Rhetorical Ways with Words

Catalog description

Prerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent. This course focuses on the diverse purposes and uses of language and writing, encouraging students to consider these functions beyond solely academic and literary realms. Specifically, students will investigate how language and writing are connected to identity, power, community, and knowledge creation. To accomplish these broad goals, students will read critical scholarship from a variety of related disciplines. They may practice field-specific methods of inquiry and/or investigate local, regional, individual rhetorical and language practices and engage in print and/or multimodal composition. This course satisfies the English core requirement for the Language and Writing Studies area.