Public Writing: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Community Engagement

Catalog description

As an undergraduate, community-based research course, students will work with civic and/or local organizations by using narrative research and writing to help advance the cause of voter education and civic engagement. Students, then, will design public writing projects that use applied knowledge of rhetorical theories, relevant disciplinary literacies, and narrative research methods including but not limited to: oral history, biographical studies, ethnography, autoethnography, and life history.