NURS 49500 - Writing for Health Professionals: A Course for Undergraduates

In this course, students explore and refine their powers of observation, description, and expression through writing. Students engage in prompted narrative writing exercises and produce new out-of-class writings that are discussed in small groups and revised. The cultural and personal context in which writing is produced and read is emphasized. Scholarly and literary works are discussed, as are blogs. Students are guided to explore and test strategies for overcoming personal challenges to timely, effective writing.

prereq: ENGL 12000
45 hrs.
3 cr.