WRT 104 Introduction to College-Level
Writing (3 credits)
Introduction to college-level reading and writing practices:
learning to compose for college audiences, to read challenging texts
actively, to make interpretations and claims, and to collaborate with
others. Does not substitute for WRT 105.
WRT 105 Studio 1: Practices of Academic Writing
(3 credits)
Study and practice of writing processes, including critical reading,
collaboration, revision, editing, and the use of technologies. Focuses
on the aims, strategies, and conventions of academic prose, especially
analysis and argumentation.
WRT 109 Studio 1: Practices of Academic Writing
(Honors) (3 credits)
Intensive version of WRT 105 for students of demonstrated exceptional
ability.
WRT 110 Writing Studio Independent Study (1-3
credits)
Special workshops offering intensive instruction in writing.
Prereq: permission of department.
WRT 114 Writing Culture (3
credits)
Emphasizes nonacademic writing--creative nonfiction, memoir, the essay.Ê Students write texts experimenting with style, genre, and subject, read contemporary nonfiction texts by varied authors, attend lectures/readings of visiting writers.
WRT 120 Writing Enrichment (1-3 credits)
Special instruction, graded pass/fail. Will not fulfill basic
skill requirement. Prereq: permission of department.
WRT 195 Studio 2 for Transfer Students (3 credits)
Combines salient features of WRT 105 and WRT 205, with an emphasis on analysis, argumentation, and critical, research-based writing. Students complete at least one sustained research project.
WRT 205 Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing
(3 credits)
Study and practice of critical, research-based writing, including
research methods, presentation genres, source evaluation, audience
analysis, and library/online research. Students complete at least
one sustained research project.
WRT 209 Studio 2: Critical Research and Writing
(Honors) (3 credits)
Intensive version of WRT 205 for students of demonstrated exceptional
ability. Prereq: WRT 105,109, or equivalent.
WRT 220 Writing Enrichment
(1-3 credits)
Special instruction in writing, graded on pass-fail basis. Will not
fulfill basic skills requirement. Prereq: permission of instructor.
WRT 255 Advanced Writing Studio: Advanced Argumentative Writing (3 credits)
Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing.
WRT 301 Advanced Writing Studio: Civic
Writing (3 credits)
Practical skills necessary for effective civic or advocacy writing.
Examines the nature of public(s) and applies theoretical understandings
to practical communication scenarios
WRT 302 Advanced Writing Studio: Digital
Writing (3 credits)
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.
WRT 303 Advanced Writing Studio: Research
and Writing (3 credits)
Sustained research and writing project in a student's field of study
or area of interest. Analysis of the rhetorics and methodologies of
research.
WRT 307 Advanced Writing Studio: Professional
Writing (3 credits)
Professional communication through the study of audience, purpose,
and ethics. Rhetorical problem-solving principles applied to diverse
professional writing tasks and situations.
WRT 308 Advanced Writing Studio: Style
(3 credits)
Study and experiment with contemporary writing styles,designs,and
editing conventions. Practice writing in multiple genres for different
audiences, purposes, and effects. Explore rhetorical, aesthetic, social,
and political dimensions of style.
WRT 331 Peer Writing Consultant Practicum
(3 credits)
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.
WRT 340 Advanced Editing Studio (3
credits; repeatable)
Students will produce INTERTEXT, an anthology of student writing in
the Writing Program. This extensive editorial project will include:
processing manuscripts, production of the anthology, marketing, and
public relations tasks. Prereq: One or more Writing Studio classes
and permission of instructor.
WRT 400 Special Topics (3 credits;
repeatable)
WRT 400 is an advanced undergraduate writing seminar on topics in
composition or cultural rhetoric.
WRT 407 Advanced Workshop in Professional,
Disciplinary, or Technical Writing (3
credits; repeatable)
Support for professional, disciplinary, or technical writing strategies
and genres required for advanced or capstone projects, courses, portfolios,
or work experience. Linked to a particular course or major requirement.
WRT 417/617 Advanced Technical Documentation
(3 credits)
This course builds on technical writing fundamentals, focusing
on practical techniques and extensive practice designing and writing
technical product/process documents. Course activities include audience
assessment, task analyses, use-case scenarios, usability testing,
and end-user documentation.
WRT 419/619 Advanced Technical Writing
Workshop (3 credits)
Intensive experience in writing technical texts. Additional work required
of graduate students.
WRT 422 Studies in Creative Nonfiction
(3 credits; repeatable)
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.
WRT 423 African American Rhetoric
(3 credits)
Examines the debates, strategies, styles, and forms of persuasive practices employed by African Americans with each other, and in dialogue with the larger nation.
WRT 424 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric, and
Identity (3 credits; repeatable)
Particular topics in the relations among identity, culture, and power
in writing and rhetoric. How writing identities emerge in relation
to cultural constructions of race, nationality, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, aging, disability.
WRT 426 Studies in Writing, Rhetoric,
and Information Technology (3 credits;
repeatable)
Particular topics in the study of technology-mediated communication,
emphasizing digital discourses and culture. Includes practice and
analysis of new genres and rhetorics with attention to their social
and political meaning, contexts, and use.
WRT 427/627 Writing in Design and Development
Environments (3 credits)
An advanced technical writing course for professionals in design
and development environments, focusing on writing that design and
development teams perform regularly, with emphasis on writing embedded
in system analysis, design, and implementation processes.
WRT 428 Studies in Composition, Rhetoric,
and Literacy (3 credits; repeatable)
Particular topics in the theories and studies of writing, including
style, community literacy, authorship, and rhetorical genres. Places
writing in historical and cultural contexts.
WRT 430 Advanced
Experience in Writing Consultation (3 credits; repeatable)
Continuation of consultant experience of WRT 331. Work independently
in their majors or the Writing Program, schedule 30 hours of consulting,
write experience paper, and meet regularly with WRT 430 instructor.
May be repeated once for credit. Prereq: WRT 105, 205, 331.
WRT 437/637 Information Architecture
and Technical Documentation (3 credits)
This course explores the relationship between technical writing
and information architecture, integrating theories of design with
technical composition techniques, and introducing formal structures
used to represent, organize, retrieve and apply information in technical
documents.
WRT 440 Studies
in the Politics of Language and Writing (3 credits; repeatable)
Study language and writing as sites of political contestation in local,
national, and global contexts. Explore policy initiatives, theoretical
debates, and effects of politics and history on language and writing
in communities.
WRT 447/647 Technical Writing for a
Global Audience (3 credits)
Examines complexities arising in writing technical documents for
a wide range of audiences, including other races and cultures both
domestically and internationally. Addresses ways that systems of knowledge,
interfaces, design processes, and instructional mechanisms affect
users.
WRT 470 Internship
(3 credits; repeatable)
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