WRDS 498 Special Topics in Writing Studies gives upper-level students the chance to explore innovative, emerging, or timely areas of research and practice in the field of Writing Studies.
General course description
While the topic of WRDS 498 will vary year-by-year, course topics will focus on issues, conversations, approaches, or skills that are on the forefront of work in the field, or that are being reimagined or revisited by experts in the field in light of current events.
WRDS 498 may also feature unique learning experiences that allow students to engage with the course topic in unconventional ways (e.g., community engaged learning; service learning; practicums) — reflecting and leveraging the course instructor’s special areas of pedagogical expertise and innovation.
All versions of WRDS 498 will involve engaging with writing and communication research and practice at an advanced level, including the analysis, critique, production, or transformation of a variety of situated writing and communication issues, practices, and texts, in a variety of modes and genres. Students can apply up to 6 credits of WRDS 498 toward their Minor in Writing and Communication.
3 credits from any one of these courses:
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- Arts One
- APSC 176
- ASTU 100
- ASTU 101
- CAP 100
- CAP 101
- CHEM 300
- COMM 196
- ENGL 100
- FRST 150
- LFS 150
- SCIE 113
- SCIE 300
- WRDS 150
- WRDS 350