| GCOS 173 Writing the College Essay Workshop |
| This is a writing workshop with two main purposes: to hone the skills needed to produce college level academic essays based on evidence and logic and to make writing a familiar and comfortable tool for students’ investigation and self-expression. The writing course will work in tandem with the Global Issues in Latin America course with assignments developing themes from that class. Students will participate in weekly workshop sessions, guided by the instructor, in which they will receive constructive, collaborative critique from their classmates. This peer feedback will help students write informed revisions of their work and support their active commitment to improve. The class is based on the idea of writing as a process and supports the development of critical reading, thinking, as well as writing, skills. |
| GCOS 174 Globalization in Contemporary World Fiction |
| The goal of this course is to gain a deeper understanding of the processes of globalization by reading what important writers from around the world have said about the subject. We will read work by some of the major scholars who have contributed to the debates about globalization. These writings will provide the framework for our consideration of recent novels and stories from India, China, Japan and Latin America. We will explore how the globalization phenomenon is lived on a human level in diverse cultures. For students taking the course for two hours the requirements are: weekly writing responding to the reading assignments, two analytic essays, oral presentations and active class participation. Students can earn three credits by writing a research paper and reading an extra novel, in addition to completing the above |
COSTA RICA CENTER (GCOS) COURSE DESCRIPTIONS - GCOS 102 Living Latin American Culture I |
