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Course Info for RHET - 260 - 01, Spring 2026
Class number: 2835 Title: What is Rhet/Comp? Department: Writing and Rhetoric
Career: Undergraduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 15 Current enrollment: 12 Available seats: 3
Start date: Tuesday, January 20, 2026 End date: Friday, May 8, 2026 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM, MC - 309 Instructor(s): Frymire, Erin
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Writing Emphasis Part1 and Hum Requirements
Note: Two seats reserved for instructor use.
Course Description:
How do human beings effectively communicate with one another? What strategies do we use to speak and write persuasively? What are the best ways to learn to write? How do social, cultural, political, linguistic, and other elements of human life impact the ways we write, speak, and learn to write? How do visual and textual literacies relate to questions of race, gender, and power? These are the central questions of Rhetoric and Composition – a field that stretches from the ancient world to the 21st century college writing classroom and continues to pursue these questions in our ever-changing world. In this course, we will explore how scholars in Rhetoric and Composition have approached, answered, and complicated these questions.