17 courses with the subject WRT, 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.
WRT 0110Writing (GE) 3 Problem Solving (GE)3
Creative Expression (GE) 3 Humanities (GE) 3 Social Science (GE) 3 Multiculturalism/Gender (GE) 3 Ethics in Action (GE) 3 Religious Studies (GE) 3 TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15 Second Year/First Semester Second Year/Second Semester Course Code Credits Course Code Credits Foreign Language I 3 Foreign Language II 3 WRT 0170 Adv Comp & Oral Com 3 PSC 0261 Civ Rights & Lib 3 Natural Science (GE) 3 SOC 0200 Classical Theory 3
In Advanced Composition and Oral Communication, students will build upon the writing, research, and analytical skills he/she developed in First-Year Writing. Through consideration of a range of genres, styles, and audiences, students will use their critical-thinking and research skills to craft both written and oral arguments. Assignments will include papers, short writing assignments, oral presentations, and a final group project. This course fulfills a Core Skills requirement in the Undergraduate College’s General Education program.
A detailed study into the art of persuasion and argumentation. The course will take an advanced study into the history of rhetoric and look at rhetoric as an art of civil discourse. Students in the course will engage in writing and research, debate and criticism, as well as studying a variety of nonfiction and multimodal texts.
Introduction to Creative Writing gives the student an opportunity to explore personal voice and style and experiment with different modes of creative writing. In this course, you will study an overview of the art and craft of writing poems, fiction and creative non-fiction stories. We will read, analyze, and write works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction to understand better the ways creative writers think about and utilize their craft. Students will share their own work and read the work of other course participants.
Creative Writing – Nonfiction teaches students how to write effective prose in the genre popularly referred to as Creative Nonfiction. In this class, students will analyze the work of established creative nonfiction writers and then build upon that research through writing their own creative nonfiction. Through class discussions, workshops and conferences, students will also learn how to give and receive productive feedback on the creative nonfiction of their peers and how to submit their work for publication.
The workshop format of this course will allow students to read and discuss each other’s work as well as a range of short fiction from established writers—contemporary and classic. With a focus on individual goals, students will create a portfolio to include flash fiction as well as short stories of varying lengths, including a chapter for a longer text. Offered every third year.
Business Writing is designed for students from a range of majors to learn the necessary rhetorical and research skills needed for their professional careers. Assignments will include business letters, memos, reports, proposals, and collaborative projects. The subject-centered focus of the course will vary each semester at the instructor’s discretion. This course is offered in the spring semester. *This course cross-lists with COM-0240.
WRT 0245EMPOWERED THROUGH PROSE: CREATIVE WRITING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Do words really hold power in today’s climate? What does it mean to be a writer-activist? How can we use our writing to advocate for and enact social change? These are questions we will seek to answer in this creative writing course. This class will be equally focused on both the craft of writing for social action (and reading) and the practice of workshopping your own work through fiction writing, poetry, creative nonfiction, and community writing. The hybrid format allows for both in class and digital writing, collaboration, and production. Prerequistes: WRT 0110 or POI
WRT 0250THE POWER OF THE PEN, WRITING ABOUT PLACE, THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA
A study of the historical and literary works in the city of Philadelphia. Through careful reading, critical thinking, and persuasive writing. students will focus on learning the importance of place in writing. This course also explores modes of writing and rhetoric that had influences past and present writers in the city of Philadelphia. Firsthand visits to literary and historical sites in the city will be included on this course.
This course explores reading and writing in digital spaces, allowing the student to learn how digital environments create ways for writers to address multiple audiences, use visual texts, and communicate effectively.
The course is a writing intensive fiction workshop where students build on the skills they have developed in previous creative writing and literature courses. This class assumes that students already have a solid understanding of and practice in basic fiction writing, and they are serious and active writers of prose fiction. Students read and discuss published stories while also providing constructive oral and written feedback on the writing of their peers in a workshop setting and will produce multiple works of fiction over the course of the semester which are revised and submitted in a final portfolio.
This course introduces the basic principles and various styles and modes required for successful business communication. Students will learn the importance of audience and context when writing professionally. They will complete individual and group projects with specific objectives in mind and learn how to implement business related strategies including formal and informal research, brainstorming and peer review. 622
