This course offers an introduction to and preparation for careers in the teaching of writing, professional writing, publishing, and editing.

This course introduces visual rhetoric, covering its history, current practice, and possible futures. Utilizing the disciplinary tools of rhetoric, students will compose in textual and visual modes, learning a variety of methods with which to create and critique visuals.

Instruction and practice with the major genres and argumentative structures of writing in the natural sciences. Special emphasis on and practice with the written norms that shape disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences.

Instruction and practice with the major genres and argumentative structures of writing in the natural sciences. Special emphasis on and practice with the written norms that shape disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences.

Instruction and practice with the major genres and argumentative structures of writing in the natural sciences. Special emphasis on and practice with the written norms that shape disciplinary knowledge in the natural sciences.

This course is dedicated to critical examination of approaches to the documentary, and the construction of a documentary of one's own. Students will examine different strategies, structures, and topics, with an eye to production.

This course introduces students to the scholarly study of rhetoric by exploring the interrelationship of theory, criticism, and practice within a particular historical context.

This course examines theories of rhetorical argument. Students read rhetorical theorists who speculate about what makes certain speech persuasive, as well as contemporary rhetoricians who are actually creating persuasive written and oral texts. Students use these theories to analyze and construct original arguments. Subtitle focus announced the preceding semester. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of six credits.

An undergraduate seminar that prepares qualified undergraduate students to become engaged and effective peer consultants in the UK Writing Center. Students in the course are actively involved in reading, writing, listening, observing, speaking, researching, and presenting as they become immersed in the theory and practice of Writing Center consulting.

This course introduces students to algorithms, natural language processing models, and large language models that have shaped (and continue to shape) communication with generative artificial intelligence programs (AI). The course draws from theories of rhetoric to explore ways in which AI may be used to complement writing in a variety of genres and in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on the ethical implications of using AI in writing and creative expression.