I taught English 298 in Autumn 2022 and Winter 2023 at the University of Washington. The course was delivered in an in-person format. English 298: Intermediate Writing in the Social Sciences is part of the university’s Program for Writing Across Campus (PWAC), an undergraduate program that develops students’ writing and research skills. Many PWAC courses are linked to discipline-specific courses and students in the PWAC course engage with the ideas from that linked course in their writing class. Both ENGL 298 classes that I taught were linked with LSJ 200: An Introduction to Law, Societies, and Justice.

Throughout the term, students worked on a series of scaffolded assignments that culminated in a class public scholarship project. Students created zines about a topic from the course that they were interested in or wanted to learn more about. They then developed a zine which critically analyzed the topic, bringing together key course concepts and readings as well as their original research, while creating a piece of writing intended to communicate with a public audience. Students then had the option to include their final zine in the course’s public scholarship project which took the form of a public, online zine library.

Students’ zines can be viewed in the ENGL 298 zine library available at this link.