An introductory writing course that includes instruction in practical reasoning and the principles of rhetoric.

An introductory writing course that includes instruction in practical reasoning and the principles of rhetoric, as well as grammar and mechanics of standard American English.

Study and practice methods of rhetorical analysis within the contexts of disputed issues of academic, political, or cultural significance.

Examine the gospels as rhetorical texts, applying historical method and literary analysis to gain an understanding of how the image of Jesus Christ has been shaped from early Christianity to the present day.

Explore the ethical, political, philosophical, scientific, and artistic reasons humans have created representations of animals and the potential repercussions of these representations.

Explore the different structures and rhetorical poses authors have taken across five hundred years of the essay form's contemporary existence.

A writing course designed to teach advanced rhetorical analysis and advocacy on public issues.

An intensive writing workshop, focusing on style and readability.

A writing course focused on using, interpreting, and analyzing traditional and emerging technologies. Taught using networked computers.

Introduction to the fundamentals of computer programming and practice in computation as a rhetorical activity.

A writing course designed to teach students to analyze and produce visual and nonverbal forms of rhetoric.

Reading and writing in professional and technological environments.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Examine major terms, issues, and approaches in the discipline of rhetoric and writing. Practice analysis and application.

An advanced course designed to improve and refine writing.

Examine genres, processes, contexts, and practices of technical and professional communication.

Introduction to magazine writing, editing, and publishing, with an emphasis on the nonfiction article.

Studies the writing genres and rhetorical strategies that are routinely used in nonprofit organizations. Covers business reports, grant writing, and feature writing.

Studies the genres and rhetorical strategies that entrepreneurs use to persuade stakeholders, including heuristics for developing business models, market reports, and pitches.

Examine the concepts, practices, and technologies associated with composing in digital spaces.

Examine the nature of wicked problems and the roles for technical communicators, including effective strategies for engaging public audiences and facilitating stakeholder dialogue.

Examine nature, travel, and environment through writing that centers on social, environmental, and ecological justice.

This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad adviser in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.

Examine the role of information technologies in communication and culture.

An introduction to disability studies and accessible design by reading, discussing, designing, and practicing with the technologies and techniques that compose accessible writing and devices.

Examine the principles of user experience (UX) design, specifically the creation of low-fidelity mobile application solutions, which are designed to help users explore and create meaningful and personally relevant experiences within their environments.

Examine the fundamental principles of document and information design that inform practical and theoretical skills related to desktop publishing, visual communication, and publication production.

Explore the principles for designing tables, graphs, and figures that are accessible and persuasive to readers and that are accountable to the data. Examine and critique visualizations from academic and popular media. Create visualizations from real-world data sets.

Explore an introduction to text analytics with a focus on computational and statistical methods within rhetorical studies.

Explore the intersection of rhetoric, social justice, and environment through the theoretical lens of environmental justice.

Explore the nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI), its current and possible roles in society, and the rhetoric about it.

Explore storytelling's influence on public perceptions and policies via podcasting.

Examine how texts mediate human activity and how they can be used to manage time, effectiveness, and productivity at individual and group levels.

Explore the relationship between rhetoric, digital storytelling, documentary, and environment. Learn basic skills in documentary filmmaking and produce a short video suitable for broadcast.

Explores the function and interaction of texts in the workplace. Emphasis on research, analysis, and design of the strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of texts.

Introduction to user experience (UX) design. Apply concepts of UX and usability to design, research, and testing practices in digital interfaces.

Examination of issues in the history of photography and how images and words work in combination. Emphasis on improving skills in analysis, writing, and photography.

Exploration of contemporary ethical dilemmas and principles arising with emergent technologies, and their impact on rhetoric and writing.

Examines how writers present themselves and their arguments across a range of media and genres. Practices rhetorical skills within digital networks.

Examines and practices the development of narrative through multiple media (audio, visual, video, et al).

Introduces sound studies and practices techniques for recording, editing, and publishing writing for and with sound.

Examines the pervasiveness of digital culture and cultivates strategies for presenting one's digital self through academic, professional, and civic venues.

Geographically and historically situate and examine figures, movements, traditions, and productions in rhetoric and public argument.

Examines the role of sophists and sophistry in the development and practice of rhetoric as an art, from antiquity to modern times.

A survey of liberal political theory from the late seventeenth through the twentieth centuries with special attention to theories and practices of public argumentation.

An exploration of Marcus Tullius Cicero's writings on rhetoric, his major political speeches, and his philosophical dialogues in the context of the late Roman republic and the Roman Revolution (ca. 133-40 BCE).

Examine how popular rhetorical theories and pedagogies were adapted to fit specific social, cultural, and political contexts and thus shaped the communication practices of girls and women in 19th and early 20th century America. Consider why females were excluded from the rhetorical tradition and the challenges scholars face in writing historical accounts.

Study Augustine's writings on language, rhetoric, and epistemology with attention paid to contemporary Roman and Greek philosophical and rhetorical movements, such as skepticism, Platonic idealism, the second sophistic, and the Christian homiletic tradition.

Examine Latinx social movements and their rhetorical features in the Americas from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries.

Explore the intersection between feminism and rhetoric with emphasis on historical figures.

Examine rhetorics that (re)shape normative and transgressive conceptions of gender, emphasizing their effects on the lives of transgender people

Explore American conservative political tradition with special attention to the 1964 Barry Goldwater presidential campaign.

Examine how health and illness are defined through rhetorics about and within medicine. Focus on race and gender, consider how communication and language shape understandings of health, access to health care, and experiences of illness and disability.

Explore the rhetoric of liberation in the United States in the 1960s, looking in detail at the words and actions of activists in the Civil Rights movement, the anti-war/anti-imperialist movement, Black Power, women's liberation, gay liberation, the Chicano movement/el movimiento, and other noteworthy phenomena of the era.

Introduction to kairos, a key concept in rhetorical theory from ancient to modern times, that focuses attention on making a text appropriate for its historical situation. Explores why some writing succeeds at attracting attention and inspiring action, while some writing fails.

Studies the recurrent means of making arguments for and against war, and the role of rhetoric in public deliberation.

Explores theories of rhetoric by examining arguments about group identity, from Athenian discussions of "barbarism" in the fourth century BC to nineteenth-century arguments about citizenship.

A survey of the practice and theory of argumentation, with particular attention to its civic and political uses and implications.

Surveys the works of major rhetorical theorists and practitioners in the Western tradition from the ancient Greeks to the present.

Survey of figures, movements, and debates in the history of rhetoric and exploration of the rise of revisionist historiography and comparative rhetoric in the twenty-first century.

Study of the co-emergence and subsequent split between rhetoric and philosophy in the classical period and their potential reunification in a contemporary context.

Examination of how the art of rhetoric, developed in ancient times by the Greeks and Romans, was understood and debated during the European Renaissance, particularly in England.

Critically explore contemporary rhetorical theories and their analytical applications.

Examine the nature, features, exigences, and functions of peacemaking rhetoric.

Examine films as rhetorical acts that serve a powerful function in American society.

Examine features, exigences, and functions of different types of rhetorical narratives.

Explore the use of persuasive strategies in an ancient and non-Western culture, that of the Hebrew Bible. Using rhetorical techniques, analyze three types of texts: narratives of interactions between ordinary people and God; interactions between people, God, and authorized prophets; and prayers in prose and poetry.

Examine research on the diverse rhetorical practices of nonhuman animals and its implications for rhetorical theory.

Explore the rhetorical dimensions and tensions between feminism and science, focusing on feminist and scientific inquiry, interventions, and ethics.

Explore the role of communication in constructing disability and challenging ableism.

Examine how the concept of the "public sphere" informs discussions of the generation, negotiation, and control of information, power, and community values.

Examines material produced by rhetors commonly considered demagogues and assesses the scholarly discussions of these individuals.

Rhetorical analysis, with particular attention to the effects of technologies and journalistic institutions on public deliberation.

Use of contemporary critical methods to investigate, interpret, and explain rhetorical acts and artifacts.

Examination of rhetorical concepts and practices in various rhetorical traditions, and how they underline the functions of rhetoric in their different historical and cultural contexts.

Exploration of unconventional uses of language including contradiction, negation, story, surprise, gesture, and silence are used in Zen training as resources for transformational change.

Examines the persuasive power of emotion in critical thinking and prudent judgment.

Examine legal rhetoric and how gender, race, class, ability, and nationality constitute the law and subjects before the law.

An advanced course that examines theories of writing and writing pedagogy.

Research and staff experience working in an appropriate nonprofit, public-, or private-sector entity.

Supervised work on specific projects in rhetoric and writing.

Intensive reading, writing, and discussion in writing center theory and philosophy, tutoring methods, and writing pedagogy, as well as a review of standard American English usage and mechanics; followed by a supervised apprenticeship as a peer consultant in the University Writing Center.

Advanced instruction in revising and editing for publication.

Designed to make students better writers and more careful editors, the course includes creation of a simulated book from proposal stage to editing of final page proofs.

Examines the grammar of written English by assessing grammatical issues, handbooks, and controversies.

Allows the student to integrate the knowledge gained in rhetoric and writing through a major independent project.

An advanced course focused on specific theories or practices of rhetoric and writing.

Research and development of a thesis/project topic and proposal followed by the writing and defense of an honors thesis or development and defense of an honors project.

Explore specialized subject areas in rhetoric and writing studies in an individualized format.

Examine fundamental assumptions and procedures for conducting research in rhetoric and writing studies, including the links between theory and methods, qualitative, quantitative, archival, critical approaches, assessment, and research ethics.

Examine major theoretical movements in rhetorical studies, writing studies, and related areas.

Explore persuasive traditions, disciplinary histories, and historiographic considerations in rhetoric and writing studies.

Examine the theory, practice, and study of public rhetorics, including social movement rhetorics, community advocacy, and professional/technical communication.

Examine and apply the tools, techniques, and theories of digital research and pedagogy in an experiential format.

Prepare for required Field and Prospectus examinations under the supervision of a faculty member.

Prepare a report to fulfill the requirement for the master's degree under the report option.

Examine specialized topics in rhetoric and writing studies.