37 courses with the subject ENWR, 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.
Effective Date 01/01/2021 These writing classes are for students in the UVA Edge program. They help students develop critical writing skills for academia, the workplace and life. See https://edge.virginia.edu/ for details.
Effective Date 01/01/2022 Part I of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://professionalwriting.as.virginia.edu/requirements. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search. Requisites Enrollment not allowed in this class if the First Year Writing requirement has been fulfilled.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Part II of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Effective Date 08/01/2015 Part I of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search. Requisites Enrollment not allowed in this class if the First Year Writing requirement has been fulfilled.
Effective Date 08/01/2015 Part II of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Effective Date 08/01/2023 The single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement– intended to be taken during the first year of study– this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names start in A-K must take ENWR 1510 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring. Requisites Enrollment not allowed in this class if the First Year Writing requirement has been fulfilled.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Requires off-grounds work with local non-profits. A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement– intended to be taken during the first year of study– approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names end in A-K must satisfy the first writing requirement in the fall; those with last names ending in L-Z in the spring.
Effective Date 06/13/2023 The single-semester lecture option for meeting the first writing requirement– intended to be taken during the first year of study– this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names start in A-K must take ENWR 1510, 1520, or 1530 in the fall; those with last names starting in L-Z take it in the spring.
Effective Date 08/01/2021 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Effective Date 09/22/2022 This course will enable students to gain fluency in linking their academic writing to public debates. In particular, the course will investigate the status of democracy as both a concept and set of participatory practices, asking students to consider how their education might support a robust democratic sphere. Students will engage with global democratic advocates (via Zoom) as well as a democratic organizing skills workshop. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ENWR 2520 topic #49 Rebuilding Democracy
Effective Date 08/01/2023 A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement– intended to be taken during the first year of study– this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Enrollment limited to students meeting benchmarks determined by the Writing Program.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Includes courses on writing studies, corporate communications, and digital writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Effective Date 08/01/2021 Offers a changing selection of writing and rhetoric courses focusing on rhetoric and composition in digital platforms.
Effective Date 02/13/2024 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Effective Date 03/25/2016 Develops an understanding of the wide range of stylistic moves in prose writing, their uses, and implications. Students build a rich vocabulary for describing stylistic decisions, imitate and analyze exemplary writing, and discuss each others writing in a workshop setting.
Effective Date 02/01/2023 Course explores historical, theoretical, and practical conceptions of writing as technology. We study various writing systems, the relation of writing to speaking and visual media, and the development of writing technologies, e.g., printing presses, typewriters, hypertext, text messaging, and artificial intelligence. Students produce academic and personal essays but will also experiment creatively with different technologies and media.
Effective Date 01/27/2025 With false data and unsourced health guidance littering our social media feeds, we live in a dangerous era of medical misinformation. Developing practical skills to communicate accurate medical information could save someone’s life. In this course, you will develop storytelling skills and sharpen your ability to write about medicine.
Effective Date 08/01/2010 Introductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Effective Date 03/05/2018 An inquiry-based approach to the development of a confident, engaging, and ethical public speaking style. Beyond practical skills, this course emphasizes rhetorical thinking: what are the conventions of public speaking? Where are there opportunities to deviate from convention in ways that might serve a speech’s purpose? How might we construct an audience through the ways we craft language and plan the delivery of our speech?
Effective Date 01/01/2026 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new, advanced topic in the subject area of writing and rhetoric. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://engl.virginia.edu/courses. Requisites Students enrolling in this class must have completed the First Writing Requirement.
Effective Date 01/01/2026 Offers a changing selection of writing and rhetoric courses focusing on rhetoric and composition in digital platforms.
Effective Date 05/01/2026 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic, professional, and creative writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Effective Date 01/01/2022 In this course, we’ll look at a variety of texts from academic arguments, narratives, and pedagogies, to consider what it means to write, communicate, and learn across cultures. Topics will include contrastive rhetorics, world Englishes, rhetorical listening, and tutoring multilingual writers. A service learning component will require students to volunteer weekly in the community. Requisites Students enrolling in this class must have completed the First Writing Requirement.
Effective Date 11/20/2023 In this reading- and writing-intensive course, we engage a range of work on literacy and cognition, including technical treatments of issues such as neural development and brain connected to literacy tasks. We read extensive peer-reviewed work from neurologists and cognitive scientists, creativity experts, mental health practitioners, and professional writers and editors, all trying to understand the relationship between literacy and our minds. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ENWR 2520 topic #40 Rewriting Yourself: Literacy & the Brain
Effective Date 03/25/2016 This course trains students to become attuned, thoughtful listeners and sonic composers. In addition to discussing key works on sound from fields such as rhetoric and composition, sound studies, and journalism, we will experiment with the possibilities of sound as a valuable form of writing and storytelling. Students will learn how to use digital audio editing tools, platforms, and techniques for designing and producing sonic projects.
Effective Date 02/17/2017 This course will explore travel writing using a variety of texts, including essays, memoirs, blogs, photo essays, and narratives. We will examine cultural representations of travel as well as the ethical implications of tourism. Students will have the opportunity to write about their own travel experiences, and we will also embark on “local travel” of our own. Requisites Students enrolling in this class must have completed the First Writing Requirement.
Effective Date 02/17/2017 This course focuses on creating meaningful, responsible, and engaged writing in the context of significant environmental issues. Analysis of representative environmental texts, familiarity with environmental concepts, examination of ethical positions in private and public spheres of writing, and sustained practice with form, style, medium, and genre will drive a variety of writing projects. Requisites Students enrolling in this class must have completed the First Writing Requirement.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Merging theory and practice, this course invites students to explore the writing process through the lens of documentary film. Through analyzing films and creating formal documentary film treatments, students explore the tension between artistry and pragmatism as they deepen their understanding of documentary film as a genre, confronting its affordances—both the possibilities and the constraints.
Effective Date 08/01/2026 Arguing Like a Scholar examines how the linguistic and rhetorical features of argumentation might be adapted for academic and professional contexts. The course will make two primary movements: The first is an examination of how argumentation works through the lens of classical and contemporary rhetorical theory. Second, students will do original comparative research on the linguistic and rhetorical features of texts in two different disciplines.
Effective Date 08/01/2025 An in-depth study of African American political speeches, letters, sermons, essays, and book-length texts that examines the debates, strategies, styles, and persuasive practices employed by African Americans in dialogue with the larger nation and among themselves. Requisites Students enrolling in this class must have completed the First Writing Requirement.
Effective Date 02/27/2020 A chronological survey of the persuasive communication and writing strategies Black women have used towards the project of empowerment and activism in speeches, essays, poetry, drama, and novels. Requisites Students must have completed the First Writing Requirement and can’t enroll if previously taken ENWR 3500 topic #4 Black Women’s Writing & Rhetoric
Effective Date 09/24/2021 Political propaganda often persuades through conspiracy theories that create suspicion and fear. This course examines the rhetorical strategies of conspiracy-driven propaganda from the 20th and 21st centuries. By examining the arguments, evidence, images, myths, and tropes that animate propaganda and conspiracy theories, we will identify how they are circulated to inflame our emotions, exploit our prejudices, and bias our decision-making. Requisites Students enrolling in this class must have completed the First Writing Requirement.
Effective Date 11/20/2023 An introduction to critical frameworks and methods for exploring how rhetorics construct, preserve, and augment social understandings of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, ability, class and more. Areas of focus may include: cultural practices of writing, digital rhetorics, performance, popular culture, material rhetorics, visual rhetorics, race and ethnicity. Specific themes and topics may vary. Requisites Students can’t enroll if previously taken ENWR 3500 topic #12 Studies in Cultural Rhetorics
Effective Date 10/10/2024 Students in Making Books (ENWR 3810) will gain a broad view of book editing and publishing in the 21st century, as well as hands-on experience with developmental, substantive, and copy editing. Appropriate for aspiring publishing professionals, but also for anyone who simply wants to better understand the often-hidden lives of books-in-progress, or to take their writing skills to a new level.
Effective Date 08/01/2021 Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design. Requisites Students enrolling in this class must have completed the First Writing Requirement.
Effective Date 08/01/2022 This course provides the opportunity to offer a new topic in the subject area of academic writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Effective Date 01/08/2025 An independent study course for the Writing & Rhetoric department.
Source: University of Virginia-Main Campus's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 59
