ENC 3934- Fall 2025 - Sirota

Rethinking Language: Media Narratives and Cross-Cultural Writing explores how language shapes identity and influences media discourse. From news headlines to viral tweets, we’ll analyze how language is framed and whose voices are heard. Through a mix of academic writing, media analysis, and narrative projects, you’ll experiment with different ways of writing to connect with audiences, challenge language hierarchies, and rethink cultural boundaries. We’ll also explore how people blend and adapt language and how media both reinforces and resists these shifts. Whether you speak one language or many, this course will give you new ways to think about language and help you develop practices that reflect the complex way people communicate in the real world.