English 313w: Language of Peace, is a course that presents concepts, readings, and writing on and about peace. The course challenge is to develop a list of principles or a list of strategies for imagining and enacting peaceful communications. This course takes a biased stand on peace in that we will take a rhetorical look at language. What does peace look like? How do individuals approach potential conflict or confrontation in a peaceful manner? What does peace across the disciplines look like? How might peaceful approaches and peaceful strategies affect a particular job or area of study? What changes in our current thinking need to happen for peaceful thinking to become innate? How does the physical environment fit into peaceful thinking? Should teachers include peace studies in their syllabi? How can we think about peace without war or conflict? Your end goal is to examine how language is used to express peace, and how such language leads to peaceful action.

Students will discuss, research, write, write, write, and present their findings to their classroom peers as well as to a general audience at various points of the term.

Papers: 5 (4 @ 7-10 pages; 1 @ 12-15). Revised, edited, perfect.
Presentations: 4 (2 in pairs/groups; 2 solo). Rehearsed, revised, perfect.
Projects: 3 (1 in pairs/groups; 2 solo). Tested, revised, perfect.

This course is a hybrid, conference-based, class lecture, and in-class exercises environment. You are responsible to attend class, face-to-face conferences, and assignments online. English 313w is also a writing-intensive course that satisfies N.A.U.'s Liberal Studies junior-level writing requirement.