In general, WR 112 instructors should feel free to use as many of the following texts as they would like to build up their course, supplementing as they see fit with other texts (“texts” is broadly construed, including advertisements, videos, podcasts, TED talks, etc.). Please share any additional texts you are using beyond this list so that we may add them to our common pool.

Hub theme for WR 112: Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy (see below)

WR 112 Texts and the BU Hub

The BU Hub (general education requirements for all undergraduates across BU’s many schools and colleges) provides a broad and focused learning area of interdisciplinary learning experiences to prepare students for an increasingly interconnected world. Towards such an end, the BU Hub contains six essential capacities:

  1. Philosophical, Aesthetic, and Historical Interpretation
  2. Scientific and Social Inquiry
  3. Quantitative Reasoning
  4. Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship
  5. Communication
  6. Intellectual Toolkit.

WR 112 satisfies a Hub requirement in “Diversity, Civic Engagement, and Global Citizenship,” specifically in the area of “Global Citizenship and Intercultural Literacy,” in which students are guided to explore how “our world is interlinked socially, economically, culturally, and politically” and to consider the “historical and systemic bases of social and racial inequities occur in the world today.” 

Texts by Theme

Faculty are encouraged to use the themes below as a starting point for populating their syllabus, considering possible connections students might make in a synthesis.