Home and Here
PROGRAM SUMMARY
How does a place affect who we are, how can we better understand the places where we live, and how do we affect those places? This program offers incoming first-year students an opportunity to read and write about place, examining places they’ve called home and exploring the new home they’ve come to at Principia College. In this program, you will develop research and observational skills; write authentically about concepts of identity, place, and home; and help build and share a sense of community while transitioning into college life in Elsah, Illinois.
ENGL 245: Creative Writing on Location: Home and Here (3SH, GEA)
In this course, you will write about your concept of home, where you come from, and where you find yourself at Principia College, in Southern Illinois, next to the Mississippi River. You will have opportunities to observe and explore Principia’s campus and the surrounding area, study poetic and narrative writing techniques through reading various writers, and apply these techniques to your own writing. As you engage in the writing process throughout the semester, you will be part of a supportive community of writers that aims to help each classmate revise, develop, and deepen their writing.
GEN 101 HH ILC: Home and Here (3SH)
As part of the Home and Here FYE program, this course is key in supporting your transition into college academic life. This is a foundational course used to develop, practice, and apply college-level reading, critical thinking, writing, information literacy, and speaking skills. In the course you will complete an annotated bibliography, a written research project, a reflective essay, and other writing and discussion assignments related to the themes of this FYE program.