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The Major Core
The four course core is required of all Writing and Rhetoric Majors.
WRT 255: Advanced Writing Studio: Advanced Argumentative Writing (3 credits)Anchor 255 255
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) Anchor 302 302
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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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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Catalog Description: Particular topics in the relations among identity, culture, and power in writing and rhetoric. How writing identities emerge in relation to cultural constructions of race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, aging, disability. 3 credits :: Repeatable :: Histories and Theories
Outcomes
Students will engage in thoughtful discourse on a variety of factors—gender, class, race, ethnicity, disability, context, etc.—that contribute to their understanding, articulation, and performance of identity.
Students will employ a range of research methods, argumentation and language styles, concepts of knowledge, forms of evidence, and genres.
Students will understand the power of rhetoric to symbolize meanings, create and contest knowledge, influence beliefs and attitudes, and mediate the interplay of identity, conflict, community, and power.
Students will recognize that the generation of knowledge through research is a rhetorical practice occurring in diverse communities.
Students will demonstrate recognition of the complex and varied roles that contemporary information, communication technologies, and social media play in rhetoric and writing
Students will acquire an adaptable rhetorical repertoire.
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Catalog Description: Applies rhetorical principles to the study of writing for social media. Areas of inquiry include rhetorical implications of identity construction, design, and analysis of (social) media platforms. Students prepare and develop an electronic portfolio. 3 credits :: Genre and Practices
Outcomes
Students will understand the role of rhetoric in successful construction of digital identities and ways of conducting agile rhetorical analysis in order to determine what tone and content is best for the situation at hand.
Students will explore the ways in which skill sets can be best developed and showcased for targeted professional audiences.
Students will develop critical skills for assessing emerging technologies, privacy risks, search factors, and connections within social networks.
Students will explore central aspects of digital genres that facilitate creation of professional identities, including digital resumes, short-form writing, integration of multimodal artifacts, and effective pushing/crossing of social media streams.
Students will develop the ability to construct basic digital presences from the ground up, including project planning, mapping information architectures, content management, text conversion, and managing aspects of site development that require no or minimal coding.
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Catalog Description: Particular topics in the study of technology-mediated communication, emphasizing digital discourses and culture. Includes practice and analysis of new genres and rhetorics with attention to their social and political meaning, contexts, and use. 3 credits :: Repeatable :: Histories and Theories
Outcomes
Students will examine emerging genres, practices, and communities related to digital technologies.
Students will explore the impact of digital technologies on contemporary rhetorical practices.
Students will deepen their familiarity with modes and platforms for digital writing through relevant readings, analysis, and production.
Students will consider technology in its material, embodied, and cultural dimensions.
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