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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 417: Technical Documentation & Usability

Catalog Description: Builds on technical writing fundamentals, focusing on practical techniques and extensive practice designing and writing technical product/process documents. Includes audience assessment, task analyses, use-case scenarios, usability testing, and end-use documentation.Additional work required of graduate students (WRT 617).  3 credits :: Double Numbered with WRT 617 :: Genres and Practices 

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WRT 423: African American Rhetoric


Catalog Description: Examines the debates, strategies, styles, and forms of persuasive practices employed by African Americans with each other, and in dialogue within the United States. 3 credits :: Histories and Theories


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Students will become familiar with African American rhetoric, the contributions of its major figures, and its major theories. 

Students will engage in sustained inquiry into African American rhetoric expression, communication, and the orientation toward social action. 

Students will understand African American rhetorics in relation to the classical rhetorical and its functions. 

Students will gain knowledge about the implications of technology (and technological conventions) in African American public life. 

Students will develop an awareness and appreciation of inclusivity and open-mindedness as rhetorical values.


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WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity

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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