This photograph of a destitute mother, Florence Christie Owens, from the Great Depression is an example of visual rhetoric of photography and film, which, combined with print media, help raise awareness of social problems and advocate for change. (Photograph by Dorothea Lange; in the public domain via The Library of Congress.)
Instructor(s)
Dr. Andrea Walsh
MIT Course Number
21W.011
As Taught In
Fall 2015
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Description
This course seeks to provide a supportive context for students to grow significantly as writers by discovering and engaging with issues that matter to them. Writing on social and ethical issues, we can see ourselves within a tradition of authors such as Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Orwell, Rachel Carson, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., who have used the power of the pen to inspire social change.
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