Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

255|301|302|303|307|308|331|340|400|413|417|422|423|424|425|426|427|428|430|436|437|440|447

...

The Major Core

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

Anchor
255
255
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

...

Course/Teacher Evaluation Form

...

Anchor
302
302
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

...

Course/Teacher Evaluation Form

...

Anchor
331
331
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

...

Course/Teacher Evaluation Form

...

Anchor
436
436
WRT 436:

...

 Feminist Rhetoric(s)


Catalog Description: Feminist rhetoric from both a historical and global context, utilizing both primary and secondary readings in order to gain a sense of breadth and depth in the field of feminist rhetoric. Additional work required of graduate students. 3 credits :: Histories and Theories

...

Anchor
437
437
WRT 437: Rhetoric and Information Design

Catalog Description: Focuses on visual presentation of scientific and technical information, with emphasis on rhetorical approaches, design technologies, and digital presentation of finished work. Additional work required of graduate students (WRT 637). 3 credits :: Double Numbered with WRT 637 :: Histories and Theories

Outcomes 

Students will understand how to rhetorically analyze, re-state and convey information in multiple visual forms and textual genres. 

Students will understand audience factors and adjust their textual and visual writing to effectively convey information.  

Students will commuicate professional and/or technical information in ways that are primarily visual.  

Students will evaluate and work with a range of technologies to generate or manipulate visual designs, as well as share them online. 

Students will study the impact that different modes of communication have upon information through relevant readings, analysis, and production. 

Course/Teacher Evaluation Form

...

Anchor
440
440
WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing


Catalog Description: Study language and writing as sites of political contestation in local, national, and global contexts. Explore policy initiatives, theoretical debates, and effects of politics and history on language and writing in communities. 3 credits :: Repeatable :: Histories and Theories


Outcomes 

Students will recognize the central role of rhetoric in democracies and civic life and the responsibilities and opportunities for putting rhetorical knowledge to work in public realms, developing the ability to engage publicly in debates about issues of local, national, and global importance.

 Students will understand the power of rhetoric to symbolize and constitute meanings, create and contest knowledge, influence beliefs and attitudes, and mediate relationships of identity, conflict, community, class and power.

Students will explore how cultural contacts and new technologies facilitate cultural-rhetorical appropriations and hybridizations.

Students will develop the ability to work cooperatively and communicate effectively with people from different cultures, backgrounds, and language traditions, with an appreciation of how contexts and communities may shape distinctive forms of composing, language, rhetorical strategies, and intellectual work.

Students will study the politics of English and Englishes, especially as they apply to global economics, diaspora and written communication in cross-cultural, and transnational contexts. 

Students will examine text and audience construction in Englishes through rhetorical lenses, making connections between language, writing, cultures and global politics.


Course/Teacher Evaluation Form

...

Anchor
447
447
WRT 447: Professional & Technical Writing in Global Contexts


Catalog Description: Complexities arising in writing technical documents for a wide range of audiences, including other cultures and workplaces both domestically and internationally. Addresses ways that systems of knowledge, interfaces, design processes, and instructional mechanisms affect users. 3 credits :: Double Numbered with WRT 647 :: Histories and Theories

...

255|301|302|303|307|308|331|340|400|413|417|422|423|424|425|426|427|428|430|436|437|440|447

...