• WRTG 4060: Writing & Public Sphere

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course introduces students to historic and evolutionary of the term public sphere. A theoretical outline is followed by opportunities to write across genres and digital platforms. Areas may include activism and social movements, censorship, and synchronous and asynchronous writing related to space and place. Ultimately, students will examine through writing, editing, and design, the ways digital technologies are changing the writing landscape in real and virtual spaces.
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• WRTG 4080: Sonic Rhetorics

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Sonic Rhetorics is designed as both a survey in sound in the rhetorical tradition and as an introduction to sound studies (and sound production) in and across broader scholarly conversations. In the class, students study why sound mattered to pre-Socratic cultures, how and why it came into a kind of competition with sight as a prevailing sensory medium, and how these histories continue to play out today. As part of the class, students will listen to, make, and engage with sound in all its contemporary varieties: Podcasts, playlists, soundscapes, sound maps, concert halls, rock clubs, folksongs, field recordings, and foley stages. Podcasting, especially, makes for a central interest of the class and in lieu of traditional essays, students will produce several over the course of the semester.
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• WRTG 4090: Materiality of the Book

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Meets with WRTG 6090. Through Medieval and early-American marginalia, the advent of the printing press, and the avante-garde's use of typography, this course studies the book as material object and fulcrum in cultural movements. The course examines theories of the book next to brief lessons on letterpress printing and bookbinding. Open to students of all ranges of experience.
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• WRTG 4200: Wrtg Popular Nonfiction

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Focuses on popular nonfiction addressed to a wider audience. Students practice a select set of genres such as travel, memoir, autobiography, biography, history, food, domestics, science, technology, personal philosophy and religion. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.
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• WRTG 4830: Designing for Usability

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Designing for Usability is a course that will prepare you for writing in the workplace. Students will learn principles of document design to help them meet the needs of intended audiences. Students will also be introduced to different methods of gathering user feedback to determine whether texts -- such as instructions or brochures or websites -- are effectively designed. The class will then work together to help a local nonprofit organization improve its website. Students are advised to take WRTG 2010 or its equivalent prior to this course.
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• WRTG 4850: Technical Editing

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Principles and practices of technical editing are the focus of this course. Students will explore the roles of technical editors in manuscript preparation of both hard copy and digital texts. Students will also learn strategies for different levels of copyediting, including comprehensive copyediting and line editing, using both practice documents and texts for a client.
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• WRTG 4890: Wrtg, Persuasion & Pw'r

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course addresses writing as a medium of control over ideas, individuals, and/or groups. Course content may include theories of writing, rhetoric, and discourse; writing and ethnicities; writing and gender; and tools for analyzing power discourses. Objects of study may include academic and professional disciplines, advertising, legislation, media and news coverage, propaganda, and social justice, among other topics. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.
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• WRTG 4905: Professional Discourses

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  This course introduces students to professional discourse, such as legal, medical, governmental, media, or non-profit. Course content may include discourses of legislation, sustainability, risk assessment, world health organizations, legal precedent, and the like. Using a variety of theories and methods for gathering and analyzing professional discourses, students will consider the ways in which professional discourses intersect with larger discourses of power and ideology. Variable topics. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.
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• WRTG 4910: Independent Readings

  1.00 - 3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Group and independent readings on a topic supplementary to student's area of study. Not equivalent to major or minor required courses. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.
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• WRTG 4950: Social Histories Rhet

  3.00 Credits

  University of Utah

  
  Social histories of rhetoric focuses on non-Eurocentric rhetoric and discursive practices, as situated in space, time, social geographies, and everyday lived realities. This course examines not the essence of rhetoric or a system of rhetoric, but rather, attends critically to the socio-cultural exigencies that enable rhetorical activity. Attentive to the question, what do people do in and with rhetoric, we will pursue three lines of inquiry: (1) under what circumstances are rhetorical practices employed and utilized by communities? (2) what rhetorical options are available to communities to express and assert themselves and how is transmission of rhetorical practices facilitated? (3) how does rhetoric reach, if at all, its intended audience, and towards what possibilities does it do so? WRTG 4950 focuses on varying topics based on faculty expertise. Prior to taking this class, Writing & Rhetoric Studies majors are strongly encouraged to take WRTG 3875. Non-majors should consider taking an upper-division theory course in their program prior to taking this class.
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