things is the secret to everything.