ENGL 239 - Espial Workshop

Credits: 5
Introduces students to the creative process of book publication. Students manage their process and partner with the ART 150 class to create a literary and visual arts journal on behalf of Green River College. Tasks and deadlines are self-assigned in curatorial, layout design, editing and promotion.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Produce a formal collection of students’ creative works, including fiction, poetry, drawings, and photographs.
Solicit, review, edit, select and format student submissions of literature and art.
Organize, edit, evaluate, and select submissions to create the journal.
Develop teamwork skills in the production of a journal, including the division of tasks and the learning of new skills (e.g. specialized technology, fundraising and marketing, cover design and aesthetic appeal).

Program Outcomes
Produce effective written communication, which demonstrates critical thinking; writing and research processes; and knowledge of genres for workplace, expository, or research writing.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.