This course provides opportunities for you to become a more effective communicator as you refine your thinking, writing, speaking, designing, collaborating, and reflecting. As part of the WOVEN (written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal communication) curriculum, ENGL 1102 emphasizes developing your strategic processes in multimodal communication, critical analysis, and research. In this section of the course, you’ll investigate the course topic as you employ writing and other WOVEN modes to create projects about the course topic in a range of writing-focused genres. Ekphrasis derives from the Greek ek- (out) phrázein (to explain, point out, tell); historically, ekphrasis has meant vivid writing about visual images and art. We will use ekphrasis to explain our experiences with visual art, to point out the details we observe for analysis, and to tell our stories. Students will visit the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, creating ekphrastic responses to visual works; read and analyze Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons to create experimental film projects that adapt their interpretations of the poems; and plan a film festival catalogue to showcase their work and critique their peers’ films. Students will work across genres as they build critical thinking, adaptation, and visual literacy skills.