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Course Listing for WRITING AND RHETORIC - Fall 2024 (ALL: 09/03/2024 - 12/18/2024)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
1561 RHET-103-01 College Writing 1.00 LEC Helberg, Alexander MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to juniors or seniors.
  NOTE: Before making a change to your schedule, please review your advice for writing courses under “Guided Writing Assessment Results” on your transcript page
  NOTE: 2 seats reserved for sophomores, 13 for first-year students.
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
1784 RHET-103-02 College Writing 1.00 LEC Marino, Nicholas TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to juniors or seniors.
  NOTE: Before making a change to your schedule, please review your advice for writing courses under “Guided Writing Assessment Results” on your transcript page
  NOTE: 13 reserved for first-year students, 2 seats reserved for HMTCA students.
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
1562 RHET-103-03 College Writing 1.00 LEC Frymire, Erin MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to juniors or seniors.
  NOTE: Before making a change to your schedule, please review your advice for writing courses under “Guided Writing Assessment Results” on your transcript page
  NOTE: All seats reserved for first-year students.
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
1785 RHET-103-04 College Writing 1.00 LEC Marino, Nicholas WF: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to juniors or seniors.
  NOTE: Before making a change to your schedule, please review your advice for writing courses under “Guided Writing Assessment Results” on your transcript page
  NOTE: 2 seats reserved for sophomores, 13 for first-year students.
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
1786 RHET-103-05 College Writing 1.00 LEC McGill, Lauren WF: 8:30AM-9:45AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to juniors or seniors.
  NOTE: Before making a change to your schedule, please review your advice for writing courses under “Guided Writing Assessment Results” on your transcript page
  NOTE: 2 seats reserved for sophomores, 13 for first-year students
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
3282 RHET-103-06 College Writing 1.00 LEC Papoulis, Irene TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is not open to juniors or seniors.
  An introduction to the art of expository writing, with attention to analytical reading and critical thinking in courses across the college curriculum. Assignments offer students opportunities to read and write about culture, politics, literature, science, and other subjects. Emphasis is placed on helping students to develop their individual skills.
1871 RHET-125-01 Writing for a Digital World 1.00 SEM Helberg, Alexander TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA WEA  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC
  NOTE: Seat Reservations: 2 seniors 3 juniors 5 sophomores, 5 freshman
  As reading and writing shift from pages to screens, images and other visual elements are becoming increasingly important to successful writing. This course is designed to help students think critically about the role of the visual in written communication today. Using digital design tools in combination with academic writing skills such as research and drafting, students will develop strategies and skills for blending images and words effectively in a range of genres and contexts - both digital and printed, academic and professional.
2166 RHET-125-02 Writing for a Digital World 1.00 SEM Helberg, Alexander TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA WEA  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC
  NOTE: Seat Reservations: 2 seniors 3 juniors 5 sophomores, 5 freshman
  As reading and writing shift from pages to screens, images and other visual elements are becoming increasingly important to successful writing. This course is designed to help students think critically about the role of the visual in written communication today. Using digital design tools in combination with academic writing skills such as research and drafting, students will develop strategies and skills for blending images and words effectively in a range of genres and contexts - both digital and printed, academic and professional.
2795 RHET-208-01 Argument & Research Writing 1.00 LEC O'Donnell, Tennyson MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA WEA2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: Seat Reservations: 3 seats for FY, 4 seats sophomore, 5 seats junior, 3 seats senior
  This course delves into the ever-evolving information landscape, exploring how sources mediate knowledge in today's digital age. It emphasizes rhetorical source assessment, aiming to understand how information shapes meaning and our role in interpreting it. Students research topics of interest, applying rhetorical analysis to uncover and advocate for the significance of information presentation.
1564 RHET-302-01 Writing Theories and Practices 1.00 LEC Truman, James TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  NOTE: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a 300-level elective.
  NOTE: Only open to the 15 students who are accepted to the Writing Associates program each year
  This course investigates the theories and practices of writing consultation in North American university writing centers as informed by studies in composition pedagogy, literacy, and rhetoric. Students will be introduced to the broad range of topics found at the intersection of practice and theory in writing centers, including socio-cultural dynamics, grammar instruction, English as a Second Language, learning disorders, critical reading, writing processes, and interpersonal communication. The course will encourage students to create new knowledge about writing and tutor research. By invitation only. For students admitted to the Writing Associates Program.
3279 RHET-315-01 Writing in the Public Sphere 1.00 SEM Papoulis, Irene TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA Y WEA2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is a writing workshop in which students will explore the theory as well as the practice of language in the public sphere. Students will write and revise long and short essays aimed at various sources of news and information; they will also analyze those sources. Possible questions include: How do written words affect the process by which public opinion is formed? How can writing best promote public dialogue and deliberation? How is our concept of "writing" evolving in a changing digital landscape? How do various personalities and perspectives gain cultural prominence? How can we best participate as writers in the public sphere? Students will follow current issues with a goal of participating through writing in public conversations.
3339 RHET-321-01 Rhetorical Methodologies 1.00 SEM Marino, Nicholas TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  What does it mean to conduct research within the field of rhetoric? How do rhetoricians discover and analyze the persuasive potential of various situations? In this course, we answer these questions by exploring the disciplinary methods used to create knowledge about rhetoric, particularly how it shapes and is shaped by social, cultural, and digital landscapes. Since rhetoric, at its core, is about changing the world via persuasion, we apply these critical research methods to questions of power, identity, and equity by investigating rhetoric's formative role in discourses on civil rights, disability, race, sexuality, etc. Students will take away not only a fundamental understanding of rhetoric's methodologies, but also the skills needed to persuasively intervene in social, cultural, and political issues affecting campus, Hartford, and beyond.
3185 RHET-360-01 Rhetorics of Law 1.00 SEM Frymire, Erin MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Law is an assemblage of words that rhetorically shape our reality. It affects human behavior, directs human choices, and even has the power to end human lives. This course will explore the nature of law as a rhetorical construct and law's complex relationship to violence. Students will study the work of legal and rhetorical scholars who challenge common views of law as objective or apolitical and then consider the rhetorical role of violence in the law via theoretical texts and case studies. While the course will focus on the legal system in the United States, the final project will provide an opportunity to expand our scope to an international scale.
1711 RHET-395-01 Academic Internship 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Internship or field work placement, with a required academic component to be determined by the faculty sponsor and student. Students need to submit a completed internship contract form to Career Services. Students will not be enrolled until the contract has been approved.
1608 RHET-399-01 Independent Study 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Submission of the special registration form, available in the Registrar’s Office, and the approval of the instructor and Writing Center director are required for enrollment.
1577 RHET-466-01 Teaching Assistant 0.50 - 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Students may assist professors as teaching assistants, performing a variety of duties usually involving assisting students in conceiving or revising papers; reading and helping to evaluate papers, quizzes, and exams; and other duties as determined by the student and instructor. See instructor of specific course for more information. Submission of the special registration form, available online, and the approval of the instructor are required for enrollment. Guidelines are available in the College Bulletin. (0.5 - 1 course credit)
2879 RHET-498-01 Senior Thesis Part 1 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is the first part of a two semester, two credit thesis. Submission of the special registration form and the approval of the thesis adviser and the director are required for enrollment. The registration form is required for each semester of this year-long thesis.
2401 EDUC-206-01 Data Visualization for All 1.00 SEM Dougherty, Jack MW: 11:30AM-12:45PM TBA NUM  
  Enrollment limited to 19 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC, PBPL, RHET, URST
  How can charts and maps tell meaningful stories? How can they mislead us from the truth? In this introductory hands-on course, we will create data visualizations in order to better understand design principles and develop a critical analysis of the field. Students will learn skills in both quantitative reasoning and digital storytelling as we advance from beginner tools to editing code templates. For the community learning component, our class will build interactive charts and maps on a public policy issue with a Hartford-area partner organization. No coding experience is necessary, but curiosity is required.