2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin

SSC 220 Writing in the Social Sciences: Learning Powerful Authorship

3 hours

This course prepares students for upper-division disciplinary writing in the social sciences by introducing key genres and conventions common to anthropology, political science, economics, psychology, and sociology. Students will learn how to identify and articulate a social problem as they locate and discuss relevant literature. Students will also learn to write about their observations of society and communicate evidenced-based arguments to academic and public audiences within a framework of justice and equality. This writing course places special emphasis on the role of the researcher-writer’s position of authority in writing about, with, and for other people, communities, and locations.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

ENG 201

Notes

This course satisfies the John Jay College Option: Communications area of the Gen Ed Program.