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)
Fulfills WR1 requirement.
To be taken during Freshman year.
WRTG 2010 Intermediate Writing (3)
Fulfills WR2 requirement.
To be taken during Freshman year.
Upper Division WRTG Courses (3000+) cannot be taken until AFTER successful completion of WRTG 2010.
Upper Division Courses
Total Completions Allowed: 3 Total Units Allowed: 9
Fulfills Upper Division CW
This course introduces students to professional discourse, such as legal, medical,
governmental, media, or non-profit. Course content may include discourses of legislation,
sustainability, risk assessment, world health organizations, legal precedent, and
the like. Using a variety of theories and methods for gathering and analyzing professional
discourses, students will consider the ways in which professional discourses intersect
with larger discourses of power and ideology. Variable topics.
Total Completions Allowed: 2 Total Units Allowed: 6
This course is designed to give students an introduction to gender research that is
distinctly rhetorical. Students will use theories from contemporary and classical
rhetoric and criticism to interrogate the construction and performance of gender in
a variety of social settings and media, the gendering of the writing studies/writing
instruction, and the gendering of the tradition of rhetoric itself.