An overview of scholarly issues and research and design methods in Rhetoric and Writing Studies. The focus in on developing research problems and questions, designing studies, and conducting, reading and evaluating research.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

A comprehensive introduction to the discipline and sub-fields of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, and to relevant, historical, and theoretical methodologies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

A writing course stressing the application of classical and contemporary rhetorical theory to a variety of practical writing tasks involving argument and persuasion.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Focuses on rhetorical techniques for producing technical writing, graphics, and editing using print and electronic media. The emphasis is on managing large- and small-scale projects, adapting to various audiences, and using social networking.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Principles and practical applications on writing grant proposals: analyzing requests for proposals, anticipating the needs of reviewers as audience, conforming to applications guidelines, preparing executive summaries, project descriptions, outcome measures, and budget. Course work will include preparation, under close faculty supervision, of a substantial grant proposals.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

A variable topics course focusing on the application of multimodal composing processes to a variety of contexts in Rhetoric and Writing Studies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

A rhetorical approach to producing professional documents through print and electronic media. Focus in on participating effectively in intra-organizational social networking, planning collaborative group projects, and designing effective presentations. May be repeated when topic varies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Practice in a workshop setting of planning, drafting, revising, and editing responses to graduate-level academic assignments typical of a variety of disciplines including seminar papers, research proposals, research reports, theses, and dissertations. Credit to be determined by the student's major program. May not be used to fulfill requirements for any graduate degree in the English Department. May be repeated.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

An examination of practical applications of conventions for writing, copy making, copy editing, comprehensive editing, and web editing. Addresses rhetorical elements such as audience, purpose, authorship, ideology, and design of web-based and print documents from a variety of courses, e.g., discipline-based, private industry, public sector, and the academy.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Supervised internship in a community literacy setting. Consent of the instructor required. May be repeated for credit.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

An exploration of the major schools of rhetorical theory including that of Ancient Greece and Rome, the 18th century, and the modern theorists.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Focuses on key issues and scholarship in writing program administration (WPA). Institutional structures, leadership styles, and problem solving will be examined.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Seminar on topics in Rhetoric and Writing Studies such as borderlands rhetoric, transformational pedagogies, or material rhetorics. May be repeated when topic varies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

An introductory course in composition theory and pedagogy that informs the teaching of first-year composition. Restricted to TAs and AIs in the First-Year Composition program.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

The primary goal of Bilingual Workplace Writing is to develop students' effective communication, both in English and Spanish, in professional contexts. This effective communication is based on an awareness of and appreciation for discourse communities as well as knowledge specific to subject matter, genre, rhetorical strategy, and writing process.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

The primary goal of RWS 5359 is to develop students' effective and ethical communication in technical and professional contexts and, as a bilingual course, will help students understand the confluence of rhetorical and translation theory. This effective communication is based on an awareness of and appreciation for discourse communities as well as knowledge specific to subject matter, genre, rhetorical strategy, and writing process. Students produce professional texts in English and Spanish.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

For the Bilingual Professional Writing Practicum, graduate students are expected to initiate a project, pace themselves and complete a quality professional writing portfolio consisting of written and/or digital texts created, revised, edited, and/or translated for a community organization/ nonprofit, negotiated with an agency mentor, and approved by the course instructor. Students enrolled in the Bilingual Professional Writing Certificate Program are required to take this course as their final class in order to receive the certificate. RWS 5380 students will produce English and Spanish texts.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

A critical examination of postmodern/globalization theory and practices from multi-disciplinary perspectives to learn how they might complicate current issues in RWS; an exploration of what this means for discursive and non-discursive rhetorical relations.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

An exploration of rhetoric, globalization, and transnationalism from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Critical Literacy Studies, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Connections between language, place, and power will be highlighted. Particular emphasis will be placed on the U.S.-Mexico border context.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Independent directed studies on an approved topic, to be taught with the consent of the professor.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

Enrollment required in the three hour Rhetoric and Writing Practicum. Department approval required.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of DR

The student submits a thesis proposal, names a thesis director, second reader, and outside reader to the director of graduate studies for approval, and then follows the Graduate school guidelines or preparing and submitting a thesis. Prerequisite: Departmental approval.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

The student submits a thesis proposal, names a thesis director, second reader, and outside reader to the director of graduate studies for approval, and then follows the Graduate school guidelines or preparing and submitting a thesis. Prerequisite: Department approval.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Prerequisite(s): (RWS 5398 w/P or better)

Graduate seminar in Rhetoric: Presentation and discussion of topics and composition by graduate students, faculty, and visitors.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

1 Credit Hour
1 Total Contact Hour
0 Lab Hours
1 Lecture Hour
0 Other Hours

A writing course stressing the application of classical and contemporary rhetorical theory to a variety of practical writing tasks involving argument and persuasion.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

A comprehensive introduction to the discipline and sub-fields of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, and to relevant, historical, and theoretical methodologies. Coursework will include the development of a research project under close faculty supervision.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

A detailed examination of the development of Western and non-Western rhetoric up to 1700 C.E.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

A detailed examination of the development of Western and non-Western rhetorical traditions from 1700 to present.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Focuses on rhetorical techniques for producing technical writing, graphics, and editing using print and electronic media. The emphasis is on managing large- and small-scale projects, adapting to various audiences, and using social networking.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Principles and practical applications of writing grant proposals: analyzing requests of proposals, anticipating the needs of reviewers as audience, conforming to application guidelines, preparing executive summaries, project descriptions, outcome measures, and budgets. Course work will include preparation, under close faculty supervision, of a substantial grant proposal.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

A variable topics course focusing on the application of multimodal composing processes to a variety of contexts in Rhetoric and Writing studies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

A rhetorical approach to producing professional documents through print and electronic media. Focus is on participating effectively in intra-organizational social networking, planning collaborative group projects, and designing effective presentations. May be repeated when topic varies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Practice in a workshop setting, of planning, drafting, revising, and editing responses to graduate-level academic assignments typical of a variety of disciplines, including seminar papers, research proposals, research reports, theses, and dissertations. Credit to be determined by the student's major program. May not be used to fulfill requirements for any graduate degree in the English Department. May be repeated.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An examination of practical applications of conventions for writing, copy marking, copy editing, comprehensive editing, and web editing. Address rhetorical elements such as audience, purpose, authorship, ideology, and design of web-based and print documents from a variety of courses, e.g., discipline-based, private industry, public sector, and the academy.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Supervised internship in a community literacy setting. Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An investigation of research and theories in composition studies from the 1960's to the present, with emphasis on critical literacy and writing in cultural contexts.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An intensive study of major authors and debates in contemporary critical theory, with emphasis on critical race theory and global language studies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An investigation of computer-mediated communication in education, industry, government, and business.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An exploration of the major schools of rhetorical theory including that of Ancient Greece and Rome, the 18th century, and the modern theorists.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An overview of scholarly issues and research and design methods in Rhetoric and Writing Studies. The focus in on developing research problems and questions, designing studies, and conducting, reading and evaluating research.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Seminar on topics in rhetoric and composition such as borderlands rhetoric, transformational pedagogy, or material rhetoric. May be repeated when topic varies.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An introductory course in composition theory and pedagogy that informs the teaching of first-year composition. Restricted to TAs and AIs in the First-Year Composition program. Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

An exploration of rhetoric, globalization, and transnationalism from a variety of Interdisciplinary perspectives, including Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Critical Literacy Studies, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Connections between language, place, and power will be highlighted. Particular emphasis will be placed on the U.S.-Mexico border context.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
3 Lecture Hours
0 Other Hours

Preparation and defense of a satisfactory dissertation proposal. May be taken only once for credit toward the degree, but students must register for this course during each semester in which they are working on their dissertation proposal. Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Initial work on the dissertation. Prerequisite: Departmental approval required.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Continuous enrollment required while work on the dissertation continues. Prerequisites: RWS 6398 with a grade of "B" or better and departmental approval required.

Department: Rhetoric and Writing Studies

3 Credit Hours
3 Total Contact Hours
0 Lab Hours
0 Lecture Hours
3 Other Hours

Prerequisite(s): (RWS 6398 w/P or better)