Course Information
The Department of Writing & Rhetoric offers courses that help you improve and expand on your powers of written expression.
These courses are tailored to help you be a better writer, not only in your major, but in your professional and personal life as well. Don’t shortchange yourself. Make the most of your university education. Check out our courses and "get it in writing."
General Education Courses
WRTG 1010 Introduction to Academic Writing (3)
WRTG 2010 Intermediate Writing (3)
Upper Division Courses
Principles and practices of technical editing are the focus of this course.Students will explore the roles of technical editors in manuscript preparation of both hard copy and digital texts. Students will also learn strategies fordifferent levels of copyediting, including comprehensive copyediting and line editing, using both practice documents and texts for a client.Students from related disciplines welcome.
Upper Division WRTG Courses (3000+) cannot be taken until AFTER successful completion of WRTG 2010.
- Survey the paradigms of mass culture and cultural theory
- Decode the visual, semiotic, and cinematographic elements that convey meaning
- Read Black Mirror from different theoretical perspectives
Develop meaningful claims and support those claims with authoritative research, logical reasoning, and thoughtful analysis - Engage the series critically and creatively, encouraging students to become more active critics and contributors to pop culture discourse
And what can zombies, cannibals, cyborgs and androids tell us about ourselves?
Students from related disciplines welcome.
Components: Independent Study
Topics vary according to scholarly interests.
We will use theory, novels, movies, music videos, and other cultural artifacts to explore and analyze the performances of gender in humans and humanoid robots.
And we are going to have a blast as we watch and discuss movies such as Her and Ex Machina and read novels such as Frankenstein and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
previous courses and culminates their work into
individual portfolios.