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RHET 1001 - Introduction to Scientific and Technical Communication
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 1001 until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 3001 until 08-SEP-20, was WRIT 1001 until 08-SEP-09
Research origins/history. Defining technical communication in professional world. Focuses on audience, purpose, ethics, global communication, and collaboration. Journal articles, student/professional organizations, guest presentations, interviews. Career assessment inventories, in-class/electronic discussions, oral presentations, feasibility report.
RHET 1101 - Writing to Inform, Convince, and Persuade
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3101W until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 3101 until 19-JAN-10, was WRIT 1101 until 08-SEP-09, ENGC 1012H (inactive, ending 06-SEP-05, starting 21-MAY-01, was ENGC 1812 until 05-SEP-00), ENGC 1011H (inactive, ending 06-SEP-05, was ENGC 1811 until 05-SEP-00), ENGC 1016 (inactive, ending 21-MAY-07), PSTL 1424 (inactive, ending 05-SEP-06, starting 22-JAN-02, was GC 1424 until 05-SEP-06), ENGC 1014H (inactive, ending 03-SEP-02, starting 21-MAY-01, was ENGC 1814 until 05-SEP-00), WRIT 1301H, WRIT 1301, ENGC 1014 (inactive, ending 21-MAY-07, starting 21-MAY-01), WRIT 3101W (ending 21-MAY-07, starting 16-JAN-01, was WRIT 3101 until 19-JAN-10, was WRIT 1101 until 08-SEP-09, was RHET 1101 until 21-MAY-07), ENGC 1012 (inactive, ending 21-MAY-07, starting 21-MAY-01), ENGC 1013 (inactive, ending 21-MAY-07, starting 21-MAY-01), ENGC 1013H (inactive, ending 06-SEP-05, starting 21-MAY-01, was ENGC 1813 until 05-SEP-00), PSTL 1423 (inactive, ending 02-SEP-08, starting 22-JAN-02, was GC 1423 until 05-SEP-06), ENGC 1015 (inactive, ending 21-MAY-07, starting 21-MAY-01), WRIT 1011 (inactive, ending 06-SEP-05, was ENGC 1011 until 21-MAY-07), WRIT 1401 (starting 21-MAY-07), PSTL 1422 (inactive, ending 02-SEP-08, starting 05-SEP-00, was GC 1422 until 05-SEP-06)
Writing effectively in an academic setting. Emphasizes analyzing/creating logical arguments. Standards of clarity, cohesion, and correctness.
RHET 1152W - Writing on Issues of Science and Technology [WI C/PE]
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3152W until 18-JAN-22, was WRIT 1152W until 08-SEP-09, was RHET 1152 until 05-SEP-00
Ethical, social, and political challenges created by science/technology. Analyzes persuasion strategies through which experts, political decision-makers, and citizens meet these challenges. Bioscience controversies such as cloning, organ transplantation. Controversies over pollution, ozone depletion.
RHET 1223 - Oral Presentations in Professional Settings
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 1223 until 21-MAY-07, COMM 1101H (starting 18-JAN-00, was SPCH 1101H until 03-SEP-02), PSTL 1461 (inactive, starting 07-SEP-99, was GC 1461 until 05-SEP-06), COMM 1101 (starting 07-SEP-99, was SPCH 1101 until 03-SEP-02), WRIT 1223 (inactive, ending 20-JAN-04, starting 07-SEP-99, was RHET 1223 until 21-MAY-07)
Techniques for analyzing an audience, determining a purpose, developing an argument, and delivering a presentation. Emphasizes using presentations, basic communication theories.
RHET 1311 - The Family in American Experience [LIT CD]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 1311 until 19-JAN-10
The American family as portrayed in fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. Introduction to literature both as artistic and as ideological construct. Analysis of the social critique of American family life.
RHET 1315 - The Land in American Experience [OH CD]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3315 until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 1315 until 08-SEP-09
Land in America as idea and as actual space. History of cultural values and the meanings land holds for us. Contrasting views of land, especially those of certain Native American peoples. Rise of the conservation movement and the urbanization of U.S. space.
RHET 1381W - Rhetorical Fictions and 20th Century Conflicts: West Africa, Vietnam, and the Middle East [LIT WI IP]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was COMM 3681W until 17-MAY-21, was COMM 1681W until 21-MAY-12, was WRIT 1381W until 02-SEP-08, was RHET 1381 until 05-SEP-00
Analysis of selected 20th-century documentary novels. Nature of artistic truth in relation to historical truth. Cross-cultural comparisons of responses to impact of Anglo-American policies.
RHET 1910W - Topics: Freshman Seminar [WI] (Topics course)
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 1910W until 21-MAY-18
Topics vary.
RHET 3108 - Gender and Ethnicity and the Rhetoric of Science and Technology [CD]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3108 until 18-JAN-11, was RHET 3108W until 05-SEP-06, was RHET 5108 until 05-SEP-00
How cultural gender roles are affected by science/technology. Influence of gender roles on scientific/technological thinking (e.g., communication strategies, language, image). Values/goals of past/present scientific/technological communities.
RHET 3221W - Theories of Human Communication [WI SSCI C/PE]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3221W until 17-MAY-21, was RHET 3221 until 05-SEP-00
Through lecture, discussion, simulations, and small group work students become familiar with theories and practices of interpersonal, small group, organizational, and scientific, and technical communication.
RHET 3257 - Scientific and Technical Presentations
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3257 until 16-JAN-24
Oral presentation skills for scientific or technical topics. Visual communication, audience analysis, organizing a presentation, and presenting complex material. Emphasizes use of computers.
RHET 3266 - Group Process, Team Building, and Leadership [C/PE]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3266 until 21-MAY-07
Group processes, team building from perspective of managers/leaders. Communication techniques in small group decision making process. Theories of team/small-group communication. Case studies. Group project for each student.
RHET 3270 - Special Topics (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3270 until 03-SEP-24
See Class Schedule.
RHET 3291 - Independent Study
(1 cr [max 3]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3291 until 06-SEP-22
Supervised reading and research on topics not covered in regularly scheduled offerings. Intended primarily for upper division undergraduate students.
RHET 3302 - Science, Religion, and the Search for Human Nature [OH]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3302 until 17-JAN-12, was RHET 1302 until 06-SEP-05
Relationship of religion and science as ways of explaining human nature and behavior. Focus on 19th century: impact of Darwin's theory and historical study of Biblical texts. Existentialism and political ecology as modern efforts that problematize "human nature."
RHET 3361 - Literature of Social Movements in the United States: 1950 to 2000 [LIT C/PE]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3361 until 03-SEP-19
Analysis of literature (fictional, nonfictional) of social movements in the United States in last half of 20th century. Artistic truth in relation to historical truth. Roles/obligations of citizens to protest/change social structures.
RHET 3371 - Technology, Self, and Society [HP C/PE]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3371W until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 3371 until 22-JAN-13
Cultural history of American technology. Social values that technology represents in shifts from handicraft to mass production/consumption to modern transportation, communication, and bioengineering. Ethical issues involved in themes of power, work, identity, and our relation to nature. How technology conditions our way of thinking.
RHET 3376W - Terrorism [WI IP C/PE]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was COMM 3676W until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 3376W until 02-SEP-08, was RHET 3376 until 18-JAN-05
Terrorism is not only an ethical but an international problem. Different cultures have meant different historical trajectories for terrorism. To illustrate this, the course contrasts Algerian, Irish, and Arab terrorism.
RHET 3381 - 20th-Century Culture [OH]
(3 cr; Student Option)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3381W until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 3381 until 07-SEP-10
Culture represented in historical/political events and arts of the period. Emphasis on European and American painting with units on architecture, literature, film, and theater, as well as a consideration of philosophy and ethics in other disciplines.
RHET 3382W - War [WI OH C/PE]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was COMM 3682W until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 3382W until 02-SEP-08, was RHET 3382 until 18-JAN-05
Claim: If ethics (right/wrong) exist in war, then right/wrong exist everywhere. Students experience this claim through its expression in various arts/humanities media of history, memoir, philosophical meditation, and film.
RHET 3383 - In Search of Nature [ENVT OH]
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3383 until 19-JAN-10
The human need for a relationship with nature and the ways we organize our environment to reflect this need. Various images such as the pastoral and wilderness are traced historically. Tensions between rural and urban views of nature.
RHET 3384 - From Soil to Civilization: Agriculture and the Emergence of the Modern World [SSCI IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3384 until 20-JAN-09
Central importance of emergence of agriculture (i.e., domestication of plants/animals) in development of settled communities, cities, nations, and empires. How it happened, how we know. Differences among agricultural developments on different continents.
RHET 3401 - Internet Communication: Tools and Issues
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3401 until 08-SEP-09
Current/developing tools/issues of internet-based communication. E-mail, e-commerce, social/cultural context of communication. Discussion topics vary, depending on current issues in existing or emerging technologies. Active online participation required.
RHET 3404 - Environmental Communication
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3404 until 07-SEP-10
Major concepts in communication theory. Framing, audience analysis, message design, usability. Case studies of campaigns related to wilderness protection, pesticide use, and climate change. Team building, public speaking, document design, Web development.
RHET 3441 - Essentials of Grammar, Punctuation, and Style (internet delivered)
(2 cr; S-N only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3441 until 17-MAY-21
Progressive online instruction, examples of concepts taught, immediate feedback, continual tracking of progress.
RHET 3470 - Special Topics in Communication Skills (Topics course)
(2 cr; Student Option; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3470 until 02-SEP-14
Topics vary, see current Class Schedule.
RHET 3562W - Technical and Professional Writing [WI]
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3562W until 17-MAY-21, was RHET 3562 until 05-SEP-00
Written/oral communication in professional settings. Gathering information, analyzing audience, assessing conventional formats. Drafting, testing, revising documents. Oral presentation of final reports.
RHET 3577W - Rhetoric, Technology, and the Internet [C/PE WI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3577W until 05-SEP-23
The Internet from a rhetorical perspective. How the Internet is changing language, power to persuade, scientific/technical knowledge, and legal issues such as copyright, privacy, and free speech. Emphasizes how scientific/technical information is conveyed on the Internet. Ethical issues specific to use of computers.
RHET 3671 - Visual Rhetoric
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3671 until 17-MAY-21, was RHET 4671 until 04-SEP-01
Rhetorical principles applied to visual presentation of information/data in print documents. Students create examples of visual communication and design selected technical publications. Principles of technical writing.
RHET 3672 - Project Design and Development
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3672W until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 3672 until 04-SEP-12, was RHET 4672 until 04-SEP-01
Students study, plan, research, design, and develop technical communication print documents, including documentation, brochures, and newsletters. Introduction to workplace project processes. Emphasizes developing production-quality documents.
RHET 3701W - Rhetorical Theory and Scientific and Technical Communication [WI]
(4 cr; Student Option; offered Periodic Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3701W until 17-MAY-21, was RHET 3701 until 05-SEP-00
Principles/history of rhetorical theory/criticism. Emphasizes classical theories, especially "Aristotle's Rhetoric." Apply Aristotelian concepts to examples of contemporary communication. Relationship of classical theory to scientific discourse, technical communication.
RHET 4105W - Corporate Video for Technical Communicators [WI]
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4105W until 08-SEP-09, was RHET 4105 until 05-SEP-00
Introduction to products, professionals, and processes of corporate video. Students analyze corporate video; submit a proposal, treatment, and script; maintain a journal; complete an interactive unit on production; and conduct research on a video-related topic of their choice.
RHET 4165 - Managerial and Organizational Communication, Planning, and Change
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4165 until 08-SEP-09
A study of organizational theory, communication processes, planning, and change with emphasis on action research in scientific and/or technical settings. Study of organization and management theory to develop organizational consultative skills.
RHET 4196 - Internship in Scientific and Technical Communication (partially internet based)
(1 cr [max 3]; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 3 credits; may be repeated 3 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 3896 until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 4196 until 22-JAN-19
Internships sites may include the University, industry, or government agencies. An internship proposal, progress report, internship journal (optional), and final report with a letter from the internship supervisor is required.
RHET 4258 - Information-Gathering Techniques in Scientific and Technical Communication
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4258 until 17-JAN-12, was RHET 5258 until 06-SEP-05
Informational, employment-cycle, and problem-solving interviews. Emphasizes guides, schedules, questioning techniques, and communication theories. Descriptive statistics used to analyze data for various projects.
RHET 4431 - Intersections of Scientific and Technical Communication and Law
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4431W until 15-MAY-23, was WRIT 4431 until 28-MAY-13
Areas of law relevant to work/interests of scientific/technical communicators. How emerging issues in science/technology are affecting 21st century practice of law. Ownership, access, ethics, information and technology used to frame major topics. Intellectual Property, privacy, health law, and research practice.
RHET 4501 - Usability and Human Factors in Technical Communication
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4501 until 17-MAY-21
Principles/concepts of human factors/usability testing. Developing objectives, criteria, and measures. Conducting tests in lab, field, and virtual environments. Using software programs to analyze qualitative/quantitative data. Lab fee of $36 required for use of the Usability Services Laboratory to conduct usability projects.
RHET 4561 - Editing and Style for Technical Communicators (internet delivered)
(3 cr; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5561 until 17-MAY-21, was WRIT 4561 until 26-MAY-09
Editorial process, style, and ethics for technical subjects. Practice editing skills, cohesion, clarity, coherence, organization, and target audiences for print and online documents. Learn about the writer-editor relationship, mark-up language, electronic editing methods, techniques for editing illustrations and Web content, and copyright issues.
RHET 4562 - Theory and Practice in International Business Communication [IP]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4562 until 15-MAY-23
Theories/practice in international/intercultural scientific, technical, and business communication. Cultural metaphors, research studies. Interviewing people from other cultures, including international business managers. Case studies.
RHET 4573W - Writing Proposals and Grant Management [WI]
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4573W until 15-MAY-23, was RHET 4573 until 20-JAN-04
Research funding sources, interpret an RFP or program announcement, letters of intent, and grant preparation following the guidelines of an RFP or program announcement. Proposals for nonprofits and/or research or business proposals. Will use Microsoft Project.
RHET 4662W - Emerging Technologies in Scientific and Technical Communication [WI]
(4 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 4662W until 15-MAY-23, was RHET 5662W until 04-SEP-01, was RHET 5662 until 05-SEP-00
Creating multimedia, hypertext, online help, and internet documents. Linear/nonlinear design, linking, reading/editing online. Principles of technical communication taught through projects: scripts, online support, mark-up language.
RHET 5001 - Introduction to Graduate Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5001 until 17-JAN-23
History of technical communication. Different audiences, purposes, genres, and emerging trends. International/intercultural issues. Students participate within a community of technical communication professionals.
RHET 5111 - Information Design: Theory and Practice I
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5111 until 06-SEP-11
Audience analysis, media selection, message design through various theoretical perspectives, including cognitive/schema, social construction, feminist, intercultural theories. Usability testing, contextual inquiry as means to study effectiveness of messages.
RHET 5112 - Information Design: Theory and Practice II
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5112 until 07-SEP-21
Political, economic, social, and technical aspects of media selection and message design. Media analyses, scripts, budgets, treatments, project-design plans, interactive screens. Online design project.
RHET 5196 - Internship in Scientific and Technical Communication
(3 cr [max 6]; S-N or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 6 credits)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5196 until 17-MAY-21
Internship sites may include the University, industry, or government agencies. An internship proposal, progress report, internship journal (optional), and final report with a letter from the internship supervisor are required.
RHET 5270 - Special Topics (Topics course)
(1 cr [max 3]; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5270 until 17-MAY-21
Topics specified in Class Schedule.
RHET 5291 - Independent Study
(1 cr [max 3]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5291 until 17-MAY-21
Supervised reading/research on advanced projects not covered in regularly scheduled offerings.
RHET 5511 - Research in Scientific and Technical Communication
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5511 until 23-MAY-16
Experimental/survey research techniques for quantitative/qualitative methodologies in scientific/technical communication. Face-to-face, phone, focus group interviewing. Questionnaire development, contextual inquiry. Using rating, ranking, q-sort methods. Ethics, experimental bias, inferential statistical analysis.
RHET 5531 - Scientific and Technical Communication Course Development and Pedagogy I
(2 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5531 until 07-SEP-21
Pedagogical philosophy/methodology in beginning writing, speaking, and technical communication class. Introduction to theories underlying teaching/tutoring with technology.
RHET 5532 - Scientific and Technical Communication Course Development and Pedagogy II
(1 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5532 until 03-SEP-24
Mentor with faculty, usually concurrently with student's first teaching assignment. Student shares observations, solves teaching problems in seminar setting. Issues facing new teachers. Developing a philosophy of teaching. Focuses on evaluating work in classroom.
RHET 5534 - Designing Technical Training for Intercultural Audiences
(3 cr; A-F or Audit)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5534 until 02-SEP-14
Select and research a training topic, write learning objectives and outcomes, set the conditions for learning, complete a comprehensive course outline, and one training module.
RHET 5664 - Science Writing for Popular Audiences
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5664 until 07-SEP-21
Criticism and practice to examine how science is "translated" for popular audiences. Use rhetorical theory to critique popularized articles. Develop a heuristic for writing articles and consider controversial issues surrounding the movement from science as "science" to science as "popular."
RHET 5671 - Visual Rhetoric
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5671 until 18-JAN-22
Range/development of visuals, especially those in science/technology. Vocabulary for commenting on, criticizing, and creating visuals.
RHET 5775 - Major Figures in Rhetorical Tradition: Classical Period
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5775 until 07-SEP-21
Classical theories of rhetoric. Epistemological status of rhetoric. Ethical implications of persuasion. Emphasizes "Aristotle's Rhetoric" as founding document. Other figures (e.g., Plato, Isocrates, Cicero, Quintilian).
RHET 5776 - Major Figures in Rhetorical Tradition: Modern Era (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Spring)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5776 until 18-JAN-22
Aristotelian rhetoric in modern era. Fancis Bacon, scientific revolution. George Campbell, rise of human sciences. Kenneth Burke, semiotics in twentieth century. Perelman/Olbrechts-Tyteca, reconciliation with philosophy.
RHET 5777 - Rhetoric of Science
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Spring Even Year)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 5777 until 06-SEP-11
Relationship between rhetorical theory/science. Readings typically include works by rhetoricians, sociologists, historians, and philosophers on role that rhetoric/language play in establishing scientific claims.
RHET 8011 - Research Methods in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8011 until 18-JAN-22
Quantitative/qualitative research methods. Theoretical perspectives that demonstrate/test analytical approaches to scientific/technological rhetoric.
RHET 8012 - Applied Research Methods in Scientific and Technical Communication
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 6 credits; may be repeated 2 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8012 until 17-MAY-21
Introduction to one or two quantitative or qualitative research methods in scientific/technical communication or rhetoric (e.g., ethnography, case studies, discourse analysis).
RHET 8333 - FTE: Master's
(1 cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8333 until 17-MAY-21
RHET 8444 - FTE: Doctoral
(1 cr; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; 6 academic progress units; 6 financial aid progress units)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8444 until 18-JAN-22
RHET 8505 - Professional Practice
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8505 until 13-MAY-24
Extended problem-solving situation in business, government, or industry. Student acts as consultant to explore problem, identify possible solutions, introduce solution, apply it.
RHET 8510 - Topics in Rhetorical Theory, History, and Criticism (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8510 until 17-JAN-23
Rhetorical theory in context of culture influenced by science/technology. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.
RHET 8520 - Topics in Science and Rhetoric (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Periodic Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8520 until 16-JAN-24
Doctoral seminar concerning relationship between rhetoric and science. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.
RHET 8530 - Topics in Feminist Theory in Science, Technology, and Communication (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F only; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8530 until 06-SEP-11
Doctoral seminar on interaction of gender with science/technology. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.
RHET 8540 - Topics in Scientific and Technical Communication Pedagogy (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8540 until 13-MAY-24
Doctoral seminar on theories of pedagogy/research studies that inform technical/scientific classroom/workplace. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.
RHET 8550 - Topics in Technology and Culture (Topics course)
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; offered Every Fall & Spring; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8550 until 15-MAY-23
Doctoral seminar on computer-mediated communication, democracy/technology, controversies over digital communication, privacy/ethical issues. Topics vary. See Class Schedule.
RHET 8666 - Doctoral Pre-Thesis Credits
(1 cr [max 18]; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 60 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8666 until 17-MAY-21
RHET 8775 - Classical Rhetorical Theory
(3 cr; A-F or Audit; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 4 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8775 until 06-SEP-11
Aristotle's "Rhetoric" in context of its times and of Aristotle's other works, especially "The Ethics" and "The Politics."
RHET 8777 - Thesis Credits: Master's
(1 cr [max 18]; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 50 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8777 until 06-SEP-22
RHET 8792 - Directed Readings (independent study)
(1 cr [max 4]; S-N only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8792 until 17-MAY-21
RHET 8794 - Directed Research (independent study)
(1 cr [max 4]; S-N only; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 12 credits; may be repeated 12 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8794 until 17-MAY-21
Supervised research project.
RHET 8888 - Thesis Credit: Doctoral
(1 cr [max 24]; No Grade Associated; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 100 credits; may be repeated 10 times)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8888 until 17-MAY-21
RHET 8995 - Special Problems in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication
(1 cr [max 3]; Student Option; offered Every Fall, Spring & Summer; may be repeated for 3 credits)
Equivalent courses: was WRIT 8995 until 21-MAY-07
Research and readings on special problems or projects.

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