Travel Writing in Metz and Alsace-Lorraine: Navigating the Art and Science of War and Peace

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3234
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

With Gallo-Roman ruins, art museums, sweeping cathedrals, winding water ways, mysterious passages, and the ghosts of three recent major wars haunting the streets and surrounding landscapes, Metz and the Lorraine region offer an interesting conversation between war and peace that may be compelling to diversity of artistic and historical sensibilities. We will process this sensorial experience through the genre of travel writing. Travel Writing is an exciting reflection on travel by connecting with foreign places through our unique, personal perspectives. Travel writing is not neutral or objective. But it isn’t fiction either. You will be constantly asked to make comparisons between your cultural experiences and observations with ones made in France. Renowned travel writer Pico Iyer claims that “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.” For our topic, we must consider that war destroys lives but also familiarity and tradition. However, in the wake of peace, creation abounds. New landscapes, design, art, history, and ways of thinking reflect the shifts in consciousness after war. This course will help you produce clear, expressive prose, sharpen your eye for travel detail, and cultivate your individual voice through the lens of art and history shaped by the painful events in war, but also by the rich culture developed in peace, in Metz, the Lorraine, and Alsace.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Arts, Humanities & Ethics area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome:

  • Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts in English or other languages, or of works in the visual/performing arts.

 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Information Literacy
  • Intercultural Competence
Instructor first name:
Jennifer
Instructor last name:
Orth-Veillon
Section:
RMZ
CRN
31765
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

English Composition II

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
ENGL
Course number:
1102
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

Mycological networks offer remarkable examples of communication within and across species. Through complex chemical exchanges, mycelia “talk” to each other and other organisms, creating vast networks of knowledge-sharing that exist in a variety of modes. These networks allow mycelia to ward off disease, negotiate with life-partners, attract pollinators, and much more. Alongside texts like The Mushroom at the End of the World (Tsing) and Entangled Life (Sheldrake), we will explore what these entanglements can show us about our own communication practices, habits, and assumptions. At the beginning of the term, you will be assigned to a cohort of 3-5 people (depending on class size), with whom you will work closely for the rest of the semester. Projects include a research paper, a collaborative research poster and presentation, and an assemblage art piece.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Writing area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I write effectively in different contexts?
Instructor first name:
Megan
Instructor last name:
Fontenot
Section:
D2, H3, K04
CRN
31664
35142
28530
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

English Composition II

Last Updated: Sun, 01/11/2026
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Course prefix:
ENGL
Course number:
1102
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. Develops communication skills in networked electronic environments, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation of cultural texts, and incorporates research methods in print and on the Internet.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

ENGL 1102 ENGL COMPOSITION II

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Writing area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I write effectively in different contexts?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions.
  • Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources.
  • Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience.
  • Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Information Literacy
  • Persuasion
Instructor first name:
Benjamin
Instructor last name:
Rutherfurd
Section:
L9
CRN
25117
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

English Composition II

Last Updated: Sun, 01/11/2026
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Course prefix:
ENGL
Course number:
1102
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. Develops communication skills in networked electronic environments, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation of cultural texts, and incorporates research methods in print and on the Internet.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

ENGL 1102 ENGL COMPOSITION II

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Writing area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I write effectively in different contexts?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions.
  • Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources.
  • Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience.
  • Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Information Literacy
  • Persuasion
Instructor first name:
Benjamin
Instructor last name:
Rutherfurd
Section:
K0
CRN
30297
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

English Composition II

Last Updated: Sun, 01/11/2026
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Course prefix:
ENGL
Course number:
1102
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. Develops communication skills in networked electronic environments, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation of cultural texts, and incorporates research methods in print and on the Internet.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

ENGL 1102 ENGL COMPOSITION II

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Writing area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  • How do I write effectively in different contexts?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions.
  • Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources.
  • Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience.
  • Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Information Literacy
  • Persuasion
Instructor first name:
Benjamin
Instructor last name:
Rutherfurd
Section:
G0
CRN
28526
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Shakespeare

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3228
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

This course, framed as “Shakespeare, the Art and Science of Attention,” introduces Shakespeare’s major works and representative genres, including the English sonnet, narrative poem, occasional poem, comedy, tragedy, history, and romance. Through sustained attention to Shakespearean language, form, and performance, we will consider questions about cognition, artificial intelligence, creativity, and authorship against the backdrop of what may be the most radical textual revolution since Gutenberg’s printing press. Writing during a period of unprecedented technological change, Shakespeare staged the faculties of the mind and body—thinking, sensing, desiring, forgetting, dreaming, grieving—by dramatizing a cognitive ecology where thought emerges not only from the brain but also from the confluence of language, feeling, and the environment. Importantly, Shakespeare’s plays and poems occasion opportunities for us to practice our own cognitive skills, including memory, attention, and ethical reflection, so that we may more fully and responsibly engage multiple intelligences. English 1102 is a prerequisite for this course. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to act according to the highest ethical standards. The immediate objective of an Academic Honor Code is to prevent any Students from gaining an unfair advantage over other Students through academic misconduct. The following clarification of academic misconduct is taken from Section XIX Student Code of Conduct, of the Rules and Regulations section of the Georgia Institute of Technology General Catalog: Academic misconduct is any act that does or could improperly distort Student grades or other Student academic records. Such acts include but need not be limited to the following:

Unauthorized Access: Possessing, using, or exchanging improperly acquired written or verbal information in the preparation of a problem set, laboratory report, essay, examination, or other academic assignment.

Unauthorized Collaboration: Unauthorized interaction with another Student or Students in the fulfillment of academic requirements.

  • Plagiarism: Submission of material that is wholly or substantially identical to that created or published by another person or persons, without adequate credit notations indicating the authorship.
  • False Claims of Performance: False claims for work that has been submitted by a Student.
  • Grade Alteration: Alteration of any academic grade or rating so as to obtain unearned academic credit.
  • Deliberate Falsification: Deliberate falsification of a written or verbal statement of fact to a Faculty member and/or Institute Official, so as to obtain unearned academic credit.
  • Forgery: Forgery, alteration, or misuse of any Institute document relating to the academic status of the Student.
  • Distortion: Any act that distorts or could distort grades or other academic records.

While these acts constitute assured instances of academic misconduct, other acts of academic misconduct may be defined by the professor. The Honor Agreement may reappear on exams and other assignments to remind Students of their responsibilities under the Georgia Institute of Technology Academic Honor Code. 

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: Ethical Reasoning; Information Literacy; Intercultural Competence.

Instructor first name:
Perry
Instructor last name:
Guevara
Section:
B
CRN
31552
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Literature and Medicine

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3219
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

In her essay, “On Being Ill,” Virginia Woolf diagnoses the impoverishment of the English language for its failure to accurately represent the experience of sickness. For centuries, writers have attempted to give linguistic shape to physical and mental suffering, but Woolf insists we need a new vocabulary—words “subtle” and “sensual”—to faithfully express the body’s tremors and throes, cancers and convulsions. In this course, we will trace literary and medical representations of illness and healing from the early modern period to the present, paying attention not only to those who suffer but also to those who care for the suffering. Authors may include Audre Lorde, Paul Kalanithi, Atul Gawande, Jeannette Winterson, Margaret Edson, and John Donne. Topics may include biopolitics, illness and metaphor, mental health, the ethics of care, disability, and the evolving field of the health humanities.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to act according to the highest ethical standards. The immediate objective of an Academic Honor Code is to prevent any Students from gaining an unfair advantage over other Students through academic misconduct. The following clarification of academic misconduct is taken from Section XIX Student Code of Conduct, of the Rules and Regulations section of the Georgia Institute of Technology General Catalog: Academic misconduct is any act that does or could improperly distort Student grades or other Student academic records. Such acts include but need not be limited to the following:

Unauthorized Access: Possessing, using, or exchanging improperly acquired written or verbal information in the preparation of a problem set, laboratory report, essay, examination, or other academic assignment.

Unauthorized Collaboration: Unauthorized interaction with another Student or Students in the fulfillment of academic requirements.

  • Plagiarism: Submission of material that is wholly or substantially identical to that created or published by another person or persons, without adequate credit notations indicating the authorship.
  • False Claims of Performance: False claims for work that has been submitted by a Student.
  • Grade Alteration: Alteration of any academic grade or rating so as to obtain unearned academic credit.
  • Deliberate Falsification: Deliberate falsification of a written or verbal statement of fact to a Faculty member and/or Institute Official, so as to obtain unearned academic credit.
  • Forgery: Forgery, alteration, or misuse of any Institute document relating to the academic status of the Student.
  • Distortion: Any act that distorts or could distort grades or other academic records.

While these acts constitute assured instances of academic misconduct, other acts of academic misconduct may be defined by the professor. The Honor Agreement may reappear on exams and other assignments to remind Students of their responsibilities under the Georgia Institute of Technology Academic Honor Code. 

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area. Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question: How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works? 

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts. 

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: Ethical Reasoning; Information Literacy; Intercultural Competence.

Instructor first name:
Perry
Instructor last name:
Guevara
Section:
A
CRN
35311
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Disability, Accessibility, and Culture

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
3206
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

LMC 3206, Communication & Culture: Examines ways in which forms and media of communication create and are created by other cultural constructs.

CRN 31550, Spring Semester 2026, Section AS, "Disability, Accessibility, and Culture:" What does it mean to have a disability? How is this shaped by cultural, historical, technological, biomedical, educational, political, legal, and economic forces? What is the history of disability rights and how can we design a more accessible world? This course will examine both historic and contemporary theories and representations of disability in scholarship, criticism, film, art, social media, and pop culture. 

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Humanities area (see https://undergradcurriculum.gatech.edu/general-education/ for more information).

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals. This course thus directs students toward a broad Orienting Question: How do I interpret the human experience through creative, linguistic, and philosophical works?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcome: Students will effectively analyze and interpret the meaning, cultural significance, and ethical implications of literary/philosophical texts or of works in the visual/performing arts.

Content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies: 1) Ethical Reasoning, 2) Information Literacy, 3) Intercultural Competence.

Instructor first name:
Allegra
Instructor last name:
Smith
Section:
AS
CRN
31550
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Intro to Media Studies

Last Updated: Mon, 01/05/2026
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Course prefix:
LMC
Course number:
2400
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:
  1. This course focuses on introducing students to foundational approaches in media studies, with attention to how media forms develop historically, operate culturally, and shape everyday life.
  2. This course provides students with core concepts and analytical frameworks for interpreting screen-based media and other cultural artifacts, while emphasizing discussion-driven learning, close reading, and clear communication in both written and oral forms.
Academic honesty/integrity statement:
  1. This course provides clear expectations for academic integrity, including specific guidance on AI use: brainstorming support is permitted, but any AI-generated writing or images must be cited, and uncited AI use is treated as plagiarism and may receive a grade of 0.
  2. This course focuses on maintaining professional academic standards consistent with university norms and emphasizes responsible attribution and ethical scholarship in all coursework.
  3. The Georgia Tech Honor Code is explicit in defining plagiarism as “the deliberate use of any outside source without proper acknowledgment,” including “appropriating the literary composition of another, or parts of passages of his or her writings, or language or ideas of the same, and passing them off as the product of one’s own mind.” If caught plagiarizing, you will be dealt with according to the GT Academic Honor Code. The full Honor Code is available online: http://osi.gatech.edu/content/honor
Instructor first name:
Cecile (Yangminming)
Instructor last name:
Zhang
Section:
B2
CRN
25107
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication

Composition II

Last Updated: Sun, 01/04/2026
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Course prefix:
ENGL
Course number:
1102
Semester:
Spring
Academic year:
2026
Course description:

A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101, that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. Develops communication skills in networked electronic environments, emphasizes interpretation and evaluation of cultural texts, and incorporates research methods in print and on the Internet.

Academic honesty/integrity statement:

Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All work submitted must be original and properly cited. Plagiarism, cheating, or any form of academic dishonesty will result in immediate consequences as outlined in the university's academic integrity policy.

Core IMPACTS statement(s) (if applicable):

This is a Core IMPACTS course that is part of the Writing area.

Core IMPACTS refers to the core curriculum, which provides students with essential knowledge in foundational academic areas. This course will help master course content, and support students’ broad academic and career goals.

This course should direct students toward a broad Orienting Question:

  •  How do I write effectively in different contexts?

Completion of this course should enable students to meet the following Learning Outcomes:

  • Students will communicate effectively in writing, demonstrating clear organization and structure, using appropriate grammar and writing conventions.
  • Students will appropriately acknowledge the use of materials from original sources.
  • Students will adapt their written communications to purpose and audience.
  • Students will analyze and draw informed inferences from written texts.

Course content, activities and exercises in this course should help students develop the following Career-Ready Competencies:

  • Critical Thinking
  • Information Literacy
  • Persuasion
Instructor first name:
Jacqueline
Instructor last name:
Kari
Section:
L6
CRN
35060
Department (you may add up to three):
Literature, Media, and Communication
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