Composition

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Location: Saint Mary's University, Synchronous Online, Mondays & Wednesdays,10:00am to 11:15am

Start Date: 1/7/2026

End Date: 4/24/2026

Composition

Synopsis

Want to learn how to write and think in your pyjamas? Seán Kennedy's "Introduction to Composition" course teaches us how to write and how to think. The wager is that to write well means to think well; to write critically means to think critically.

Course Overview

Kennedy will use local visionary Sue Goyette's latest book, Future Howl, as their course text. "Future Howl is a complex, exacting achievement," Kennedy has said. "It is obscure, resistant and resilient. It demands careful thought and patient consideration. To unravel its secrets, we will study aesthetics, psychoanalysis, liberal colonialism, liberal fascism, ecofeminism, posthumanism, formalism, Alice Munro and wolves."

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