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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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WRT 301: Advanced Writing Studio: Civic Writing
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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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The Ethics of Rhetoric: Truth or Flattery? (Lois Agnew, Fall 2009; regularized as WRT 413)
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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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Thorley Syllabus and Materials
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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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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
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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
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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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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
Outcomes
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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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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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
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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