Rhetoric (USP:C1)
- Subject
- ENGL
- Type
- course
- Edition
- 2026-2027
- Source
- www.uwyo.edu
131 courses with the subject ENGL, 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.
Rhetoric (USP:C1)
(COM2)3, AGEC 4965 or AGEC 4970 (COM3) Quantitative (Q) (required for major). ...........7 MATH 1400; 23504 Science5 (PN) ................................................ Human Culture (H)6..........................................6 U.S. & Wyoming Constitutions (V). ..............3 Agricultural Economics7................................ 24 1010, 1020, 3400, 4050 or MKT 3210 (count for either upper-division AGEC or business credit, but not both), 4060, 4500; either 4450 or 4830 or 4840 or 4880; 3 hours of AGEC electives Supporting Agriculture.....................................9 AG College hours other than Agricultural
MLTK 2500. ................................................3 MLTK 2650. ................................................2 MLTK 2700. ................................................4
This course serves as an introduction to the field of Gender and Women's Studies. Students will examine a range of GWST topics, gain knowledge of gender, feminist, and intersectional theories, and learn to apply course concepts and frameworks to analyses of socio-political and representational issues, primarily in U.S. contexts. Max Credit: 3 Cross Listed: AMST 1080 . USP 2003-2014 Code: U3CH, U3D USP 2015 Code: U5H A&S College Core 2015: ASD
Max Credit: 3 USP 2003-2014 Code: U5FY
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Rhetoric II: College and Career ENGL 2015 helps students become stronger writers, speakers, and thinkers, and features assignments that explore issues that pertain to students' majors and future careers. Students will engage in different genres for a range of audiences, revise 1054
Introduces students to the basic tools of literary, film, and media analysis and develops students' critical writing, digital analysis, and oral communication skills. No expertise in literary criticism or film theory is necessary in this course; all majors are welcome. Max Credit: 3
Intro to Creative Writing 2000 Level Broad Historical Sweep - ENGL 3 credit hours 2000 Level Workshop Courses -
Introduction to professional writing that focuses on analyzing and producing texts designed to influence public opinion. Genres may include letters, editorials, web pages, pamphlets, e- mail, speeches, and position papers. Focuses on skills in collaboration and use of technology necessary for ethical, effective participation in public discourse. Max Credit: 3
Cultural Studies in Latino Film is designed to provide an overview and critical study of representative works of Latina/o performance, film writers, directors and artists, and explore historically cultural contemporary issues affecting US Latina/o communities. Some topics are politics, folklore, language, race, class, gender, and sexuality. Max Credit: 3 Cross Listed: AMST 2155
A study of the Bible as a body of literary expression with an introduction to critical technique appropriate to such study. Max Credit: 3
An introduction to both Arthurian romance and writing about literature. Traces the Arthurian Legend from its roots in Welsh mythology through its development in the Middle Ages and to its current manifestations in popular culture. Max Credit: 3
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Discusses literary reflections of Chicanoism. Studies literature of the Hispanic Southwest, Mexican-American folklore and the contemporary Chicano movement. Max Credit: 3
This course examines scholarship on blues music (the first form of African American popular music) as well as literature that employs blues themes. Specific attention is given to the discourse of authenticity. Max Credit: 3 Cross Listed: AMST 2380
A course composed of blues history, studies of specific African American artists, labels, blues revivals, blues and Black feminism, authenticity, and the adaptation of blues to various literary and film texts. Max Credit: 3 Cross Listed: AMST 2370
This course traces the emergence of major pedagogical traditions in rhetoric & writing studies. Students will develop an appreciation for the diverse intellectual traditions the larger fie embraces, & will understand how the identities, activities, and approaches of rhetoric & writing studies scholars have changed over time & been influenced by broader cultural contexts. Max Credit: 3
Surveys major figures and literary movements in literatures written in English through 1750. Max Credit: 3
Surveys major figures and literary movements in literatures written in English 1750-1865. Max Credit: 3
Surveys major figures and literary movements in literatures written in English 1865-present. Max Credit: 3
Take three of the following five courses: Credits / Expanding the Canon - 6 credit hours Credits / Units: 6
Presents a variety of topics in literature. Max Credit: 6
Electives -
Composition Pedagogy, and Professional
or ENR 3750 - Natural Resource Planning and
Encompasses reading and analysis of major works representative of significant periods or literary forms in the history of literature. Max Credit: (Max. 6)
This course focuses on the language, literature, history, and culture of England between 800 and 1485, including influential texts from continental and Arabic traditions. Students will be taught to read Middle English and the class will include a translation component. Max Credit: (Max. 12)
Surveys important authors and texts from Britain, Europe, and the "new world" from 1500-1642. Covers major literary movements and genres, and contextualizes materials by discussing the historical, cultural, and political developments o the period. Examines how literature is produced and consumed in the sixteenth century. Specific focus varies by section. Max Credit: (Max. 12)
Examines central themes in literary works with philosophical significance; studies related general issues. Issues include questions of interpretation, criticism, and translation, as well as the possibility of direct philosophical influence on authors. Max Credit: (Max. 6)
Literature 3. Scientific, Historical and Social Analysis
Surveys important authors and texts from Britain, the U.S., and around the world from 1900 to present-day. Covers major literary movements and genres, including modernism and postmodernism, and contextualizes materials by discussing the historical, cultural, and political developments of the period. Examines how literature is produced in our contemporary moment. o Max Credit: (Max. 12)
Examines literature written by women in non-western cultures. The geographical region, time period, and genres of literature may vary by semester. Analyzes representations of such topics as family, marriage, sexuality, community, and colonialism as expressed in fiction, drama, literary non-fiction, and/or poetry. Max Credit: 3
Explores how men and women are imaged differently, studying the influence of representation on gender (including representations in literature, film, art, popular culture, and/or performance). Sharpens students' ability to analyze texts and images and investigate those texts' messages about gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and class. Max Credit: 3
Professions Spring Year 3 Fall Year 3 PN - - Physical and Natural World (1) (U5PN) COMP 2000 - Computing and Society Fall Year Fall Year 3 3 COMP 2000 - Computing and Society Fall Year COMP 4000 - Practicum I Spring Year 4 UW Total: 60 Credits 3 Grand Total: 125 Credits COMP 4000 - Practicum I Spring Year 4 SDEV 2030 - Data Structures Spring Year 3 UW Total: 60 Credits Grand Total: 125 Credits SDEV 3000 - Introduction to Software Design
Theory and practice of editing in the contexts of book, magazine, newspaper, and web-based publications. Standard editing practices for using grammar, proofreading marks, and computer editing tools. Max Credit: 3
Capstone -
Students write a variety of articles that would be appropriate for submission to a magazine. Feedback is given through class workshops and consultation with the instructor. Award-winning articles are read and discusses. The business aspect of magazine writing is also covered. Max Credit: 3
d This class will guide us through the ways in which popular culture shapes the way that we view ourselves and other, and gives us a vocabulary to describe this phenomenon, critique it, and even push back against it. Max Credit: 3
An investigation into how rhetorical theory, spanning from its ancient roots in Aristotelian thinking to its current postmodern components, operates in society. Explores how various critical methods can be utilized to gain a stronger understanding of public communication texts, including newspapers, speeches, music, and film. Max Credit: 3
Study of rhetoric through Black lives and experiences, from enslavement and Civil Rights to #Black Lives Matter. What does understanding Black American experiences mean for civil rights movements across the world and the U.S.? Explores how Black American speech challenges inequities in the United States and strives for racial equality and justice. Max Credit: 3 Prerequisite:
Focuses on learning about social justice issues and how injustice from the past, as well as previous social movements, influence our current lives. Analyzes language of social justice over time. Studies how marginalization, disenfranchisement, and erasure inform the rhetorics and movements of social justice. Students put theoretical concepts of social justice into real-world practice. Max Credit: 3 Prerequisite:
Explores media from the perspective of disenfranchised groups. Analyzes the role of media, both past and present, as well as how mediated and narrative framing shapes cultural attitudes, values, and beliefs. This class counts as a rhetoric & composition elective for ENGL majors. Max Credit: 3
Offers an intensive examination of representative films by selected film makers. Max Credit: (Max. 6)
Designed for students interested in working in the non-profit sector. Explores rhetorical, political, and social dimensions of writing and communicating in the non-profit world and features intensive study of special topics and problems related to non- profit communication, including activism, grant writing, organizational rhetoric, and non-profit genres. Content varies. Max Credit: 3
Offers structural, film historical, and political analyses of selected major film genres. Max Credit: (Max. 6)
Movies use religion to convey messages; they debate religious issues and use religion to debate non-religious issues. This course analyzes how film makers use religion and religious themes to transform religions into advocates for social issues and to shape religion's role in society. Popular films drawn from many genres. Max Credit: 3
Reading and discussion of major plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, together with examination of the performance and social context of Greek drama, its use of traditional myths, and selected issues in contemporary scholarship on the tragedies. Max Credit: 3
Reading and discussion of major works of Greek and Latin epic poetry, centered on Homer and Vergil. Also includes consideration of the background of these works (both mythological and historical) and the development of the epic tradition in the ancient world. Max Credit: 3
Considers aesthetic dimension and cultural matrix of novels written by Black Americans. Max Credit: 3
Students engage in an in-depth study of the literary voices tha emerged from the history of enslavement in the Americas from colonial times through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Advanced critical study of the history of American Indian literature, emphasizing the authors' views of social change. Max Credit: 3
Provides a survey of the origins, development and contemporary folklore of the Mexican American Chicano people of the United States with comparative relation to Mexico and other groups in the United States. Max Credit: 3
Presents from semester to semester a variety of significant topics in American, English, or other literatures. Max Credit: (Max. 12)
(TOPIC) Max Credit: (Max. 6)
Involves independent study and research experience in given topic, person, movement in literature. Max Credit: 3
Directed study under the supervision of an English honors thesis chairperson. Results in production of an English honors thesis. Maximum of three credits of ENGL 4630 can be applied to the degree. Max Credit: (Max. 3)
Satisfactory completion of this course indicates that English Departmental Honors have been conferred on the student. Credits: 0 Max Credit: 0 Prerequisite: successful completion and defense of English Honors thesis.
Considers major sources of change in the English language historically, as well as some of the internal and external catalysts for the process. Identical to ANTH 4780. Max Credit: 3
and Social Context Introduces prospective teachers of English as second language to the basic components of language and to the social aspects of human language use. Explores a variety of concepts about language: how it is used and perceived, how languages change, how diverse cultures respond to such changes. Max Credit: 3
Art, Literature, and Culture 175
Students work 6-8 hours per week as "writing interns" for a private business or public agency, performing specific writing/editing tasks for that client. Students are supported and enabled through a series of classroom sessions and individual meetings with the course instructor. Formal progress reports and a comprehensive final report are required. Max Credit: 3
University Studies 2003
Total hours degree with CW concentration: 36 English, B.A. -Literary Studies Concentration This concentration balances the study of literary theory and methods with thorough coursework in literature across periods, cultures, traditions, and genres. Students read closely, discu texts, and analyze language across print, media, film, and culture, writing for academic and public audiences. Gateway to the English Major - 3 credit hours Historical Period -
Provides an opportunity for specialized seminar approaches to subjects in literature. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
History, Theory, Practice taken in the first semester teaching 1010, 3-4 credits (can be waived if a student has taken a comparable graduatelevel course in a prior program) Other electives: free to be taken in any UW program or department across campus Thesis Hours (5960): 4 credit hours Taken in the first semester teaching 1010 / --4
Public Writing (3 credits; choose one)
Intensive introduction to public-facing writing in English subject areas, including articles, book reviews, think pieces, TED talks, podcasts, and other genres of commentary associated with public intellectual work in English studies. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Exploration of the structure and use of narrative, stories, and/or storytelling from a variety of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives. Considers how narrative materials function as foundational to meaning making and to community building. Max Credit: 8
An investigation into how rhetorical theory, spanning from its ancient roots in Aristotelian thinking to its current postmodern components, operates in society. Explores how various critical methods can be utilized to gain a stronger understanding of public communication texts, including newspapers, speeches, music, and film. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Investigates contemporary problems in composition and rhetorical studies, as they are played our through ancient texts on composing and rhetoric. Course will focus on how ancient texts are enlisted in current debates/concerns over pedagogy, 1061
Analysis of influential women speakers and writers over time. Course focuses on how feminists construct arguments, frame objexts of analysis, energize social justice movements, and theorize sex/gender/sexuality in relation to race, class, democracy, and suffrage. Course may include special focus on Wyoming women and suffrage. Max Credit: 8
Dissertation Research (At least
Focuses on learning about social justice issues and how injustice from the past, as well as previous social movements, influence our current lives. Analyzes language of social justice over time. Studies how marginalization, disenfranchisement, and erasure inform the rhetorics and movements of social justice. Students put theoretical concepts of social justice into real-world practice. Max Credit: 3
Explores media (film, newspaper, radio, television, and social) from the perspective of marginalized and disenfranchised groups. Analyzes the role of media, both past and present, in the framing of groups left out of the center, as well as how such mediated framing shapes cultural attitudes, values, beliefs. Max Credit: 4
Advanced introduction to qualitative research methods in English and Rhetoric. Students will survey different types of qualitative methods and will learn to evaluate qualitative projects. Includes an emphasis on working with human participants and on ethics. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Seminar course on one or more topics in technical communication research, theory, or industry practice. Topics may include user experience methods, women in technical communication, activity theory, ethics and technology, information design, narrative practices, workplace cultures, and technical communication and social justice. Max Credit: 8
Seminar focusing on communication in the public sphere. Considers definition of public(s), both terrestrial and online, and the forming of publics and counter-publics. Focuses on rhetorical needs of audiences and may include primary research or partnering with local organizations. Max Credit: 8
Non-profit writing from a rhetorical perspective. Students analyze different kinds of non-profit communication, including fundraising, mission development, social media. Participate in grant proposal development or other organizational communication activity. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
The graduate apprenticeship furthers a graduate student's professional development by allowing him/her to teach in a course other than Freshman Composition and to engage in a 1062
A seminar course in selected genres, figures, and themes in Medieval English literature. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
To provide advanced students with the opportunity to study problems of text, sources, staging, theatrical history, and/or critical theory with reference to the works of William Shakespeare. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
A seminar in selected genres, figures, and themes of restoration and eighteenth century English literature. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
A seminar in selected genres, figures, and themes of the romantic and Victorian periods. Max Credit: (Max. 4)
A seminar in significant writers of poetry, drama, fiction, and biography from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Seminar designed to acquaint graduate students with selected texts from the colonial period to 1800, relevant secondary works, and scholarly methods. Max Credit: 4
Examines significant texts, authors, cultural and historical contexts, and literary and theoretical movements in postcolonial or global literatures. May involve comparative study or may be focused on a single country context. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Advanced investigation of the spread of English as the lingua franca for business, technology, research, education, and popular culture around the world. Does the spread create cross- cultural communication or intensify global economic inequality? This course explores global Englishes in their historical and present contexts, engaging the fields of linguistics, sociolinguistics, postcolonial studies, and English language teaching. Max Credit: 8
A study of literature and culture of selected minority or marginalized communities. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Students engage in an in-depth study of the literary voices that emerged from the history of enslavement in the Americas from colonial times through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Enlightenment and 19th Century Historical survey of the mainstream of European literary criticism, including the critics of antiquity and the Renaissance. Max Credit: 4
Study of the explanatory and analytical tools for understanding the historical and political underpinnings of culture, language, and literature. Topic and application varies by semester and instructor Max Credit: (Max. 4)
Introductory graduate seminar on research methods in writing studies. Course culminates in an individual research project of professional quality. Course studies books and articles that students identify as particularly powerful examples in order to understand what research is and ways to conduct such research efficiently and ethically. Max Credit: 8
Art, Literature, and Culture An interdisciplinary approach to the study of women's issues in art, using literary, cultural, and sociological texts to enlarge th art historical basis. Topics include "domestic goddess," class issues, racial questions, working women, prostitution, education, marriage, and divorce. Max Credit: 3
Seminar introduction to the field of writing program administration. Recognizing that not all universities are research institutions with large numbers of graduate students, this course approaches administration broadly, considering not only the traditional WPA, but other types of WPA work, including research, program building, developing intra- institutional relationships, and more. Max Credit: 8
A study of modern fiction, examining theory and practice, and covering works of English, European, and American origin. Max Credit: 4
An interdisciplinary seminar in which students analyze and apply theories and methodologies from multiple disciplines to the study of selected texts, figures, media, and themes of popular culture. Max Credit: 8
An interdisciplinary investigation of the ways in which cultural venues curate and market stories, history, and texts. Analyzes and applies theories and methodologies from literary and cultural tourism studies, as well as marketing and consumer culture, to museums, performances, tourist sites and theme parks. This class will include hands-on field research. Max Credit: (Max. 8)
Work in classroom with a major professor. Expected to give some lectures and gain classroom experience. Max Credit: (Max. 4)
Graduate standing or consent of instructor. One credit hour for fee purposes. Max Credit: 1
e Campus Max Credit: (Max. 16)
Campus Max Credit: (Max. 16)
Designed to provide an enrichment experience in a variety of topics. Max Credit: (Max. 99)
Designed for students who are involved in research for their thesis project. Also used for students whose coursework is complete and are writing their thesis. Max Credit: (Max. 24)
Taken third semester in classroom.
Taken fourth semester in classroom. /
Independent study and research experience in a given topic Max Credit: 3
Designed for students who are involved in research for their comprehension, oral grammar practice and building vocabulary. dissertation project. Also used for students whose coursework is complete and are writing their dissertation.
Through ESL learner targeted instruction, practices, and Credit: (Max. 24) Prerequisite: feedback, the course will emphasize and progressively develop graduate standing. transferrable skills for students' academic work and future English as a Second Language ESL 1110 - professions. It will continue to build on writing skills and Introduction to Academic Writing Skills emphasize foundational oral and digital communication skills. Designed to introduce non-native speakers of English, who do Credits: 3 Max Credit: 3 Prerequisite: not demonstrate the required competency in writing to enter WA/COM1. ESL 1210 , to academic writing skills. Includes instruction in grammar and sentence structure, paragraph and essay writing. USP 2003-2014 Code: U3WB USP 2015 Code: Credits: 3 Max Credit: 3 Prerequisite: U5C3 TOEFL of 18 or lower; IELTS of 5 or lower. ESL 4010 - Technical Writing for International Former Course Number: [AS 1110] Students Prepares students from a culturally diverse background for the
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