Fall 2020 WRT Courses

Linked course titles have extended descriptions. Syllabi provided where available.

Course	Title	Day	Time	Instructor	Room	Syllabus	Description
WRT 255 M001	Advanced Argumentative Writing	TTh	11-12:20	Eileen Schell			Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing. (Core Requirement for Majors & Minors.)
WRT 255 M002	Advanced Argumentative Writing	TTh	12:30-1:50	Emily Dressing			Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing. (Core Requirement for Majors & Minors.)
WRT 302 M001	Digital Writing	TTh	6:30-7:50	Stephanie Jones			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. (Core Requirement for Majors.)
WRT 303 M001	Research and Writing: Researching Place/Placing Research	TTh	3:30-4:50	Brice Nordquist			Place provides a powerful link for building shared conversations about research, writing, and public scholarship across disciplines. Through archival and oral history research, we will explore histories of placemaking at Syracuse University and in surrounding neighborhoods and retell these histories through the creation of a series of interrelated and annotated maps and walking tours. We will consider how place-based research can help us rethink the histories, knowledges, and politics around shared, interdisciplinary social problems and collaborative interventions. (G&P
WRT 307	Professional Writing			Multiple Instructors			Professional communication through the study of audience, purpose, and ethics. Rhetorical problem-solving principles applied to diverse professional writing tasks and situations. (Core Req for Majors.)
WRT 331 M001	Writing Center Peer Tutor Practicum	MW	2:15-3:35	Ben Erwin			In this course, students will discover more about what it means to be an effective Writing Center tutor. The course covers a mixture of Writing Center history, theory, and pedagogy, with an emphasis on real-world experience and application. The course culminates with students serving as consultants in the Writing Center. (G&P)
WRT 413 M001	Rhetoric and Ethics	MW	3:45-5:05	Rebecca Moore Howard			Introduces historical conversations concerning rhetoric's ethical responsibilities and explores complications that emerge as assumed historic connections between language and truth, justice, community, and personal character are deployed in various social, political, cultural, national, and transnational contexts. (Core Requirement for Majors.)
WRT 422 M001	Studies in Creative Nonfiction: TBA	MW	5:15-6:35	TBD			Particular topics in the analysis and practice of creative nonfiction. Attention to cultural contexts and authorship. Possible genres include memoir, travel writing, nature writing, experimental or hybrid writing, and the personal essay. (G&P)
WRT 426 M001	Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology: Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole	TTh	8-9:20	Aaron Duplantier			Ever lose time watching YouTube? It is a bottomless pit of content. When it comes to “genre,” YouTube is the internet’s richest platform: Vlogs, Mukbangs, ASMR, Let’s Plays, Tutorials, Sing-Alongs, Pranks, Unboxing, etc.—all the amateur content that’s become successful other places online (TikTok, Instagram, Twitch) got its start on YouTube. Drawing from its deep library dating back to 2005, we will interrogate YouTube’s genres, trends, controversies, and cultures. Students will create and submit their own videos and write about and study theories of information technology. (H&T)
WRT 428 M001	Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy: Visual Texts, Border Rhetorics, and Public Policy	TTh	2-3:20	Genevieve García de Müeller			Nation states increasingly integrate public policy influenced by global politics and economic development, particularly evident in bordering regions like the U.S and Mexico, Syria and Israel, and the U.K. and EU. We will examine the visual, public, and policy rhetoric in border regions today by reviewing the historic, geographic, demographic, cultural, economic, social and political dimensions of border regions. Assessing the economic conditions, governance structures, social policy issues, and binational relations via artifacts may include examination of art, activist work, rules and regulations, documentaries, and archive materials. (H&T)
WRT 437 M001	Rhetoric and Information Design	M	6:45-8:05	Lenny Grant			Well-designed documents and visuals help us to understand complex information, like the global spread of disease, climate change, and political elections. This course surveys basic theories and elements of visual communication and rhetoric, as well as principles of document design and data visualization. Beyond learning how to use graphic and document design software, students will develop a sensibility to evaluate, design, and redesign documents in a number of scientific, technical, and professional genres. This hybrid course meets once per week on campus and asynchronously online. Students from all majors welcome! (G&P)