ENGL 2010: Intermediate Academic Writing
Emphasizes academic inquiry and research in the humanities and social sciences. Explores issues from multiple perspectives. Teaches careful reasoning, argumentation, and rhetorical awareness of purpose, audience, and genre. Focuses on critically evaluating, effectively integrating, and properly documenting sources.
ENGL 2310: Technical Communication
For those interested in improving their professional and technical communication knowledge and abilities. Emphasizes clear and concise written, oral, and visual communication strategies. Includes creation of professional documents such as technical descriptions, proposals, correspondence, and other work-related communication in both print and electronic media.
ENGL 3340: Digital Document Design
Teaches web-based document design and other digital genres. Introduces HTML, CSS, and industry standard tools. Emphasizes rhetorical differences between digital and print documents and focuses on the collaborative and viral nature of web texts.
ENGL 3080: Rhetoric of Pop Culture
Explores popular culture as a contested site of meaning-making, identity formation, and shared experiences. Reviews historical theories that construct the status of the popular versus the comparative labels of the "highbrow" and the "subcultural." Analyzes how media access, socio-economic context, cultural movements, and generational differences formulate taste preferences and different styles of engagement with popular texts.
