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2022-2023 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition |
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WTNG 210 - Critical Writing for the Sciences
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102 .
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program
A research-based course, Critical Writing for the Sciences focuses on the production of reports expected of science professionals, namely, a research (lab) report in the IMRD format, a review of literature paper based upon a current argument, and an article for a popular journal. Students learn how to assess an experiment, negotiate professional sources, defend an argument, create an annotated bibliography and an oral presentation, and write for various audiences.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 220 - Critical Writing for the Professions
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
A research-based course, Critical Writing for the Professions focuses on the guidelines for persuasive writing commonly used in business and industry: how to write for specific audiences, choose the appropriate style, design effective document formats, and use visuals to help achieve a documents purpose. The course emphasizes the composition of such professional documents as letters, proposals, and analytical reports.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 225 - Writing in Professional and Public Contexts
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
Delivery: Lecture
This problem-based course deepens students’ understanding of how writing works as a tool for thought and as a vehicle for communication. Moving from academic inquiry to writing in professional and public situations, students will investigate a complex, open-ended problem by researching and synthesizing a variety of sources, voices, and perspectives. Throughout their inquiry process, students will develop additional questions, propose solutions, communicate information, and produce documents aimed at informing and persuading a range of audiences. This course offers students opportunities to think like writers as they address problems that matter in academic, professional, and public contexts.
3 credits
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WTNG 230 - Rhetoric of Film: Writing about Film
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
In this course, students write about film as a rhetorical art. By analyzing the relationships among purpose, audience, genre, and social context, students learn that film technique functions as rhetorical strategy. Students deepen both their rhetorical and writing process knowledge when adapting to different audiences and producing texts typical to writing about film, such as the screening report, movie review, and critical essay.
3 credits
Fall
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WTNG 235 - Technical Writing
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
Students will learn how to apply fundamental concepts of effective technical writing that will prepare them for writing in industry, government and other professional contexts. Technical documents help move industry, government and the professions. The technical writer must make judgments about his or her audience, subject, and purposes that go far beyond transferring information. Students will study key principles of rhetorical theory, the idea of genre and its purposes, and the concept of professional audience. Technical documents may include feasibility studies, proposals, and policy statements.
3 credits
Spring
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WTNG 240 - Writing for Business Organizations
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
This course explores the causes of the success or failure of business communications. The course takes a case-based approach. Students will study the theory and practice of business communications as a pragmatic enterprise to accomplish actual change in the world. The course includes the study of the nature of domestic and global business communication, the causes and effects of communication failures, the social, legal, and ethical nature of professional communication, and the problems in determining the professional interests of readers.
3 credits
Spring
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WTNG 245 - Writing about Health
Prerequisites: Prerequisite: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
Delivery: Lecture
In this course, students will further develop their rhetorical knowledge by studying and producing texts about health, nutrition, illness, and the body. Students will track how writers make informed decisions in order to present clear, user-friendly information to public and professional audiences. Students will also practice writing in a range of genres and adapting their writing for diverse rhetorical situations connected to healthcare. The course foregrounds the ethical implications of writing about bodies. A background in the health sciences is not required.
3 credits
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WTNG 250 - Advanced Composition
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This course provides writers with advanced practice in drafting, revising, and editing non-fiction prose, with particular emphasis placed on questions of voice and style. Students will experiment with invention strategies and editing techniques as they plan, draft, and revise essays for a variety of purposes and audiences. In addition, they will read and respond to their own and their classmates’ writing in order to propose ideas for revision and editing.
3 credits
Spring
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WTNG 299 - Special Topics in Writing
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
Special topics are initiated by student demand, interest of the instructor, or timeliness of offering. Readings and written assignments are appropriate to the Special Topic designation. This course may be repeated for credit, but students may study a single topic only once.
3 credits
Special Offering
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WTNG 300 - Rhetoric in a Global Context
Prerequisites: Successful Completion of a 200-level WTNG course.
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
In this variable topics course, students will analyze, evaluate, and synthesize how public arguments are framed globally. Topics may include the rhetorics of decolonization, antiracism, gender and sexuality, sustainability, and public health, among others relevant to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion on a global scale. Applying classical and contemporary rhetorical theories to ongoing conversations about the topic, students will produce texts that consider audiences beyond the academy. The course emphasizes inquiry-based research, engagement with multiple sources, and deep reflection about rhetorical choices. This is a variable topics course. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Fall
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WTNG 301 - The Rhetoric of Narrative
Prerequisites: Successful Completion of a 200-level WTNG course.
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
This course explores storytelling as a rhetorical act that functions to persuade others, build knowledge, fashion identities, and create audiences. Students learn to use rhetorical concepts like ethos and identification to interpret a variety of narratives - such as fables, fairy tales, and parables; white papers, constitutions, and other claims to political autonomy; testimony taken from war crimes trials, tribunals, and truth commissions; literacy narratives; and their own family stories. Throughout this course of study, students have opportunities to critically reflect upon and write about narratives that have shaped their own identities and/or moved them to action.
3 credits
Spring
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WTNG 303 - Environmental Rhetoric
Prerequisites: Successful Completion of a 200-level WTNG course.
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
This course will examine important writers and thinkers from Henry David Thoreau to William McKibben for ways in which arguments about human/nature relationships have evolved. The tensions in these relationships, this course argues, have forged environmentalism into a counter-hegemonic discourse that challenges fundamental assumptions about the centrality of man, the role and value of “progress,” and the utility of nature.
3 credits
Fall
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WTNG 304 - Feminist Rhetorics
Prerequisites: Successful Completion of a 200-level WTNG course
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
Delivery: Lecture
Feminist. A polarizing word, people understand it in very different ways. In this course we will analyze various definitions of feminism by exploring how scholars of feminist rhetorics have recovered the transgressive ways women use their writing, speaking, and silence to intervene in the world. We will focus on the methods and methodologies by which these scholars examine feminist rhetorics. As we investigate the ways feminists (of all genders) have used their writing, speaking, and silence to speak back to power and to challenge implicit rules about who gets to speak (or write) in a given situation, we will consider how these feminist rhetorical theories and practices might inform our own discursive interventions in the world.
3 credits
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WTNG 321 - Multimodal Writing in Public Spheres
Prerequisites: Successful Completion of a 200-level WTNG course.
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
This course explores the theory and practice of writing that serves public interests. As writing in public spheres is produced across a variety of media - from blogs to tweets to visual images to print-based texts - students will produce and analyze multimodal compositions meant to accomplish a specific outcome for a particular audience. Students will explore the theoretical, rhetorical, and ethical considerations of writing in public spheres, and produce a variety of multimodal genres. Note: previous experience with digital or multimodal composing not required.
3 credits
Fall
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WTNG 322 - Advancing Public Argument
Prerequisites: Successful Completion of a 200-level WTNG course.
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
Equality. Knowledge. Happiness. Freedom. The public sphere is where the meaning and implications of these words are constantly defined, contested and renegotiated. Beginning with readings that offer definitions of rhetoric role in the public sphere itself, students read a wide range of historical and contemporary public discourses that have sought to advance persuasive arguments to the American citizenry. By analyzing a variety of public genres (letters, photographs, speeches, film, statistics, art installations) with attention to the ways authors deploy the rhetorical appeals of ethos, logos, and pathos, students gain fluency as critically engaged citizens, able to participate in the reading, writing, and resisting of on-going public arguments. Writing projects privilege student interest but emphasize the development of visual, cultural, and quantitative rhetoric’s.
3 credits
Spring
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WTNG 340 - Advanced Topics in Workplace Writing
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102 and a 200-level WTNG course
Requirement Fulfillment: Minor, Core Concentration
In this variable topics course, students will examine how writing plays a central role in the workplace. Students will draw from case studies in order to learn how to transfer advanced rhetorical concepts to future contexts, especially at the workplace. This inquiry will support students as they practice planning, writing, and revising high-quality documents. The course focuses on writing ethically, document design, collaborative writing, persuasion, writing with data, language diversity, and/or related areas in print and digital texts. Course topics may include professional editing, professional writing in a global context, corporate language and writing, and writing related to different fields. The course but not the topic may be repeated for credit. The course but not the topic may be repeated for credit
3 credits
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WTNG 400 - Writing for Social Change
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 200 or 300 Level WTNG course (C- or higher) and at least Junior Standing
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
After forming a partnership with a local, non-profit social service agency, participants in this course will determine which of the agency’s goals can be met by collaborating on research and writing projects. The writing projects will vary, depending on the objectives of the agency and the needs of the people it serves. The purpose of the texts produced will range from raising public awareness of agency-specific problems and issues to securing resources for the organization. On-going reading and class discussions will center on the potency of texts, the role of the writer in bringing about social change, and the value of civic engagement.
3 credits
Spring Alternate Years
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WTNG 405 - Writing Grants and Proposals
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 200- or 300- level WTNG course and at least junior standing.
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills a requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Minor and Core Concentration.
Delivery: Lecture
This course gives students an introduction to grants and proposals from a rhetorical perspective. Non-profit, corporate, and government organizations offer many opportunities to fund projects; and clear, persuasive writing is a key part of securing this funding. Students will learn about the grant application process-from researching opportunities to submitting final drafts-and the basics of writing strong proposals. Throughout the course, students will study genre conventions such as the letter of transmittal, abstract, problem statement, timeline, and budget. Ultimately, the course aims to help students understand how to make thoughtful rhetorical decisions in order to produce effective, persuasive arguments about their projects and research plans.
3 credits
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WTNG 410 - Writing Independent Study
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WTNG 430 - Special Topics
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 200 or 300 Level WTNG course (C- or higher) and at least Junior Standing
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This course offers an in-depth study of an aspect of writing theory or practice. The specific focus varies from semester to semester and may include such topics as composition pedagogy; advanced argument; rhetorical analysis of modern culture; civil discourse; community-based writing; and argument in advanced writing for the sciences or for the professions. As topics vary, the course may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 439 - Rhetorical Theory
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 200 or 300 Level WTNG course (C- or higher) and at least Junior Standing
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration
This course traces the rhetorical tradition from the pre-modern period to the present, surveying representational, epistemic, performative, and constitutive theories of language while highlighting ways that verbal rhetorical theory may be used to interpret and craft rhetorical performances. Students explore a variety of theoretical concepts-such as the five canons of rhetoric, the stases, copia, kairos, sprezzatura, deduction and induction, dissociation, the Burkian pentad, ideographs, and interpellation-and learn to employ these concepts as tools for understanding how texts function persuasively and for composing persuasive texts of their own. Course readings are organized around a common theme, and, at the end of the semester, students work collaboratively to develop a colloquium on the course theme.
3 credits
Alternate Fall
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WTNG 450 - Composition Theory
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 200 or 300 Level WTNG course (C- or higher) and at least Junior Standing
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration
This course familiarizes writing students with the history of Composition as an academic discipline, conveys the major theoretical approaches that have helped to shape the field, and examines connections between composition theory and practice. Likely topics include criticisms of current-traditionalist approached, tensions between expressivist and social constructionist theories, and the emergence of critical pedagogies influenced by postmodernists, cultural studies, and feminist theorists.
3 credits
Spring Alternate Years
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WTNG 460 - Writing Studies Internship
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a 200 or 300 Level WTNG course (C- or higher) and at least Junior Standing
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration
This internship will grant academic credit to students who work on a part-time basis with the Writing Studies Department on specially prepared projects. Projects may include professional, disciplinary, or technical writing situations; advanced or capstone projects, courses, or work experiences; or a deeper understanding of college-level composition and the research required for the field. Students must have completed at least 3 of the 5 writing courses required for a Writing Studies Core Concentration and have maintained a 3.0 GPA in those courses.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 470 - The Writing Thesis/Portfolio
Prerequisites: Successful completion of two Writing courses at the 300-level or above. Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102 . At least junior standing or consent of instructor
Requirement Fulfillment: Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This course offers students the opportunity to concentrate on one of two genres - the thesis or the portfolio. If students choose the thesis option, they will select a topic of inquiry related to theory, history, pedagogy, or practice of rhetoric and/or composition. The portfolio option entails assembling, analyzing, and evaluating a body of original work that demonstrates the students’ ability to apply their knowledge of writing to a variety of professional, academic, and public contexts.
3 credits
Special Offering
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Web Development |
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WEB 200 - Introduction to Computer Animation and Games
Delivery: Lec/Lab
Because of the pervasive digital nature of nearly everything in our technology and media environment, computing has become a fundamental literacy. Narrative, visual design and music are essential skills in making an animation or game experience come alive. In this course, students experience developing their own animated stories or games and, in the process acquire the basics of programming, accessibilty, algorithmic and critical thinking, and develop strategies for problem solving with or without computers. The experiential visual environment makes the course engaging and accessible to just about anyone in any major.
3 credits
Spring
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WEB 206 - Introduction to Web Development
Prerequisites: None
This course offers a practical hands-on approach to designing, creating and uploading sites for the Web. Using applications such as Macromedia Dreamweaver and Macromedia Fireworks, students in this course construct a multi-page Web site complete with links to other sites, photographs they have scanned and enhanced, and graphics and animations they have created. Students learn how images, audio and video are represented digitally and transmitted on the Web, and how to optimize information to provide visitors with quick response and high quality. Offered in an interactive hands-on computer classroom.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WEB 299 - Web Development Center I
Prerequisites: None
Students enrolling in this course must be able to create and implement web pages using CSS, but students from other majors are encouraged to enroll. Students form multidisciplinary teams to design and develop a web presence for an actual client. Teams compete for the client’s business just as a real-world web design and development firm must do. Team members bring their own expertise to bear in seamlessly integrating the web site within a Content Management System. This project requires the application of your existing skill set and the acquisition of new skills. Employers are increasingly looking for graduates with real-world experience working in multi-disciplinary teams. The Web Development Center provides that experience. The team project becomes part of each student’s professional portfolio.
3 credits
Spring
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WEB 306 - Web 2.0: Creating Expressive Web Sites
Prerequisites: WEB 206
This course covers how to bring a web site to life with animations, transforms and transitions. Add audio, video, media queries, gradients, Web fonts and shadows. Creative implementations with HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and JavaScript are covered.
3 credits
Fall
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WEB 325 - Web Client: JavaScript
Prerequisites: WEB 206
Modern web sites are a blend of technologies. Hypertext Markup Language and Cascading Style Sheets define the appearance of web pages. Active Server Pages (ASP) or similar systems such as php, jsp or cfm are used to provide access to databases stored on web servers. JavaScript is the dominant language for controlling web page behavior on the client side of the system. JavaScript provides a way to validate form data, handle rollover effects, rotate advertisement content, generate dynamic menus and a host of other effects users have come to expect. By the end of this course you will be comfortable writing JavaScript, reading JavaScript code written by others and using widely available JavaScript libraries and APIs (such as the Google Maps API) as part of your web development efforts.
3 credits
Fall
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WEB 335 - Database Management
Prerequisites: at least Sophomore standing.
This hands-on course introduces students to the world of relational databases in the context of web development by taking students on a step-by-step journey through the process of database design and implementation. In this course you will learn about data organization strategies, entities and attributes, tables and relationships, primary and foreign keys, normalization, integrity constraints, and hardware characteristics and constraints. The database implementation uses a mainstream database such as MySQL, that runs on Macintosh, Windows, or Unix systems. Relations to web languages such as PHP, JASON, or PERL are also considered. Theory is immediately put into practice as you apply each new concept and technique to your own database and web projects. Offered in an interactive hands-on computer classroom.
3 credits
Fall
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WEB 350 - Designing the User Experience
Cross-Listed with: DSGN 350 Designing the User Experience
Prerequisites: WEB 206 or Consent of Instructor
Requirement Fulfillment: Fullfills a 300 level requirement in the Web Development Major and Minor.
Delivery: Studio
User experience design aims to create products that people love to use. The focus in this course is in designing and implementing user tests and documenting the results. It introduces students to techniques and practices for incorporating feedback from user research and interviews into the design of interactive digital products using an iterative process that incorporates high- and low-fidelity prototypes. Students communicate design ideas through presentation, documentation and prototyping as appropriate.
3 credits
Fall
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WEB 399 - Web Development Center II
Prerequisites: WEB 299 - Web Development Center I
Web Development Center II continues the experience of Web Development Center I (WEB 299 ). In the second semester students take on a management and mentoring role in the project, possibly as a team leader. Mentor/managers play a larger role in formulating project strategy and in the interface between your team and the client. They also take charge of site promotion including search engine optimization (SEO) strategy and the design and implementation of effective landing pages. The team project will become part of each student’s professional portfolio.
3 credits
Spring
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WEB 425 - Webserver: Scripting and Database Connectivity
Prerequisites: WEB 200 and WEB 206 or permission of instructor
Would you use Facebook if everyone could see all your information? How do Netflix and Amazon decide what other titles you might be interested in? Twitter can send a text message to your phone. How does that work? All these features are created using server-side techniques. In this practical hands-on course you’ll use tools such as Dreamweaver, Blend, Expression Web and Visual Studio, MySQL and SQL Server to create Web sites that incorporate features like these.
3 credits
Spring
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WEB 429 - Community Partnerships Center Web Development Studies
Prerequisites: None
This course involves a project selected by the Community Partnerships Center and the Business School Dean as a Web Development project. The students will work with a professor and possibly students from other disciplines to fulfill a task requested by a regional company, organization, or governmental unit. Specific project details vary and will be announced prior to preregistration for each semester.
3 credits
Special Offering
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WEB 430 - Special Topics in Web Development
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Selected topics provide study in areas chosen by students in consultation with faculty. Provides an advanced level of course work or research in web development.
3 credits
Special Offering
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WEB 469 - Web Development Coop
Prerequisites: Senior standing in Web Development and consent of instructor
This course is designed to prepare students for the transition from academia to the real world, and to allow them to “sample the water” of their chosen profession. Prior to starting their internship, students are guided through the experience of preparing a resume, conducting a job search for an appropriate position, and applying for a position. Students select from a wide variety of positions offered at local businesses, web development firms, consulting firms, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. During the semester students perform meaningful tasks, usually without financial remuneration for their company, either individually or a part of a team. Students receive feedback and guidance from their employers, their RWU Career Services advisor, and their faculty sponsor.
3 credits
Fall, Spring & Summer
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