Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

College-level reading and writing practices: learning to compose for college audiences, to read challenging texts actively, to make interpretations and claims, and to collaborate with others. Does not substitute for WRT 105.

Study and practice of writing processes, including critical reading, collaboration, revision, editing, and the use of technologies. Focuses on the aims, strategies, and conventions of academic prose, especially analysis and argumentation.

Intensive version of WRT 105 for students of demonstrated exceptional ability.

Nonacademic writing; creative nonfiction, memoir, the essay. Students write texts experimenting with style, genre, and subject; read contemporary nonfiction texts by varied authors; attend lectures/readings of visiting writers.

Rhetorical study and practice of critical, research-based writing in response to environmental issues and their material and discursive contexts. Emphasizes audience and genre-awareness to produce persuasive, culturally situated interventions in environmental debates.

Examination of persuasive strategies of written arguments and genres intended to support and promote social action.

Rhetorical study and practice of satirical writing in response to sociopolitical issues and their discursive contexts. Emphasizes rhetorical strategies used to produce persuasive, culturally relevant, satirical texts across various genres.

Rhetorical study and practice of expressive writing as a personally beneficial activity, considering issues and applications in mental, physical, spiritual, and social health. Emphasizes writing processes with attention to genre, writing space, writing practices.

Special instruction in writing, graded on pass/ fail basis. Does not substitute for WRT 105 or 205. Permission of instructor.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Study and practice of critical, research-based writing, including research methods, presentation genres, source evaluation, audience analysis, and library/online research. Students complete at least one sustained research project.

Introduction to workplace writing genres. Emphasis placed on understanding audience needs during the planning and revision process, as well as editing for clarity and impact. Provides students with useful tools for enhancing all workplace communications. This course is available only online.

Intensive version of WRT 205 for students of demonstrated exceptional ability.

Special instruction in writing, graded on a pass/fail basis. Does not substitute for WRT 105 or 205. Permission of instructor.

Practice in responsive writing in relation to topics around health, wellness, and illness. Emphasizes rhetorical analysis and writing as a response to existing conversations, allowing students to contribute to cultural understandings and debates surrounding health/wellness/illness.

Intensive practice in the analysis and writing of advanced arguments for a variety of settings: public writing, professional writing, and organizational writing.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Practical skills necessary for effective civic or advocacy writing. Examines the nature of public(s) and applies theoretical understandings to practical communication scenarios. Junior standing.

Writing in digital environments. May include document and web design, multimedia, digital video, web logs. Introduction to a range of issues, theories, and software applications relevant to such writing.

Sustained research and writing project in a student's field of study or area of interest. Analysis of the rhetorics and methodologies of research.

Rhetorical study and writing with and about texts that engage with indigenous thinking, knowledge systems, and philosophies in response to colonial processes. Emphasizes the inclusion and influence of indigenous cultures and intellectualism in research, dis-course, and writing.

Professional communication through the study of audience, purpose, and ethics. Rhetorical problem-solving principles applied to diverse professional writing tasks and situations.

Study and experiment with contemporary writing styles, designs, and editing conventions. Practice writing in multiple genres for different audiences, purposes, and effects. Explore rhetorical, aesthetic, social, and political dimensions of style.

This course partners with SU Art Museum's PAL Project to bring University students into local public schools and community centers to offer training in visual rhetoric and multimodal composition, including photography and writing, and to work with youth to develop projects that explore issues of identity, culture, and community.

Special instruction in writing, graded on a pass/fail basis. Does not substitute for WRT 105 or 205.

Introduction to theories and methods of writing consultation. Topics include: social dynamics, grammar, ESL, LD, argumentation, critical reading, writing process. Practices: observations, role playing, peer groups, one-on-one. Writing intensive.

Students will produce INTERTEXT, an anthology of student writing in the Writing Program. This extensive editorial project will include: processing manuscripts, production of the anthology, marketing, and public relations tasks. Permission of instructor.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.

Advanced technical communications for pre-professional computer and electrical engineers. Focuses on the communication that engineering design teams perform. Emphasis on communication embedded in system analysis and design processes.

Advanced technical communications for pre-professional computer and electrical engineers. Focuses on a range of communication activities embedded in the development, testing, and deployment phases of engineering projects.

Focuses on writing that describes and responds to climate change and its broad effects. Students explore texts from diverse cultures and perspectives and also create texts in a variety of genres that are intended to bring about new, understandings of our pasts, presents and possible futures.

Introduces historical conversations concerning rhetoric's ethical responsibilities and explores complications that emerge as assumed historic connections between language and truth, justice, community, and personal character are deployed in various social, political, cultural, national, and transnational contexts.

Builds on technical writing fundamentals, focusing on practical techniques and extensive practice designing and writing technical product/process documents. Includes audience assessment, task analyses, use-case scenarios, usability testing, and end-use documentation. Additional work required of graduate students.

Intensive experience in writing technical texts. Additional work required of graduate students.

Particular topics in the analysis and practice of creative nonfiction. Attention to cultural contexts and authorship. Possible genres include memoir, travel writing, nature writing, experimental or hybrid writing, and the personal essay.

Examines the debates, strategies, styles, and forms of persuasive practices employed by African Americans with each other, and in dialogue within the United States.

Particular topics in the relations among identity, culture, and power in writing and rhetoric. How writing identities emerge in relation to cultural constructions of race, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, aging, disability.

Applies rhetorical principles to the study of writing for social media. Areas of inquiry include rhetorical implications of identity construction, design, and analysis of (social) media platforms. Students prepare and develop an electronic portfolio.

Particular topics in the study of technology-mediated communication, emphasizing digital discourses and culture. Includes practice and analysis of new genres and rhetorics with attention to their social and political meaning, contexts, and use.

An advanced technical writing course focusing on project management and writing that development teams perform regularly, with emphasis on digital writing, site architecture, and assessment/implementation of emerging technologies. Additional work required of graduate students.

Particular topics in the theories and studies of writing, including style, community literacy, authorship, and rhetorical genres. Places writing in historical and cultural contexts.

Continuation of consultant experience of WRT 331. Work independently consulting in their majors or the Writing Program.

Historicizes conversations in queer theory related to the study of writing and discourse and considers how queer rhetorics might shape technical communication practices. Introduces key methodological orientations to queer usability across textual, social, political, and transnational boundaries.

Introduces key methodological orientations to disability rhetoric through various genres. Analyzes conceptions of the body in relation to ability/disability, race, gender, citizenship, and class.

Explores food writing and rhetorics in local, national, and global contexts. Explores histories, policies, debates, and trends in discourses about food and their presentation to varied audiences.

Feminist rhetoric from both a historical and global context, utilizing both primary and secondary readings in order to gain a sense of breadth and depth in the field of feminist rhetoric. Additional work required of graduate students.

Focuses on visual presentation of scientific and technical information, with emphasis on rhetorical approaches, design technologies, and digital presentation of finished work. Additional work required of graduate students.

Advanced theory and practice of writing interdisciplinary nonfiction in historical, political, cultural, and ethical contexts. Produces creative nonfiction as modes of intellectual inquiry and as scholarship within academic disciplines. Additional work required of graduate students.

Language and writing as sites of political contestation in local, national, and global contexts. Explores policy initiatives, theoretical debates, and effects of politics and history on language and writing in communities.

Explores how graphic medicine¿particularly comics, graphic autobiography, and memoir¿can help us better understand experiences of illness.

Complexities arising in writing technical documents for a wide range of audiences, including other cultures and workplaces both domestically and internationally. Addresses ways that systems of knowledge, interfaces, design processes, and instructional mechanisms affect users.

Participation in a discipline or subject related experience. Student must be evaluated by written or oral reports or an examination. Permission in advance with the consent of the department chairperson, instructor, and dean. Limited to those in good academic standing.

Offered through SUAbroad by educational institution outside the United States. Student registers for the course at the foreign institution and is graded according to that institution's practice. SUAbroad works with the S.U. academic department to assign the appropriate course level, title, and grade for the student's transcript.

Exploration of a problem, or problems, in depth. Individual independent study upon a plan submitted by the student. Admission by consent of supervising instructor(s) and the department.

Workshop provides students with collaborative environment to develop a proposal for a major project over an extended period. Typical activities: discussing project foci, drafting and workshopping. project proposals, conducting research, discussing audience considerations, making periodic presentations. Department consent.

Workshop provides students with collaborative environment to develop a major project over an extended period. Typical activities: discussing project foci, drafting and workshopping project proposals, conducting research, discussing audience considerations, making periodic presentations.

Completion of an Honors Capstone Project under the supervision of a faculty member.

Exploration of a topic (to be determined) not covered by the standard curriculum but of interest to faculty and students in a particular semester.