Spring 2023 WRT courses

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

Course	Title	Day	Time	Instructor	Room	Syllabus	Description
WRT 114	Writing Culture			Multiple Instructors			Nonacademic writing; creative nonfiction, memoir, the essay. Students write texts experimenting with style, genre, and subject; read contemporary nonfiction texts by varied authors; attend lectures/readings of visiting writers.
WRT 117 M001	Writing, Rhetoric, and Satire	TTH	2:00-3:20	John Colasacco			Rhetorical study and practice of satirical writing in response to sociopolitical issues and their discursive contexts. Emphasizes rhetorical strategies used to produce persuasive, culturally relevant, satirical texts across various genres.
WRT 118 M001	Writing for a Better You	TTH	12:30-1:50	Lida Colon			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 M001	Advanced Argumentative Writing	MW	5:15-6:35	Larry Morgan			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 M002	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 304 M001	Indigenous Writing and Rhetoric	MW	3:35-5:05	Zakery R. Muñoz			“The truth about stories is that that’s all we are,” writes Cherokee writer Thomas King, reminding us that storytelling is a rhetorical act that makes us human. Together we will acknowledge our relationship to story and land, centering Indigenous thinking and ways of being. This course engages a variety of genres with a specific focus on contemporary Indigenous rhetorics that subvert and respond to problematic settler colonial narratives. Students will learn how to research and craft their own writing in ways that embody Indigenous knowledge making. (G&P)
WRT 307	Advanced Writing Studio: 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 340 M001	Advanced Editing Studio (Intertext)	Friday	9:30-12:15	Patrick W. Berry			What does it take to produce a publication from start to finish? In this course, we will explore publication processes: reviewing past issues of Intertext, analyzing audience, reading and selecting submissions, editing copy, finding and creating visual content, designing layouts, and developing supplemental editorial content. We will also explore production and manufacturing costs as well as issues pertaining to marketing, social media, promotion, and advertising. The ultimate goal is to create the 2023 issue of Intertext along with a supplemental Web-based component. (G&P)
WRT 413 M001	Rhetoric and Ethics	TTH	11:00-12:20	Tony Scott			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 417 M001	Advanced Technical Documentation: Usability and User Experience	TTH	9:30-10:50	Lenny Grant			User Experience (UX) Design shapes everyday life: from EXIT signs above doors to illustrations showing how to take medications. In this course, we’ll study the design principles behind UX, and analyze websites, apps, and even games to uncover how UX shapes the way we rhetorically compose, experience, and communicate information. You’ll apply this knowledge as we produce technical documents across various media, and evaluate works using heuristic evaluation, usability testing, and more. You’ll gain an understanding of the ideas and vocabulary behind usability and UX, and a portfolio of your own work in the genre. (G&P)
WRT 422 M001	Studies in Creative Nonfiction: Writing Your Journey	TTH	12:30-1:50	Eileen E. Schell			Nonfiction narratives often involve stories of epic journeys, whether travel writing, adventure narratives, athletic feats, spiritual quests, or a specific journey that is identified by the phase(s) you occupy in your life. This course will involve reading and writing nonfiction pieces connected to the concept of the journey as you define it. We will both survey and compose different approaches to writing the story of a journey through focusing on memoir, profiles, the personal essay, place-based writing, travel writing, and multimodal writing.
WRT 424 M001	Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity: Identity Rhetoric in Conflict	TTH	2:00-3:20	Tony Scott			Jia Tolentino writes that in recent years “identity, culture, technology, politics, and discourse seemed to coalesce into an unbearable supernova of perpetually escalating conflict.” In this anxious time of heightened political conflict and continual pressure to curate identities in social media, the lines between identity performances and our lived senses of ourselves can blur. In this class you will have the space to explore rhetorics of identity with the goal of finding language and genres that open up new ways for you to express your identity as complicated, emotionally imbued and always evolving. (H&T)
WRT 426 M001	Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology: Playing with Race	TTH	3:30-4:50	Joshua Wood			How can we use video games to challenge narratives around race? What stories can we tell about our experiences through games? This course will examine nonwhite identities in video games, and what potential games offer for telling different stories. We’ll play multiple video games, popular and indie, to address these questions. Together, we’ll analyze these games and pull back the curtain to look deeper into the rhetoric of game design. We will put that knowledge into practice as we build digital games of our own, and discover the ways that we imbue our identities into the work we create. (H&T)