The Major Core
The four course core is required of all Writing and Rhetoric Majors.
WRT 255: Advanced Writing Studio: Advanced Argumentative Writing (3 credits)
Catalog Description: Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing.
3 credits :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors and Minors
Outcomes
Students will read and analyze texts on rhetorical theories and practices of effective argumentation.
Students will study arguments from a variety of genres and sources.
Students will analyze central aspects of arguments[KK1] , including authority, context, audience, visual design, and interfaces.
Students will engage in analytical research from interdisciplinary or public perspectives to develop effective arguments in a variety of genres and modalities.
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WRT 302: Advanced Writing Studio: Digital Writing (3 credits)
Catalog Description: 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 :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors
Outcomes
Students will acquire experience composing in multiple modes and genres associated with digital writing.
Students will develop rhetorical awareness of digital modes and genres, through relevant readings, analysis, and production.
Students will gain familiarity and experience with a range of software platforms for the production of digital materials.
Students will approach digital writing procedurally as well as expressively and rhetorically.
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WRT 307: Advanced Writing Studio: Professional Writing (3 credits)
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 :: Required of a Writing and Rhetoric Majors
Outcomes
Students will use rhetorical analysis and effective persuasion practices to produce user-centered documents in situated workplace genres for organizational ecologies.
Students will produce work that successfully incorporates accessible media objects into print and digital texts.
Students will produce a sustained, multiple-product group project that incorporates varied workplace genres (e.g., emails, proposals, status updates, reports, etc.) and technologies.
Students will produce instructional documents that incorporate audience assessment, a basic usability assessment and report, and multi-level document principles.
Students will learn to recognize and reflect upon the ethical dimensions of professional writing, including consideration of such issues as professional codes and inclusive language.
Students will compose with an awareness of diverse global and transnational cultures.
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