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Course Listing for WRITING AND RHETORIC - Spring 2026 (ALL: 01/20/2026 - 05/08/2026)
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No.		 Course ID Title Credits Type Instructor(s) Days:Times Location Permission
Required		 Dist Qtr
1219 RHET-103-01 College Writing 1.00 LEC Helberg, Alexander MW: 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: 4 seats reserved for sophomores.
  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.
1665 RHET-103-02 College Writing 1.00 LEC Starr, Brittany 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: 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.
2329 RHET-103-03 College Writing 1.00 LEC McGill, Lauren WF: 8:30AM-9:45AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N 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.
2832 RHET-108-01 Research and Writing 1.00 SEM Truman, James TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA WEA2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Research is a fundamental element of academic writing. In this class, students will explore and apply practical methods of library, database, and internet research. Using different strategies for source assessment and management, they will develop research-based writing skills across a range of academic disciplines.
2983 RHET-128-01 Writing and Mindfulness 1.00 SEM Starr, Brittany MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUWW  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with WELL
  In this course, you will analyze theories of mindfulness and engage in classroom exercises designed to demonstrate how contemplative practices can improve writing. Through a writing-workshop approach, you will write and revise analytical essays; you will also write regular informal reflections on a range of readings and practices. The ultimate goal of the course is to teach you to harness the complexities of your internal and external experiences in order to generate thoughtful and original writing.
2316 RHET-209-01 Academic Leadership 1.00 SEM O'Donnell, Tennyson MW: 10:00AM-11:15AM TBA HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 49 Waitlist available: Y Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Introduces the interconnected scholarship of leadership, mentoring, and tutoring in order to explore the potential for leadership development through mentoring and tutoring. This is the anchor course for the Leadership in Mentoring and Tutoring certificate.
2833 RHET-210-01 Professional & Tech Writing 1.00 SEM Helberg, Alexander MW: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA WEA2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  In this course, students explore the multifarious dynamics of professional and technical written style and their role as rhetorical decision-makers in their writing and revision process. Students will learn to apply the principles of professional style in producing and editing written texts, as well as applying the technical vocabulary of style in producing in-depth editorial reflections that explain and justify their decision-making processes. In addition, students will explore some of the representational and ethical issues associated with their writing style in a variety of public and professional contexts.
2834 RHET-230-01 Visual Rhetorics 1.00 SEM Marino, Nicholas TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM TBA WEA2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  Also cross-referenced with CLIC
  This course explores the rhetorical power of visual images. Students will examine how rhetoric is a means for knowing, communicating, and becoming as they explore different visual media, like photography, video, and even virtual reality. Using rhetorical methodologies, they will research how visual rhetoric creates realities and encourages audiences to become different subjects through an interactive, multimodal project. More specifically, we will explore how the rhetorical appeals (i.e. ethos, logos, and pathos) transform in visual, rhetorical situations, and we will discover how rhetoricians adapt rhetorical situation theory to meet the expectations and needs of viewers. By the end of the course, students will understand how rhetorical theory and practice shapes and is shaped by visual design, multimodal communication, and the politics of visual representation
2835 RHET-260-01 What is Rhet/Comp? 1.00 SEM Frymire, Erin MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM TBA WEA2  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  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.
2836 RHET-330-01 Macho Rhetorics 1.00 SEM Marino, Nicholas TR: 1:30PM-2:45PM TBA HUIP  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  From a rhetorical standpoint, what does it mean to argue there are multiple models of masculinity? Using rhetorical methodologies, where could we locate these masculinities: in bodies, social interactions, or culture? This course focuses on the relationship between rhetoric and masculinities. After delving into rhetoric's gendered history, we will investigate how scholars in different disciplines rhetorically construct men and masculinities through their writing and research practices. We will never lose track of how rhetoric also shapes our daily lives. In particular, we will explore how our experiences on campus connect to global discussions about masculinity. Students from any discipline will find productive opportunities to apply the study the rhetoric and masculinity to work in their majors, while learning how research is conducted in other disciplines.
1716 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.
1062 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.
1239 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)
2290 RHET-499-01 Senior Thesis Part 2 1.00 IND TBA TBA TBA Y HUM  
  Enrollment limited to 15 Waitlist available: N Mode of Instruction: In Person  
  This course is the second 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.