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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 301: Advanced Writing Studio: Civic Writing

Catalog Description: Practical skills necessary for effective civic or advocacy writing. Examines the nature of public(s) and applies theoretical understandings to practical communication scenarios. 3 credits :: Genres and Practices

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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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The Ethics of Rhetoric: Truth or Flattery? (Lois Agnew, Fall 2009; regularized as WRT 413)

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WRT 417: Technical Documentation & Usability

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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

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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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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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

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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. 

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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.

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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

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