WRDS 360 Knowledge popularization: Research Writing in New Media
Rhetorical purposes, moves and features of new media genres that use or transform research for public audiences. Provides opportunities for students to analyze, critically assess, and produce these genres themselves.
WRDS 350 Knowledge-Making in the Disciplines
An advanced scholarly research and writing course that allows students to build on their existing knowledge of academic research and writing practices by studying specific features of scholarly writing relevant to their own interests and disciplines. Students in the Faculty of Arts can take WRDS 350 to satisfy the writing component of the Writing and Research Requirement in the Faculty of Arts.
WRDS 250 Evaluating Knowledge Production and Mobilization
Critical and practical questions about how discourse communities construct and mobilize knowledge. The evaluation of knowledge as information/misinformation. How the evaluation of information is shaped by discursive contexts, rhetorical goals, and communication forms.
WRDS 200 Writing and Communication Foundations
Key principles of writing and communication and issues currently debated in the field of Writing Studies. The role of writing and communication in making knowledge, constructing identity, and exercising power.
WRDS 150 Writing and Research in the Disciplines
Writing and reading in disciplines across the academy, focusing on practices that research disciplines share and those that differentiate them.
Students studying outside of the Faculty of Arts at UBC can take WRDS 150 in order to meet three credits of the communication requirement for their faculties.
WRDS 151 Writing and Research in the Disciplines
Writing and reading in disciplines across the academy, focusing on practices that research disciplines share and those that differentiate them. Students in the Faculty of Arts can take WRDS 151 in order to meet the Writing Requirement in the Faculty of Arts.