Fall 2023 WRT courses

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

Course	Title	Day	Time	Instructor	Room	Syllabus	Description
WRT 115	Writing, Rhetoric, and the Environment	TTh	9:30 - 10:50	Peter Astras			Rhetorical study and practice of critical, research-based writing in response to environmental issues and their material and discursive contexts. Emphasizes audience and genre-awareness to produce persuasive, culturally situated interventions in environmental debates.
WRT 116	Writing, Rhetoric, and Social Action	TTh	11:00 - 12:20	Sidney Turner			Examination of persuasive strategies of written arguments and genres intended to support and promote social action.
WRT 118	Writing for a Better You	TTh	12:30 - 1:50	Lenny Grant			Rhetorical study and practice of expressive writing as a personally beneficial activity, considering issues and applications in mental, physical, spiritual, and social health. Emphasizes writing processes with attention to genre, writing space, writing practices.
WRT 255	Advanced Writing Studio: Advanced Argumentative Writing	TTh	9:30 - 10:50	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 301	Writing for Environmental Justice	TTh	3:30 - 4:50	Brice Nordquist			WRT 301 offers you opportunities to communicate—actively, competently, and with critical awareness—about complex problems in public life. In this iteration of the course, we’ll study and produce projects at the intersections of environmental and social justice in conjunction with the Environmental Storytelling Series of Central New York. Through the work of the course, students will produce issue guides to 1.) introduce a specific and regionally relevant environmental issue; 2.) represent the full complexity of this issue to a broad public audience; and 3) offer possibilities for individual and collective action. (G&P)
WRT 302	Advanced Writing Studio: Digital Writing	MW	12:45 - 2:05	Kevin Adonis Browne			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 307	Advanced Studio: Professional Writing	Various	Various	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 413	Rhetoric and Ethics	TTh	2:00 - 3:20	Lenny Grant			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	Writing, Memory, and Meaning	TTh	11:00 - 12:20	Patrick W. Berry			As we consider our stories, we all must contend with what we remember, what we forget, and what we don't understand. Writing can help us recover and make sense of the stories we carry with us, those that we recollect with ease and those that exist only in fragments. This version of the course will grapple with issues of memory and personal truth and explore how our stories intersect with broader social and political issues. It will involve reading and writing a wide range of nonfiction pieces that contend with issues of remembering and the ethics of representation. (G&P)
WRT 423	Rhetoric as Tactical Resistance and Meaning Making	TTh	12:30 - 1:50	Alicia Hatcher			Bodies, voices, spaces and places—We all are bound by them as part of our corporeal existences, and Black people in the United States have used and continue to use them as tactical tools for engaging in social activism against ongoing systemic oppressions and the systems that undergird and reinforce them. We will examine 1) how these types of resistances extend from and exist as part of an epistemological framework (a way of knowing), and 2) become part of the rhetorical process of building arguments in and outside of Black communities. (H&T)
WRT 425	Digital Futures	MW	3:45 - 5:05	Kevin Adonis Browne			How do we define and practice our humanity in the evolving age of algorithms and artificial intelligences? How do our identities help us understand and shape the world we want to see? How do we navigate the persistence of digital divides? As a way of addressing these questions, this course will examine the rhetoric of digital identity in a series of social media platforms and contexts, which may include ChatGPT, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and others. Topics of study will include language, politics, and popular culture, to name a few. Students will produce short assignments and an original multimedia research project. (G&P)
WRT 428	Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Literacy:	MW	5:15 - 6:35	TBA			We are all increasingly tasked with considering global audiences in our writing, yet global inequalities raise questions of access, accountability, and power in how we communicate across difference. What role does English play in perpetuating such inequalities, and how can we ethically engage language practices beyond those historically privileged by the academy? We will approach these questions by considering how scholars from transnational perspectives write and theorize about translation, and we will learn methods for conducting rhetorical and sociolinguistic fieldwork on the power of local language policies and practices. While you will investigate how your communities use and transform language, no prior translation or multilingual learning experience is required. (H&T)
WRT 495	Senior Research Seminar I	F	11:40 AM - 12:35 PM	Patrick W. Berry