ENG 4934-0002-Fall 2026 -Neal

This senior seminar serves as a capstone experience for students in the major, inviting them to revisit, reflect on, and make connections between the key terms and concepts they have encountered throughout their academic careers. As students prepare to move into graduate study or professional life, this course asks: what have you learned, and how does it apply to where you are going? The course is organized around the idea that language, meaning, and communication is never static. How we compose and circulate texts is shaped by the media, technologies, and cultural contexts in which we work. Students will examine how composing practices are evolving in a digital world, engaging questions of genre, multimodality, intellectual property, and the role of emerging technologies such as AI and automation. The two foundational projects for this course are 1. a traditional academic paper that develops a researched, nuanced argument about a key term in the field its significance across contexts. 2. a digital composition that enacts the key term using digital tools and platforms to put the concept into practice as a form of making and meaning. Students will be asked to reflect on their learning, composing processes, and personal goals. By the end of the course, students will have produced work that reflects both their development in the major and their vision for the intellectual and/or professional work ahead.