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21 courses with the subject WRDS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

WRDS 1103Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I and II3

or WRDS 1104 - Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I and II with Studio (4)

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 1104Writing and Inquiry in Academic Contexts I and II with6

Studio (4) II. Quantitative/Data Competency Courses The Quantitative / Data competency develops a student’s ability to analyze, manipulate, and interpret quantitative information and data. Students are required to complete 6 credit hours in mathematics, statistics, deductive logic or computer science from the following list, and of those at least 3 credit hours must be designated as a MATH o a STAT course. These courses serve as the foundation for the quantitative/data competency. Mathematics, Statistics, Deductive Logic, or Computer

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 6
Credits (max): 6
Credit unit: credit hours
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 2100Introduction to Digital Studies in Writing3

Prerequisite(s): WRDS 1103, WRDS 1104. Cross-listed Course(s): HCAI 3112. A survey of “digital studies” from both theoretical and practical perspectives, providing students with a broad intellectual framework for understanding how digital platforms, tools, and networks have evolved to shape composition processes and alter the writer-audience dynamic. Students will practice composing across digital modes while developing a more sophisticated understanding of the rhetorical processes of reading and writing in digital spaces and honing their abilities to participate more effectively as writers in those spaces. Major topics can include generative AI and Large Language Models; digital genres such as filmmaking and podcasting; digital publishing like web design, blogging, and self-publication; and the digital ethics around accessibility, algorithms, remix culture, and digital privacy.

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 2101Advanced Writing: Research and Critical Analysis3

or WRDS 3102 - The Effective Sentence: A Writing Course for All Majors (3)

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 3102The Effective Sentence: A Writing Course for All Majors3

(3) Prerequisite(s): WRDS 1103 or WRDS 1104 with a grade of C or above. Students build their writing flexibility by looking at contemporary and historical writing exercises, multiple ways to word sentences, and writing that matches readers’ needs, not the writer’s. Students consider the old- to-new information flow, sentence rhythm and stress, grammar, usage, punctuation, writing, and revising to create a cumulative ePortfolio. WRDS 3140. Arguing With Images. (3) Prerequisite(s): WRDS 1103 or WRDS 1104 with a grade of C or above. Visual rhetoric and culture teaches students to become proficient and thoughtful users of visual argumentation and to understand how visual rhetoric operates within specific sociocultural and political contexts. Through attention to particular examples of controversies involving images, students learn why and how images matter, and how to leverage the power of images in both an effective and a sensitive way. Assignments require students both to analyze particular controversies involving images, and to create their own images that make controversial arguments.

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 3140Arguing With Images3

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 3160AI in the Public Imagination3

WRDS 2xxx/3xxx - Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Elective (3) (excluding courses already applied toward the major) WRDS 4xxx - Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Elective (3) (excluding courses already applied toward the major) Unrestricted Elective Courses, Double Major and/or Minor to Complete Requirements for Graduation Students must earn a minimum of 120 credit hours to graduate. This requirement can be fulfilled through a combination of elective courses, a minor, or a double major. The 120-credit minimum must be satisfied regardless of the specific academic path chosen (e.g., a minor combined with electives). Degree Total = 120 Credit Hours

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 3210Foundations in Human-AI Writing: Prompting

Partnerships (3)

Subject: WRDS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 3211Online Writing: Ethics, Appropriation, and Social Media3

or WRDS 3215 - Information Literacy and Digital Composing (3)

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 3215Information Literacy and Digital Composing3

Unrestricted Elective Courses, Double Major and/or Minor to Complete Requirements for Graduation Students must earn a minimum of 120 credit hours to graduate. This requirement can be fulfilled through a combination of elective courses, a minor, or a double major. The 120-credit minimum must be satisfied regardless of the specific academic path chosen (e.g., a minor combined with electives). Degree Total = 120 Credit Hours

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 3220Current Theories and Applications of Writing3

Prerequisite(s): WRDS 1103 or WRDS 1104 with a grade of C or above. Building on historical approaches in composition and rhetorical theories, this activity-based class engages students in a variety of tasks that help them enact the main principles of the discipline. Learning how theories in writing are processes in the making, students learn to use theories to interrogate writing challenges, adapt theories when new tasks present, and develop flexible approaches to communicating in traditional and emerging contexts.

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4011Topics in Writing Technologies3

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4021Topics in Writing and Reading3

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4201Composing Across Borders: Transnational Digital

Composition (3)

Subject: WRDS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4210Contemporary Rhetorical Theory3

Community and Culture Courses (9 credit hours) 2026-2027 UNC CHARLOTTE UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4225Writing Research Methods3

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4330Reading, Writing, and Archiving: Charlotte3

Major Elective Courses (9 credit hours) Select three of the following:

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4400Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies Internship

Practicum (3) or WRDS 4900 - Senior Research Capstone (3) Application of Writing and Rhetoric in Print and Digital Environments Courses (9 credit hours) Select three of the following:

Subject: WRDS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4402Research, Theory, and Practice of Tutoring Writing3

Cross-listed Course(s): ENGL 4400 and ENGL 5400. Prerequisite(s): WRDS 1103 or WRDS 1104; and interview and permission of WRC Director and/or Assistant Director. A practicum, which educates peer tutors to assist writers in the Writing Resources Center (WRC). All writing consultants are required to complete this course, which provides an introduction to writing center research, theory, and practice. Coursework explores the history, contexts, and research-based principles of writing centers; the social, collaborative nature of learning; strategies of one- with-one writing instruction; threshold concepts in Writing Studies; composition theory; and current issues in writing pedagogy, such as linguistic justice and accessibility. Significant attention is given to practices for supporting multilingual writers. In addition to completing coursework, students tutor in the WRC for three hours per week. Because this course includes a practicum in the WRC, enrollment is by permission only, following a successful interview with the Director and/or Assistant Director of the WRC.

Subject: WRDS
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4800Independent Study. (1 to 3) Prerequisite(s): Permission

of department. Individual investigations and appropriate exposition of the results. (Unless special permission is granted by the department chair, no more than six hours may apply toward the WRDS major.) May be repeated for credit with permission of department.

Subject: WRDS
Type: course
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit with permission of department.
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

WRDS 4900Senior Research Capstone. (3) Prerequisite(s): Junior or

Senior standing; Writing, Rhetoric, and Digital Studies major or minor; and 2.0 GPA in all major or minor coursework. Pre- or Corequisite(s):

Subject: WRDS
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Source: catalog.charlotte.edu

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