Courses offered in Writing & Rhetoric

Our department offers a variety of classes at the graduate and undergraduate level. 

At the undergraduate level, we offer courses in expository and research writing and specialty courses in business, academic, scientific and technical writing, and advanced non-fiction, as well as in writing in electronic environments, and in the teaching of writing. 

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At the graduate level we offer courses in Rhetoric and Composition Studies: an introduction and an advanced seminar in rhetoric, as well as a history of composition studies and a course on research methodologies.

Undergraduate Courses 

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WRT 104 Writing to Inform and Explain

WRT 105 Forms of College Writing

WRT 106 Introduction to Research Writing

WRT 201 Writing Argumentative and Persuasive Texts

WRT 227 Business Communication

WRT 235 Writing in Electronic Environments

WRT 270 Writing in the Expressivist Tradition

WRT 302 Writing Culture

WRT 303 Public Writing

WRT 304 Writing for Community Service

WRT 305 Travel Writing

WRT 306 Writing Health and Disability

WRT 333 Scientific and Technical Writing

WRT 353 Issues and Methods in Writing Consultancy

WRT 360 Composing Processes and Canons of Rhetoric

WRT 383 Field Experience in Writing Consultancy

WRT 391, 392 Independent Study in Writing & Rhetoric

WRT 435 (or EDC 435) The Teaching of Composition

WRT 484 Internship in Writing and Rhetoric

WRT 490: Writing and Rhetoric  

WRT 495: Capstone in Electronic Portfolios

Graduate Courses 

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WRT 512 Studies in Rhetorical Theory

WRT 524 Histories and Theories of Writing Instruction

WRT 645 Seminar in Rhetoric and Composition

WRT 647 Seminar in Research Methods

WRT 691 Independent Study in Rhetoric

WRT 999 Methods of Teaching College Writing