Current Course Offerings

Current and Recent Offerings

Fall 2013

WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing

TTH 9:30-10:50 (14321, M001)
Anne Fitzsimmons

MW 3:45-5:05 (15005, M002)
Emily Dressing

Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing.

WRT 301: Civic Writing: Accessing Civic Spaces

TTH 9:30-10:50 (13568, M001)
Allison Hitt

Course description coming soon.

3 credits-Genres & Practices Category

WRT 302: Digital Writing

TTH 5:00-6:20 (29632, M001)
Collin Gifford Brooke

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.

3 credits-Genres & Practices Category

WRT 303: Research Writing: Owning Your Writing

MW 12:45-2:05 (29490, M001)
Rebecca Moore Howard

In the vast field of cultural exploration and expansion that is the digital landscape, issues of intellectual property (IP)--trademarks, trade secrets, patents, copyright--often determine what may be explored and with what tools, as well as who benefits from inventing and developing cultural goods. In this course you will learn advanced techniques of research that you will apply to the investigation of IP issues in your own major or fields of interest. You will also learn how you can legally use other people's IP, as well as what your own rights are.

3 credits-Genres & Practices Category

WRT 307: Professional Writing

WRT 307 is taught by multiple instructors at various times. The following is the catalog description:
"Professional communication through the study of audience, purpose, and ethics. Rhetorical problem-solving principles applied to diverse professional writing tasks and situations."

3 credits—Genres & Practices Category

WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum

MW 2:15-3:35 (14116, M001)
Benjamin Erwin

Introduction to theories and methods of writing consultation. Topics include: social dynamics, grammar, ESL, LD, critical reading, writing process. Practices: observations, roles playing, peer groups, one-on-one. Writing intensive. Prereq: WRT 105, 205.

3 credits—Genres & Practices Category

WRT 400: Selected Topics: Rhetorical Listening and Composition

TTH 12:30-1:50 (29439, M001)
Patrick Berry

Have shallow public debates become the norm? Even if everything is an argument, how can we deepen our engagement, question our assumptions, and develop writing that is ethically and culturally responsible? In Rhetorical Listening and Composition, we will explore how “listening” was erased from the study of rhetoric and writing, how it became something that we do rather than something that we learn to do, and how it might be reconceived as a much-needed twenty-first-century literacy skill. The course is designed to help you develop a historical and theoretical understanding of rhetorical listening. You will partake in inquires (using a range of media) that urge cross-cultural dialogue and attend to how issues of class, race, and gender can impact what we see, hear, and write. A central inquiry of the course focuses on a space that too often remains invisible in public debates, both nationally and globally: the prison-industrial complex.

3 credits-Histories & Theories Category

WRT 413: Rhetoric and Ethics

MW 3:45-5:05 (30733, M001)
Kevin Browne

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.

3 credits-Histories & Theories Category

WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction: Stranger Than Fiction

MW 12:45-2:05 (14121, M001)
Minnie Bruce Pratt

Hidden facts and unspoken truths are sometimes "stranger than fiction." How do we write believably and convincingly about those complex realities? Students will focus on reading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) creative nonfiction (CNF) as a genre used to answer that question. Students will focus their writing on themes of bodies, genders and sexualities. CNF is particularly congenial to students writing from multiple perspectives, complex bodied identities, varied ethnicities and nationalities, several sexes or sexualities, multiple or trans gender experiences and layered locations and/or languages.

3 credits-Genres & Practices Category

WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction: Writing with a Sense of Adventure

TTH 11:00-12:20 (16462, M002)
Eileen Schell

Classic nonfiction adventure stories often involve feats of endurance, travel, risk, and exploration. But what does adventure writing mean in a world that is increasingly tame, settled, and steeped in the mundane? How is adventure a useful metaphor for understanding the nooks and crannies of everyday life? We'll work with an expanded definition of nonfiction adventure writing to include the fantastic and the unusual, but also the everyday and familiar, focusing on memoir, profile writing, the biographical sketch, and multi-media writing.

3 credits-Genres & Practices Category

WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction: The Lyric Essay

MW 5:15-6:35 (30139, M003)
Ivy Kleinbart

What is the lyric essay? Some say it's where poetry and nonfiction meet; it weaves memory and observation with research and reflection; it invites experimentation with form, movement, and style. Others say there's no such thing as the lyric essay--the traditional essay is plastic enough to accommodate essayists' most risky moves. In this course, we'll go in search of the lyric essay. We'll explore its possibilities and consider its hotly contested status within the literary world. Students will compose researched memoirs and literary journalism pieces in the form of lyric essays. Expect to write 4-5 pp. per week.

3 credits—Genres & Practices Category

WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity: Working Rhetorics: Labor and Identity

TTH 2:00 (29440, M001)
Lois Agnew

Most children know that the appropriate answer to the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” is not a description of personal traits, but the name of a specific career: firefighter, doctor, teacher, or nurse. In this course, we will interrogate the link between work and identity that this question assumes, as well as exploring how the connection between our work and our identities is rhetorically constructed in other types of social interactions. We will begin by reading historic arguments about the relationship between work and individual expression, consider how contemporary social conditions support or challenge that ideal, investigate how class, gender, and race shape the working identities that are available to particular people, and explore ways in which our vocational aspirations shape our conceptions of our own emerging identities. During the semester, you will assemble a portfolio that includes weekly blog entries, short analytical and reflective essays, and a major project.

3 credits—Histories & Theories Category

Prior Semesters

2012-2013


Spring 2013
WRT 200:Special Topics—DIY Publishing	Jason Luther
WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Steve Parks
WRT 303: Research and Writing: Research, History & You	Kate Navickas
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
WRT 308: Style: Pumping Up Your Prose	Tim Dougherty
WRT 340: Advanced Editing Studio	Patrick Berry
WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Gael Sweeney
WRT 426: Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology: Digital Identities	Collin Brooke
WRT 426: Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology: Digital Identities	George Rhinehart
WRT 427: Writing in Design and Development Environments	Krista Kennedy
WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy: The Language (of) Difference	Iswari Pandey

Fall 2012
WRT 200: Writing About Documentary Film	Anne Fitzsimmons
WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Nancy Wright
WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Collin Brooke
WRT 301: Civic Writing: Crossing Borders in Community Publishing	Benjamin Kuebrich
WRT 302: Digital Writing: Digitally Composed	Patrick Berry
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
WRT 331:Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Ben Erwin
WRT 422:Studies in Creative Nonfiction:Stranger than Fiction: LGBT Creative Nonfiction	Minnie Bruce Pratt
WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction: Landscape of/and Imagination	Steve Thorley
WRT 423: African American Rhetoric: Caribbean Rhet in Harlem, 1920-39	Kevin Browne
WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy: Digital Literacies	Collin Brooke
WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing: Writing Against the Law	Rebecca Howard

2011-2012

Spring 2012
WRT 200 : Special Topics—Introduction to Digital Writing: The Read/Write Web and You	Justin Lewis
WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Emily Dressing
WRT 303: Research and Writing—Real Writers, Real Research	Melissa Watson
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
WRT 308: Style	Nicole Gonzales-Howell
WRT 340: Advanced Editing Studio—Intertext	Patrick Berry
WRT 400: Special Topics—Visual Rhetoric	Collin Brooke
WRT 419/619: Advanced Technical Writing Workshop—Usability & Human Factors	Krista Kennedy
WRT 424: Rhetoric, Writing, and Identity—Caribbean Cybercultures	Kevin Brown
WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy—Asian-American Rhetoric & Writing	Iswari Pandey
WRT 430: Advanced Experience in Writing Consultation	Kiffen Dosch

Fall 2011
Rhetorical Tools for Writers—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Faith Plvan
Advancing Argument in Democracy --WRT 255 Advanced Argumentative Writing	Emily Dressing
Writing As A Community, Writing for Change—WRT 301: Civic Writin	Steve Parks
Writing in Digital Spaces—WRT 302 Digital Writing	George Rhinehart
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Style—WRT 308 Style	Kevin Browne
Writing in the Center—WRT 331 Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Kiffen Dosch
Writing With Video—WRT 400: Special Topics	Patrick Berry
Stranger Than Fiction —WRT 422 Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Minnie Bruce Pratt
Authorship and Identity— WRT 424 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Rebecca Moore Howard
Digital Identities—WRT 426 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology	Krista Kennedy
Writing Across World Englishes—WRT 440 Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing	Iswari Pandey

2010-2011

Spring 2011
Rhetorical Tools for Writers—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Faith Plvan
Be the Change: Community Writing—WRT 300: Special Topics	Steve Parks
Writing for Digital Democracy—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Collette Caton
Writing/Research & Authority—WRT303: Research and Writing	Jeanette Jeneault
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Demystifying Style—WRT 308: Style	Lois Agnew
Global Rhetorics—WRT 400: Special Topics	Iswari Pandey
The Lyric Essay—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Ivy Kleinbart
How Narrative Structures Knowledge—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Maureen Puetzer
Rhetoric and Spirituality—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	TJ Geiger

Fall 2010
Arguing in Public—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Melissa Kizina
Beneficial Arguments—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Steve Parks
Writing, Rhetoric, and Community Literacy—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Tom Girshin
The Digital DIY—WRT 302: Digital Writing	Rachael Shapiro
WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Emily Dressing
Information Design— WRT 400/600: Special Topics	Krista Kennedy
Stranger Than Fiction—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Minnie Bruce-Pratt
Queer Writing—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Margaret Himley
Feminist Rhetoric(s)—WRT 436: WRT/CRS/WGS 436 meets with CCR/CRS/WGS 636	Gwendolyn Pough
Writers' Rights and Risks—WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing	Rebecca Moore Howard

2009-2010

Spring 2010
Advanced Argumentative Writing—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Tricia Serviss
Research Noir—WRT 303: Writing & Research	Jeff Simmons
Style—WRT 308: Style	Carolyn Hanlon
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Writing With Video—WRT 400: Special Topics	George Rhinehart
Vision and Voice—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	John Colasacco
Rhetorics of Resistance—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Laurie Gries
Rhetoric and/as Design—WRT426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology	Collin Gifford Brooke
Emerging Technologies in Prof. & Technical Communication—WRT427/627: Wrt in Design & Development Environments	Krista Kennedy

Fall 2009
Rhetorical Tools for Writers—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Faith Plvan
Writing, Publics, and Power—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Adam Banks
Writing as Rebellion—WRT301: Civic Writing	Janell Haynes
Otherwords—WRT302: Digital Writing	Collin Gifford Brooke
Writers Beyond the Classroom—WRT331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Jason Luther
The Ethics of Rhetoric: Truth or Flattery?—WRT400: Special Topics	Lois Agnew
Studies in Narrative and Post Memoir—WRT422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Donna Marsh-O'Connor
e-Merging Identities—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Ty O'Bryan

2008-2009

Spring 2009
Rhetorical Tools for Writers—WRT 255: Advanced Argumentative Writing	Louise Wetherbee Phelps
Writing, Publics, and Power—WRT 301:Advanced Writing Studio: Civic Writing	Kelly Rawson
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Wild and Whirling Words—WRT308: Style	Jeremiah Thompson
Versions of Reality—WRT422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Gael Sweeney
African American Rhetoric—WRT423: African American Rhetoric	Gwendolyn Pough
Queer Writing—WRT424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Margaret Himley
Digital Underground: Black Music & Technology—WRT426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology	Adam Banks

Fall 2008
Arguing Publicly, Arguing Personally—WRT 255 : Advanced Argumentative Writing	Eileen E. Schell
Writing the Election—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Lois Agnew
Writing in Digital Spaces—WRT 302: Digital Writing	George Rhinehart
The Rhetorics of Research—WRT 303: Research Writing	Tricia Serviss
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Writers Beyond the Classroom—WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Jason Luther
Stranger than Fiction—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Minnie Bruce Pratt
Writing in the City—WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy	Steve Parks
Rhetoric and Politics of the Black Sermon—WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing	Adam Banks

2007-2008

Spring 2008
Argument and Community—WRT 255 : Advanced Argumentative Writing	Lois Agnew
Civic Space in New City—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Christina Feikes
Scholarship in Action—WRT 303: Research Writing	Madeline Yonker
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
It's All About How You Say It—WRT 308: Style	Molly Voorheis
Life, Love, and Liberation —WRT 423: African American Rhetoric	Adam Banks
Rap, Race, Rhetoric, and Identity—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Gwendolyn Pough
Writing the Digital Divide—WRT 426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology	Iswari Pandey

Fall 2007
Writing for Local and Global Audiences—WRT 255 : Advanced Argumentative Writing	Iswari Pandey
Engagement Through Writing—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Adam Banks
Writing the Digital Zeitgeist—WRT 302: Digital Writing	Ty O'Bryan
Writing for Enthusiasts—WRT 303: Research Writing	Henry Jankiewicz
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Writing Beyond the Classroom—WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Jason Luther
Stranger Than Fiction—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Minnie Bruce Pratt
Writing in Schools and Communities—WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy	Jonna Gilfus
Writing About The Media—WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing	Steve Thorley

2006-2007

Spring 2007
Writing For Our Local and Global Communities: The Word, the Image, and the Screen—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Eileen Schell
Research Writing in an Online World—WRT 303: Research Writing	Kurt Stavenhagen
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Stylin'—WRT 308: Style	Jeff Simmons
Writers Beyond Classrooms—WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Jason Luther
Public Intellectuals, Cultural Critics, and “Pop Culture” Analysts: Writing Self and Society—WRT 422: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Gwendolyn Pough
Troubling Bodies: Race, Gender, and Sexuality—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Elisa Norris
Writing for Web 2.0 —WRT 426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology	Collin Gifford Brooke

Fall 2006
The Active Writer—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Lois Agnew
The Digital and Its Links—WRT 302: Digital Writing	Derek Mueller
Radical Syracuse—WRT 303: Research Writing	Nance Hahn
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Peer Consultant Practicum—WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Jason Luther
Where Do We Go From Here? Contemporary African American Rhetoric—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Adam Banks
Authors, Writers, Heroes—WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy	Rebecca Moore Howard
Class Warfare: Campus & Community—WRT 440: Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing	Steve Parks

2005-2006

Spring 2006
From Spray Paint to Blogs: Activist Writing —WRT 301: Civic Writing	Steve Park
Research Noir—WRT 303: Research Writing	Jeff Simmons
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Constructing Style—WRT 308: Style	Lois Agnew
Advanced Editing Studio—WRT 340: Advanced Editing Studio	Chris Madden-Feikes
Writing a Sense of Place: A Creative Nonfiction Workshop —WRT 422: Studies in Creative Nonfiction	Eileen Schell
Race, Rhetoric, and Technology —WRT 426: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Information Technology	Adam Banks


Fall 2005
Writing for Change—WRT 301: Civic Writing	Molly Voorheis
Jacking the Frame (Technological Remediation and Re-culturation)—WRT 302: Digital Writing	Madeline Yonker
Argument in the 21st Century—WRT 303: Research Writing	Rebecca Moore Howard
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Vivian Rice
WRT 427/627: Writing in Design and Development Environments (Online)	George Rhinehart
Sermons, Standups, and the Spoken Word: Rhetoric in the African American Oral Tradition —WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Adam Banks
Black Women and Literacy—WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy	Gwendolyn Pough
Language and the Public—WRT 440 : Studies in the Politics of Language and Writing	Lois Agnew

2004-2005

Spring 2005
</writing>—WRT 302: Digital Writing	George Rhinehart
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Experimenting With Styles—WRT 308: Style	Rebecca Moore Howard
WRT 340: Advanced Editing Studio	Eileen Moeller
The Art of Creating Memoir—WRT 422: Studies in Creative Non-Fiction	Maureen Puetzer
Paul Robeson, the Black Left, and the Movement Between the Movements—WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity)	Adam Banks
WRT 430: Advanced Writing Consultation	Vivian Rice

Fall 2004
Environmental Activism—WRT 301: Civic Writing	David Nentwick
Language, Culture, and Information —WRT 303: Research and Writing	Tennyson O'Donnell
WRT 307: Professional Writing	Multiple Instructors
Peer Writing Consultant Practicum—WRT 331: Peer Writing Consultant Practicum	Vivian Rice
Memoir and Public Voice —WRT 422: Studies in Creative Non-Fiction	Amanda Brown
Self-Presentation/Media Representation —WRT 424: Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and Identity	Burgess
Writing, Schools, and Power —WRT 428: Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Literacy	Jonna Gilfus

Last modified: November 27, 2012