Courses

Students will develop their academic writing accuracy and fluency. They will learn and practice the content, organization, and language for writing academic paragraphs and essays in American universities.

Students entering the program or current students will gain skills to differentiate between rhetorical situations in the workplace (identifying types of writing, formats, audience, information), write informative and persuasive documents and use correct grammar.

This creative writing course has a substantial focus on culture, place, region, and the intersectionality of identity. Students will create a final portfolio of creative work that reflects the world they live in with sensitivity, research, and insight.

An introduction to the instruction and practice in the techniques of writing essays about film. Writing assignments might include reviews, research papers, theoretical inquiries, scholarly articles, or critical analyses.

An introduction to analytic writing about games through both a media and game studies lens.

This course emphasizes clear and effective writing about music and its historical, cultural, and artistic context. It also emphasizes language proficiency, logical thinking, and research methods.

Advanced writing course exploring composition with images, sound, video, and other media while considering theoretical perspectives on rhetorical concepts such as authorship, audience, process, revision, and design. Experiential Learning, PW: Digital Literacy Pract

Introduces writers to a systematic approach to writing a journal article, including essential structures, stylistic conventions, and smart strategies for planning and completing projects under a deadline. Writers begin with their own working manuscripts (unpublished course paper, thesis, dissertation, etc.), identify a target journal, and draft short, strategic sections, based on peer review and instructor feedback, to create a final submission, per author’s guidelines.

In this course, students will explore the process of producing articles for peer-reviewed outlets such as conferences and journals. Topics include: exposure to cutting-edge methods of ideation and collaboration that can be applied to the generation of new research articles and streams; discussions with faculty regarding their experiences with the writing process; and production of an outline of a proposed first paper for the dissertation.