Course Work
Here are the courses and a description of the writings I have included in my portfolio:
Theories of Writing | WRIT 2000
​From this class I chose my essay on Digital Literacy Evolution: The Rise of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction in Social Media. I really enjoyed this assignment despite it being a bit of a challenge for me.​
​Class description from syllabus:
"In Theories of Writing, you will learn how theories of writing have developed from ancient to contemporary times. We will explore how and why Plato and Socrates distrusted writing because it displaced the present moment and the immediacy of the audience and how that distrust has affected theories of writing historically as well as how the immediacy of online writing complicates this distrust. We will explore how the ancients
viewed writing as a process and how and why this view has evolved currently. Furthermore, we will explore how writing works rhetorically and socially to create knowledge by responding to the specific needs and purposes of its audience and how knowledge changes as the needs and purposes of audiences change. We will explore where creativity comes from and how creative writers work. Finally, we will explore how and why the visual and aural nature of online writing is changing how we write."​
Composition Theory | ENGL 3818
From this class I chose my essay on generative AI. This was a really fun assignment because it was the first time that I was assigned a task that combined both writing and computer science.
​​Class description from syllabus:
"What could be more intellectually engaging and, dare I say, fun than trying to account for writing in all its guises, from editorials to poems, school papers to novels, academic discourse to popular, shopping lists to blogs to movie scripts to short stories to memoirs--and more? This is especially true in an historical moment when generative text AI (think Chat GPT) raises fundamental questions about the nature and value of writing.
​​We’ll use that development as a framework for several questions. How did writing come into being? Who "invented" it, and how? How do writers develop--and why are some better than others? Why do some people want to be writers--and others want nothing to do with writing? How do technologies inflect writing? Where does creativity come from? How about style? How do our brains work when we write? What role does reading play? How about experience? How about gender? Does writing "map" reality or does it "create" reality? What are the purposes of writing? The history? The definitions? Why do these questions matter? What are genres and how do they work? How do media of production and circulation change writing? As you can see, there are tons of interesting questions we might pursue, and I’m organizing the course around several of them."
Creative Writing | ABRE 2988
From this class I chose the first chapter of a nonfiction memoir I began writing for the final project. I am still currently writing this piece; however, it is one of my main focuses at the moment so I wanted to highlight it.
Class description from syllabus:
"This course is a creative writing workshop thematically keyed—but not restricted—to exploring the experience of living and traveling abroad through writing about our experiences in Italy and Europe. Along with weekly writing workshops, we will read and discuss texts that focus on Italy and Europe from both the native and foreign perspectives, noting particularly the literary techniques and strategies that various writers have
used to express their experiences of Italy as a place, its people, or as a literary trope. Our class sessions will be divided almost equally between these two activities. One of our two weekly sessions will be devoted to the examination of a text dealing with various American, English, Austrian, French, and Italian authors’ experiences of Italy. These texts will provide us with a forum for discussing the literary expression of place and one’s relationship to those places as well as showcasing various literary forms, genres, and techniques that we might find useful in the formulation of our own texts. The readings will also provide us with models for weekly writing assignments that will ward off any writer’s block. In these classes we will also listen to various authors reading their texts aloud and consider the aesthetics of literary performance."
Creative Writing- Poetry | ENGL 2003
From this class I chose to include my final project anthology. Poetry has always been a means of expression for myself so I am very proud to include my poetry in my portfolio.
Class description from syllabus:
"This creative workshop is for students who would like to expand their writing practices in the genre of poetry. In addition to generating and submitting poems weekly, students will be expected to read from a provided selection of modern and contemporary works and offer feedback on each other’s writing. We will focus on growing a repertoire of techniques and forms. Prior experience (Introduction to Creative Writing) is required."
Revision Piece |
I chose to revise a poem I wrote called, Social Butterfly. I changed the piece to be a journal entry in which I fully expressed all that I touched on in the poem, making it into a self-reflective entry depicting the story of feeling out of place at a party, driving home full of thoughts, and finally being alone, only to wonder if others feel the same as I do.
Major (CS) Piece | COMP 2673
While I have taken multiple Computer Science courses, I chose to encorperate the game I coded in Intro to Computer Science III class. The piece is a snake game that is playable by users. This was my favorite project that I encoded so far at DU and I was very fond of the class in general.
Class description from syllabus:
"Welcome to Spring Quarter 2022! The instructors and TAs for this course are all committed to you successfully mastering the material for this course, and to you growing as programmers, as thinkers and as people. We are working to create a learning environment that supports community and connection as we all learn together! We're excited about sharing the beautiful ideas in this course, and about helping you implement cool
programs. In this course, you will be introduced to data structures and basic runtime analysis of programs. This course covers the following data structures: Linked Lists, Queues, Stacks, Dynamic Arrays, Trees, Binary Search Trees, Maps, Sets and Hash Tables. You'll simultaneously develop your programming skills by implementing programs that use these structures."