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The Major Core

The four course core is required of all Writing and Rhetoric Majors. 

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WRT 255: Advanced Writing Studio: Advanced Argumentative Writing (3 credits)

Catalog Description: Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing. 3 credits :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors and Minors

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WRT 302: Advanced Writing Studio: Digital Writing (3 credits) 

Catalog Description: Practice in writing in digital environments. May include document and web design, multimedia, digital video, weblogs. Introduction to a range of issues, theories, and software applications relevant to such writing. 3 credits :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors

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WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum 

Catalog Description: Introduction to theories and methods of writing consultation. Topics include: social dynamics, grammar, ESL, LD, argumentation, critical reading, writing process. Practices: observations, role playing, peer groups, one-on-one. Writing intensive. 3 credits :: Genres and Practices

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WRT 427: Emerging Technologies in Professional & Technical Writing


Catalog Description: An advanced technical writing course focusing on project management and writing that development teams perform regularly, with emphasis on digital writing, site architecture, and assessment/implementation of emerging technologies. Additional work required of graduate students (WRT 627).  3 credits :: Double Numbered with: WRT 627 :: Genres and Practices


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Students will work with a wide range of established and emerging technologies that are commonly used in the workplace. 

Students will critically examine the impact technologies have on communication and collaboration in virtual teams and project management.  

Students will gain experience in communicating professional and/or technical topics to variable, non-expert audiences, including basic principles of information architecture and usability. 

Students will apply theoretical knowledge to practical, workplace projects.

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WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy


Catalog Description: Particular topics in the theories and studies of writing, including style, community literacy, authorship, and rhetorical genres. Places writing in historical and cultural contexts. 3 credits :: Repeatable :: Histories and Theories 


Outcomes 

Students will learn [to approach] literacy [literacies] as the study of symbolic and material systems of meaning that emerge in culture, as well as the modes [methods, and modalities] of communication that exist within, alongside, and in opposition to those cultures.

Students will understand literacy as a way of reading the world and articulating the relationships that exist between power, identity, ideologies and agentive possibilities. 

Students will become conversant with the idea that meaning, and discourse in general, is a social construction that is subject to repeated negotiation between authors and their audiences, and in the multiply related contexts of language, culture, and worldview.   

Students will employ their understanding of literacy in relation to emergent trends and shifting norms.

Students will [an alternative to the uncritical subscription to universalist codes] evaluate multiple literacies as manifestations of established and evolving practices that unfold in specific contexts and situations.


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WRT 430: Advanced Experience in Writing Consultation

Catalog Description: Particular topics in the theories and studies of writing, including style, community literacy, authorship, and rhetorical genres. Places writing in historical and cultural contexts. 3 credits :: Repeatable :: Genre and Practices 

Outcomes 

Students will continue to explore a range of Writing Center theory in order to understand how current practices have evolved and how Writing Centers are positioned within the university community.

Students will continue to work with writers in the Writing Center and strive to apply methods and strategies that reflect the values of the WC

Students will engage in observations and workshops in order to further develop effective consulting strategies and build their tutoring skills.

Students will continue to draw connections between peer tutoring and their own ongoing research. 

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