The Expository Writing faculty frequently reinvent their courses
to keep material fresh, relevant, and engaging.
An archive of previous Expository Writing course syllabi
can be found at our linked Canvas page.
Expository Writing has a history of offering rich, varied course topics. Below are titles for previously taught Expository Writing courses.
Advisors can find more details about a specific course in the Syllabus Archives.
Alcohol in America
ALT-OK: Alternative Oklahoma
American Gangster
American Genius
American Writers and Artists in Paris
Black Girl Magic
Citizens!
Doppelgangers and Doubles
Education, Race, Power
Effective Laughter: Rhetorical Work of Comedy
The Great Gatsby: Myth to Meme
From Poets to Rockstars
From Spirituals to Hip-Hop
Gender, Sex, and Science
Generation Gaps: Boom to Zoom
Humans, Nature: Fragile Future
Immigrant American
Islam and the West
Keeping It Real
Love and Sex in the Middle Ages
Migration and the World
Modern Monsters
Music, Sound, and Noise
Myth and Hero
Myth of the American Dream
National Parks and Monuments
Poetry From Page to Stage
Politics in Everyday Life
Popular Science
Real Utopias
Rebel Music
Science Fact, Science Fiction, Pseudoscience
Seeing is Believing
Social Construction of Ideas
Space Invaders
Students’ Right to Language
Sub-Counter Culture
Truth to Power
Violence and the Sacred
What is Work?
Why Black Lives Matter
The Writing Life
Wolves of Wall Street
The Expository Writing faculty frequently reinvent their courses
to keep material fresh, relevant, and engaging.
An archive of previous Expository Writing course syllabi
can be found at our linked Canvas page.
