This course is designed as an opportunity to explore the power of music and its relationship with writing and rhetoric traditions. Over the course of the class, students investigate the contours of that relationship—from music’s power to influence our personal tastes and transverse the depths of our cultural ideals, to its ability to represent and communicate emotions that are otherwise difficult to express. The class also provides students an opportunity to focus on the difficult but rewarding task of attempting to bridge the gap between language and music. Students study the art of writing about music, and in so doing, learn to use language to describe what makes music so indescribable.

Prepares students for professional and public careers in the Arts and Humanities by emphasizing reading and writing arguments and the kinds of writing needed in further study and executive positions: summaries, analyses, proposals, research notes, personal essays, reviews and hybrid genres. Explores multiple media and genres through collaborative projects, electronic writing, instruction in revision and editing, and exploratory writing to discover ideas. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.

• Section -001 meets In Person MoWe/08:05AM-09:25AM
• Section -002 meets Hybrid Th/10:45AM-12:05PM
• Sections -090 and -091 meet Online

Designed to help students in the sciences develop the skills needed for scientific research and communication. Provides students with the opportunity to write in the variety of forms that they are likely to encounter in their professional lives (i.e. memos, proposals, reports, presentations) in a scientific context. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.

Focuses on strategies for communicating successfully with business audiences. Students employ composition technologies to prepare different types of workplace texts, including emails, memos, proposals, reports, resumes and presentations. Emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving in a business context. WRTG 2010 or its equivalent prior to this course.

Writing 3020 is an upper-division course designed for students who are new the University of Utah and have completed Writing 1010/2010 elsewhere. Using concepts, research methodologies, and genres from the field of writing studies, this course builds on transfer students' prior knowledge and experiences -- including their distinctive writing strengths -- while providing an opportunity to learn about University resources and examine research and writing practices in their major discipline. In addition to fostering rhetorical awareness and disciplinary writing knowledge, Writing 3020 offers opportunities to connect with peers, faculty, and staff in order to make the most of the academic and professional opportunities available to undergraduates at the University of Utah.

This course is an interdisciplinary study in online and networked research methodology. Prepares students to develop efficient, effective, and ethical research methods for online environments through qualitative and quantitative activities including: website analysis, link traces, data collection, information visualization, interviews, collaboration, search engine optimization, data coding, and social network analysis. Course topics will vary to account for emerging research technologies and instructor/student interest.

This course is a gateway course for those interested in pursuing a career in professional and technical communication, as well as for students interested in communicating effectively within their chosen field. The course introduces students to the foundations of professional and technical communication, workplace communication practices, and the most recent research in digital communication and social media. The class will also explore contemporary issues related to professional communication - from issues of usability and ethics to information design.

A survey of select rhetorical theories across peoples, places, and times. Emphasizes connections between rhetoric and writing. Students will be introduced to global rhetorical traditions and contemporary rhetorical theories, including critical rhetorical perspectives from groups historically excluded from the European/Euro-American canon. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 3870 prior to this course

Prepares student to write for culturally and linguistically diverse audiences for various purposes. Emphasizes linguistic and rhetorical considerations in print and electronic texts. Focus on critical appreciation of English as an international language. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.

Designing for Usability is a course that will prepare you for writing in the workplace. Students will learn principles of document design to help them meet the needs of intended audiences. Students will also be introduced to different methods of gathering user feedback to determine whether texts -- such as instructions or brochures or websites -- are effectively designed. The class will then work together to help a local nonprofit organization improve its website. Students are advised to take WRTG 2010 or its equivalent prior to this course.

This course brings together aspects of students' previous courses and culminates their work into individual portfolios. All majors must take this course. The course should be taken Senior year.

In this course, students will be introduced to threshold concepts in writing studies. Emphasizes the cultural rhetorical practices that have given rise to and shape writing across places, peoples, and times. Students will be introduced to various forms of writing, research that considers the impact of material and social factors on writing systems, and theories that examine the relationships writing creates between writers, readers, and places. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.