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  • 0502-461: Editing the Literary Magazine

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Supervision on all aspects of creating a literary and art magazine, with emphasis on writing and editing skills. Hands-on practicum focusing on production of the student-designed magazine, Signatures, RIT's oldest continuous literary publication. Part of the creative writing minor and may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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  • 0502-462: Advanced Science Writing

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Elaborating on principles and skills learned in science writing, in this class students will gain more intensive experience with research and revision. Students will learn to use multiple sources to bring a recent scientific development to several different kinds of audiences with varying expertise and with varying stakes in the issue. Students will learn to find, evaluate and analyze sources in several genres, and interpret their information for a different audience than originally intended. Students will undertake a coherent research project supported by specialized scientific knowledge and under-going several revision stages. Part of the science writing minor and may be taken as an elective. (0502-227 and 0502-460). Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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  • 0502-560: Special Topics

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    A focused, in depth study of a selected topic in writing. Specific topics vary according to faculty assigned. Part of the writing studies concentration and minor, the creative writing minor, and the science writing minor depending on the topic offered. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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  • 0504-210: Literary and Cultural Studies

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    This course will examine literary and cultural texts selected from traditional literature to contemporary media and culture (e.g. literature, film, graphic novels, television, advertising, anime). Students will analyze these texts from a variety of perspectives and become familiar with current debates about literature and/or culture as arenas of human experience. This course will fulfill a humanities core requirement. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
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  • 0504-319: Arts of Expression:Writing the Disciplines

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    The course emphasizes writing practices within or across disciplines, recognizing the role writing plays in the formation of knowledge and the framing of academic specializations. This course highlights the processes and practices of written expression and the production of research, whether in the sciences or the arts or the humanities. Faculty design specific approaches to the study of the writing of a discipline, field, or program. Students have the opportunity to develop a critical understanding of important conversations within a particular area of study, and within a larger culturally diverse context. Depending on the focus of the instructor, the course will engage one or more modes of disciplinary expression(s) such as films, written texts, photographs and other images, oral history, and ethnography. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
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  • 0504-325: Honors Literature

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Through literature, film, photographs, and other forms of cultural expression, we explore questions about democratic culture and the significance of American identity from within and beyond national borders. The focus for this version of the course is on the 1950's-that decade wedged between the end of WorldWar II and the beginning of the psychedelic 1960's. Students will investigate, for example, how Sputnik, McCarthyism, I Love Lucy, the Civil Rights movement, the Beatles, the atomic bomb, interstate highways, and Elvis converged in the formation of post-war American culture and society. Assignments include investigations of key words, literary analyses, time lines, oral history, and student presentations. Students will become modest experts on a literary text or cultural phenomena or critical event or new movement that surfaced during this decade. Invited speakers will offer their expertise about one aspect of this anything-but-dull decade. Students may take this course as honors literature: American Studies (0504-325), as a general education elective, American Studies (0523-400), or as a course in the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor. Fulfills one of the four honors core requirements in the RIT honors program. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered twice annually)
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  • 0504-327: Honors:Writing the Disciplines

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    This honors course emphasizes writing practices within or across disciplines, recognizing the role writing plays in the formation of knowledge and the framing of academic specializations. This course highlights the processes and practices of written expression and the production of research, whether in the sciences or the arts or the humanities. Students have the opportunity to develop a critical understanding of important conversations within a particular area of study. Depending on the focus of the instructor, the course will engage one or more modes of disciplinary expression(s) such as films, written texts, photographs and other images, oral history, and ethnography. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered quarterly)
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  • 0504-440: Drama and Theatre

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Drama as a genre and theater as a performing art. Intensive study of a least one major playwright or period complements a general survey of drama/theater from ancient Greece to modern Broadway. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and the theatre arts minor. It may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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  • 0504-441: The Art of Poetry

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    Emphasizes the enjoyment and study of poetry with primary attention to major poetry in English. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and the creative writing minor. It may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)
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  • 0504-442: The Short Story

    4.00 Credits
    Rochester Institute of Technology

    This course uses the genre of the contemporary short story to provide material for critical commentary and cultural understanding. Part of the literary and cultural studies concentration and minor and the creative writing minor. It may also be taken as an elective. (0502-227 or equivalent) Class 4, Credit 4 (offered occasionally)
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