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Course Criteria
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Courses in this category focus on the theories and practices of rhetoric and professional writing encompassed by this department. While the subject matter of special topics courses including such material as rhetorical theory, evolving technologies of writing, and digital literacies varies significantly, all courses provide an intensive focus on important historical and contemporary issues in the fields of rhetoric and professional writing, with an eye to exploring the practical implications of particular theoretical perspectives. Laboratory fee.
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3.00 Credits
Whether in corporations, nonprofit, government, or other workplace settings, employees spend much of their time writing reports, proposals, and/or grants. This intermediate-level course teaches the mechanics of writing in these genres and explores the social and political aspects of such writing. Students examine how to conduct research for these genres and tailor such writing for particular audiences by creating several informal and formal projects. Prerequisite: RPW 211W or RPW 215W, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Studies show that professional and technical writers collaborate 75 percent of their work time, and industry spends $3 billion annually to retrain employees to engage in collaborative composing processes. This course examines professional and technical writing as a collaborative, rather than an individual, process. Topics include theories of collaboration (horizontal and vertical), information development, document cycling, project management, and concepts of authorship. Students lead, as well as engage in, collaborative writing teams on such topics as employee assessment, procedural guidelines, product design, and project proposals. Prerequisite: RPW 211 or RPW 215; or permission of instructor. (Writing-intensive course) Laboratory fee.
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3.00 Credits
Focusing on issues such as reproductive rights, health care, and domestic violence, students examine the ways in which activist organizations that are focused on issues of gender and sexuality write about controversial issues for a range of audiences and in response to a variety of situations: guest speakers and working documents from actual reports, press releases, website content, and other written texts. Prerequisites: RPW 110, or GS 100, and junior or senior standing; or permission of instructor. (Writing-intensive course) Laboratory fee.
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3.00 Credits
Grammatical structures and application of grammar to prose writing, with emphasis on stylistic study, syntactic arrangement, and semantic meaning. Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
The aim of this course is to introduce key historical figures who made, and the current central scholars who are making, contributions to the study of rhetoric. We read primary texts selected from classical rhetoric, modern rhetoric, postmodern rhetoric, and alternative rhetoric(s). We define rhetoric in the traditional sense and study how this definition has changed to include contemporary problems of electronic texts and visual displays of information. Prerequisite: RPW 210W or RPW 215W, or permission of instructor. (Writing-intensive course) Laboratory fee.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on print and online editing, including the use of traditional proofreading marks and online techniques, document layout and design, principles of copywriting, and the study of style manuals. The course follows two lines of study: one of editing/text-crunching practices and one of print document design principles and practices related to the editing of documents. The cornerstone of the course is producing two client documents, edited according to client preferences. Prerequisite: RPW 210W or RPW 215W, or permission of instructor. (Laboratory fee)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to a variety of contemporary theoretical approaches to the study and teaching of reading and writing. Among the approaches covered are cognitive, hermeneutic, expressivist, social-cultural, and neo-Aristotelian. Students are asked not only to read and develop a mastery of the theoretical texts but also to find ways to translate these different theoretical perspectives into actual classroom practices. The goal is not to decide which perspective is "right" but rather to explore, philosophicallyand practically, what useful approaches to understanding and teaching reading and writing can be developed from each of the different orientations. Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A capstone course in which students work individually with faculty advisors to present a portfolio of work submitted, revised, and represented within the rhetoric and professional writing major. Students may elect to include material developed in off-campus writing experiences, including internships, as well as in course work. Each portfolio will be introduced by an essay in which students will situate their work within the theoretical perspectives learned in the program. Prerequisite: Senior standing in the professional and technical writing major.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Internships allow RPW majors and minors to supplement their classroom work with onthe- job experience in professional and technical writing. Typically, during one semester, interns work off campus several hours each week under the supervision of professionals in their fields. Prerequisites: RPW 215W, one 300- or 400- level RPW course, and junior or senior standing.
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