PWR 1AH:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of American Multicultural Experience
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of multicultural experience and cultural assimilation, focusing on the theme of social acceptance. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1AT:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: A Mountain for Itself: The Rhetoric of nWilderness
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1CA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Gaming
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include how gameplay in a variety of genres operates as argument about cultural values and how games function as sites of community building, social networking, and learning. Students produce research-based arguments on these issues and merge practice and production in storyboarding rhetorically persuasive games. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1CR:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Writing Nature: Discourses in Ecology, Culture, and Technology
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Inquiry into human relationships with nature and how these influence ethical choices and social justice. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1D:
Writing Well: An Introduction to College Writing
Offered only to participants in the Summer College for High School Students. Develops critical reading, writing, and research skills applicable to any area of study. Emphases include close reading, analysis of varied texts, development of strong theses, revision strategies, and introduction to research-based argument. Classes are small, encouraging extensive interaction between students and instructors. Discussions of readings, peer work, and individual conferences with instructors. Each section has a thematic emphasis developed by the instructor; students choose sections based on their individual interests. Does not meet the Stanford first-year writing requirement.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
PWR 1DH:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Virtue of Vice and the Vice of Virtue: The Rhetoric of Criminality
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Students investigate language and images that construct criminals, analyzing how these representations shape personal and cultural beliefs. Analysis of the costs and benefits of retributive, restorative, and transformative justice systems. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1DW:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Gangsters, Glamour Girls & Gold-diggers: Dialectic of Am. Culture & Hollywoo
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of the rhetoric of American film and its conversation with American culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GAJ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Eating
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GAT:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Size Matters: The Writing and Rhetoric of Short Stories
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GAW:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Global Exchange: Rhetoric in a World Context
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. The American cultural apparatus, its limitations, and development of other world views. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GBJ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Cultural Memories of Violence
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GBW:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Deathbeds: Art and the Rhetoric of Disease
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GCZ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: "It Never Got Weird Enough For Me": The Rhetoric of Intoxication
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GHJ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of The Economist
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of the strategies that produce The Economist magazine¿s rhetorically effective yet anonymous voice. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GIF:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Dark Humor: A Rhetoric of Social Taboos
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Study of dark humor as it deals with the most delicate subject matter, topics we designate as sacred and beyond criticism: violence and bodily damage, illness, aging and death, race and ethnicity, and gender and sexuality. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GJM:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of California
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GJS:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Our Warded World: The Rhetoric of Conservation
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GJW:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: I Know It When I Hear It: The Rhetoric of the Unspeakable
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GLA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Code Orange: Post-9/11 America and the Rhetoric of Alarm
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GM:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Anywhere That Is Wild: The Making and Unmaking of Rhetoric
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of the tension between reverence and science, language and feeling, natural and unnatural in the interrelationship of rhetoric and nature. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GMR:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Fearful Symmetry: The Rhetoric of the Double
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of the fictions of the double and the philosophies of personal identity, and how both anticipate and condition contemporary responses to the twin issues of human cloning and intellectual property. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GMW:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Legal Rhetoric
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GMX:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: "Too Much Information?": The Rhetoric of Social Networking & Online Privacy
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Critical analysis of the ways in which online life intersects with real life around issues including privacy, authorship, and morality. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GNL:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Punk Rock and Rhetoric of Protest Music
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GRL:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: LGBTQAWTF: Queer Rhetorics
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GRY:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Fashionable Fables: The Rhetoric of Modern Mythology
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GSA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Proper English
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GSD:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Masters of Style - The Rhetoric of Sophistication
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Examination of how style is mastered and deployed in a range of genres. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GVC:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Circus
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1HR:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Fake News and the Rhetoric of "Truthiness"
Development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Critical analysis of the fake news phenomenon, considering its impact on the political process and how we discuss important issues of the day. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JB:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: From Mad Cow to Mad Corn: The Rhetoric of Food Science and Politics
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include how activists, nutritionists, food scientists, chemical companies, and legislative bodies articulate their concerns and argue their positions and how agribusiness and government respond to consumer concerns about food produced with the aid of chemicals. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JL:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetoric and Humanitarian Intervention
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Examination of how media representations of world crises are crafted to persuade us to action, appealing to our senses of justice, pragmatism, outrage, and compassion. See http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JP:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Consumer Culture
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Students explore what consumerism says about the larger culture and the segmented groups within it, analyzing popular and scholarly texts as well as current trends in pop culture, to research how the activities of consumerism shape culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JPA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Contemplation or Action: The Rhetoric of a Liberal Arts Education
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Engagement with debates and issues related to liberal arts education, including the tension between education as training for a career and as a venue for developing the life of the mind. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KB:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Authentic Experience: The Rhetoric of Tourism
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KBA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: On Display: The Rhetoric of Museums and Exhibition Spaces
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KD:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: World of Change? The Journalistic Essay Today
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. How various feature article writers argue the issues of soaring energy and food prices, serious market volatility, climate change, an ongoing war in the Middle East, and how terms like ¿crisis¿ or ¿change¿ impact the discussion. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KE:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Science of Sports
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include sports at the level of cells and psychology, the science of sports equipment and sports spaces, the ethics of performance enhancement, and sports-related research projects on the Stanford campus. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KM:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: If These Walls Could Talk: The Rhetoric of Places and Spaces
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Explores the ¿language¿ of man-made environments such as universities, theme parks, monuments, shopping malls, museums, and public buildings. Students analyze space through physical exploration and critical inquiry and discover the applications of rhetoric not only to traditional texts but to physical structures and spaces as well. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1LKA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetoric, Social Media, and Virtual Worlds
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of the effects of social media and how we shape our identities and develop new habits of mind when we enter virtual worlds. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1MF:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Urban Life
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1MJ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rock 'n' Rhetoric
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include rhetorical strategies and meaning of the lyrics of songs with multiple interpretations and how rock musicians construct arguments in their songs. Analysis of how surrounding cultural and historical contexts influence the significance and meaning of rock songs. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1PB:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Supreme Court Rhetoric
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of the rhetoric of Supreme Court opinions, ¿amicus curiae¿ briefs, editorials about Court opinions, and pertinent lower court decisions. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1PH:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: He Said, She Said: The Rhetoric of Gender Politics
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include the ways in which news articles, movie clips, magazine advertisements, television commercials, and other texts present gender roles, and how the roles and bodies of both sexes are presented as objects open to scrutiny, critique, exploitation, abuse, and awe. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1RT:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The War Between Wars: the "isms" of modernism
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of the rhetoric of modernism in art, literature, and thought between the two world wars. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SB:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Machine Dreams: The Rhetoric of Technology
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include the arguments we make about technology, the arguments various technologies produce about us, and the ways in which rhetoric itself might be productively viewed as a technology for producing arguments. Students explore the social, economic, political, and psychological consequences of rapidly developing technologies. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SLA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: "Advertising R Us": The Rhetoric of Advertising
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SSA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Real and Imagined Lives: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Identity
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of the rhetoric of identity as constructed in a range of narrative forms including fiction, memoirs, political campaigns, and social media. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SUA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Such a Long Journey: South Asian Diaspora in the World
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1WG:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Reading Minds: The Rhetoric of Consciousness
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Examination of states of mind ranging from the radical self-possession cultivated through practice to altered states induced through drugs and trauma, illness, and religion. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 2AH:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Ethnic Narratives and the Rhetoric of American Identity
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration of how race and ethnicity in America have become subjects of personal negotiations and public perception. Addresses various topics such as biracial and bicultural identity, acculturation, and stereotyping. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2AO:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric and Global Leadership
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Analysis of styles of leadership across the globe and communication strategies used to bring about change. Exploration of how global leaders learn cross-cultural rhetoric skills to adapt to dynamic and unfamiliar situations. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2CA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Networked Rhetoric: Social Networks, Participatory Media and the Future of Wr
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration of the issues surrounding participatory media and social networking in contemporary digital culture from the perspective of both theory and practice. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2CR:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Revolutions in Environmental Rhetoric
Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Examination of the motivations and appeals of environmental arguments, considering underlying assumptions and contexts of time, culture, audience, purpose, and mode of delivery. Participation in Community Writing Project, working with local nonprofit environmental organizations to produce real-world writing, multimedia, and/or speaking projects on these organizations' behalf. Work in the community will form the basis of the major research project. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). Prerequisite: PWR 1. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2DC:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Popular Science of Sex
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration of the intersection between social debate and scientific research about sex and gender; how social debates draw on, represent, respond to, and influence scientific studies; and how the process shapes our knowledge and beliefs about sex and gender. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2DH:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Me and My iPod: The Rhetoric of Identity
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Study of the message, performance, and construction of identity, electronic renditions of the self, and the constant or changing nature of identity. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2DHA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Scholar Activists Fix the World? The Rhetoric of Scholarship and Activism
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2GAW:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Cross-Cultural Communication
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of how rhetoric functions in various cultures, considering body language, symbols, visual media, and the Internet. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2GM:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Unpredictable Dialogue: Art of the Essay, Art of the Interview
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Study of the rhetorical craft of the interview, exploring structure, language, timing, and development in a range of forums, including documentaries, radio, transcription, campus conversations, and television. Research of a Stanford professor's work, including interview. Presentation of findings from research and interview to the class. See http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2HR:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: What's So Funny? Humor, Race, Class and Gender
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Analysis of cartoons and jokes about and by feminists, LGBTs, ethnic minorities, and rednecks. Discussion of how jokes reflect important moral values about race, sex, gender, and religion. Exploration of how satire works as social criticism. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2JB:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric of Ethics in Research and Technology
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Study of the rhetoric of ethical discourse, including the ethical standards guiding research at Stanford and examples of ethical misconduct. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2JH:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Cred: Rhetoric and Credibility in Research, Politics, and Everyday Life
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Work on making students more effective researchers and communicators in their areas of interest, with a focus on gaining and projecting credibility. Exploration of how speakers and writers gain and lose credibility, how people evaluate the credibility of others, and how the rules of credibility are different in politics, in scholarship, and in popular culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2JL:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Doomsday Rhetoric
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Investigation of how the doomsday epic expresses real concerns emerging from fields like technology, environmental studies, pathobiology, and politics. Consideration of apocalypticism as a mode of argument. Examination of how belief in the imminent destruction of the present world order influences our political decisions and personal behavior. Topics in religious eschatology and apocalypticism illuminate the genre¿s origins. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2JLA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Speaking About Art: Narrating the Collections of the Cantor Art Center
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration and theory of successful strategies of oral communication, considering how words and images (in this case works of art) work together to create meaning, culminating in creation of an audio guide for the Cantor Arts Center. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2JLB:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric and Education Reform
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Analysis of social, ideological, and pedagogical perspectives on education reform. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2JM:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Criminal Matters: Evidence, Detection, Expertise
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. . See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2JP:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Marketing Imagination: The Rhetoric of Creativity and Commerce
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Examination of unspoken rules regarding the separation of creativity and commerce and arguments about how consumer culture influences the work of the artist. See http://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KD:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Performing Writing: Drama and the New Media
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration of how the application of performance techniques makes academic or professional presentations more compelling. Scripting and delivering of group research projects. Research in new forms of media, analysis of how the conventions of a particular medium affect the content of the message. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KE:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Olympic Rhetoric: Studying the Spirit of the Games
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Analysis of Olympic media, looking specifically at race and gender in Olympic coverage; technological innovation and ethics in the Games; and Olympic history. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KEA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2:Competitive Women: Opportunity, Exposure, and Resistance in the World of Sports
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Examination of women in sports, looking specifically at issues of opportunity, exposure, and resistance; arguments made by, for, and against women playing sports; and the fight for equality in sports. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KEB:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Sports Appeal: Packaging and Promoting Stanford Athletics
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. ¿. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KM:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: A Planet on Edge: The Rhetoric of Sustainable Energy
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Focus on the rhetoric and ethics of ¿sustainable energy,¿ investigating both the alarmism and optimism which fuel this debate. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KMA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Natural Enemies: The Rhetoric of Invasion Biology
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Study of the use of metaphors and argument in the context of invasion biology and species conservation, especially the effects those metaphors and claims have on practice and policy outcomes. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KS:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Happy Now? The Anatomy of Happiness
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. How the emerging field of happiness studies involves psychologists, economists and policy-makers in defining what happiness is and determining how society might create the conditions in which it can flourish. Exploration of how happiness studies can uncover happiness at the heart of arguments about democracy, religion, and personal lifestyles, exploring what makes people happy across cultural, social, and national contexts. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2KSA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Childhood and Children's Culture
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2LK:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric in Crisis!
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. ¿. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2MF:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Speaking About Art: Narrating the Cantor's Collections
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Study of strategies for developing museum audio guides, including analysis of existing guides and behind-the-scenes work in the Cantor Arts Center. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2MFA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Searching for San Jose: Urban Studies Audio Walking Tours
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. ¿. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2MR:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Technology and the Demonic: Rhetoric Against the Machine
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. . See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2PB:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Power of Political Photography
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Topics include the role of photographers and photo-journalists in helping viewers see the world differently and the political implications of fashion photography, environmental photography, music photography, and fashion photography. Traditional readings as well as archival and field research. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2PH:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Equal Treatment: The Rhetoric of Public Health
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Study of how public health discourses influence policymaking, practitioners, and community members, how the public understands the rhetoric of public health, and how that understanding affects public and government support of health-related research. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2PHA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: You Go Girl: The Rhetoric of Gender Equality
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. ¿. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2RT:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Stepping Out of the Shadows: Music, Bass Guitar, and the Rhetoric of Revoluti
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Analysis of how the emergence of the electric bass in the fifties helped usher in a revolution that challenged commonplace assumptions concerning nationality, race, gender, and sexuality. Exploration of the history of the electric bass as a case study of musical revolutions, focusing on how music revolutions reflect emerging ideologies in any given culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2RTA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Postmodernism and the Rhetoric of Uncertainty
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Inquiry into major theories of the postmodern and analysis of postmodernism's effect on culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2SB:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Writing the Future: The Rhetoric of Popular Science and Science Fiction
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Analysis of science fiction and popular writing about science and technology as arguments about where we are headed, where we are, who we are, and what we value. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2SH:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Ugly American: Tourism and the Rhetoric of Power
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Analysis of the Ugly American in aesthetics and culture, in films and novels, tourist locations and business conferences, to illuminate America¿s complex role in the world. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2SL:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Got Ads: Visual Design in Print Advertising
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Introduction to the rhetorical interplay of visuals, text, and design layout in print advertising, and narrative, classificatory, and dynamic patterns in print advertisement campaigns. Culminates in design and presentation of an original ad campaign. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2SM:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Dirty, Pretty Things: The Rhetoric of Objects and Objectification
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Study of objects and objectification, from the relationships shared by cultures, objects, and people to how human beings have been objectified through colonialism, enslavement, sex-trafficking, and organ trade. Material objects discussed in terms of staging, collecting, design, location, inheritance, and cultural meaning. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2SS:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Mass Audiences
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration of how the ability to reproduce a work for increasingly large audiences has fundamentally changed the nature of art and its effect on culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2SU:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Hollywood Bollywood: Rhetoric of India in Global Cinema
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration of how the rhetoric of India is constructed for an international audience through films and how such representations have coincided with India¿s recent economic success to give rise to a new trend in global popular culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2SW:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of World War II: Strategies of Persuasion in War Time
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Through work with the Hoover Archives, exploration of how written, visual, and film sources were used by a variety of countries to influence their citizens during WWII. Topics include the rhetoric of eugenics, political speeches, war posters, and how advertising during WWII pursued clear agendas to support government goals. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 2WG:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: All That Jazz: The Rhetoric of American Musical Theater
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. Exploration of the conventions and strategies that define the genre of American musical theater. Analysis of how contemporary musicals mirror, revise, and even subvert traditional rules while addressing a range of current issues. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 2
PWR 4:
Directed Writing
Further work on developing writing. Analysis and research-based argument, writing for a range of audiences and in varied disciplinary contexts. Workshops and individual conferences. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit.
Last offered: Spring 2007
| Units: 3-4
| Repeatable
for credit
PWR 5:
Independent Writing
Individual writing project under the guidance of a PWR instructor. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-2
PWR 1AO:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Visual Rhetoric Across the Globe: Capturing Culture in Images
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of styles of leadership across the globe and communication strategies used to bring about change. Exploration of how global leaders learn cross-cultural rhetoric skills to adapt to dynamic and unfamiliar situations. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1DC:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Is This What a Feminist Looks Like? Race/Gender in the Obama Age
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Study of the coverage of and activism in a post-racial U.S., including evaluation of the debate over the intersections of racial activism and feminist activism in U.S. politics. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JH:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: Rhetoric and Deception
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Study of untruth, misrepresentation, and deception in journalistic and scientific rhetoric. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JT:
PWR 1: RHETORIC HEALTH CARE
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KS:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Imagining Others: 21st Century Cosmopolitanism
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of cosmopolitanism, questions related to globalization, nationalism, citizenship, cultural values, aesthetics, and identity. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1LK:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric and Politics of Satire
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Explores the ways that satirists use irony, exaggeration, and humor--among other rhetorical techniques--to make serious statements about the world. Juxtaposes historical and recent satirical writing to illuminate intellectual problems that are thousands of years old and sharply contemporary. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SH:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Strange Art, Stranger Politics: Absurdism and the Rhetoric of Social Action
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include the benefits and drawbacks of deploying strange art as artistic and political protest, how breaking the aesthetic rules sometimes serves to argue for social change, and how absurdist protests succeed or fail to gain social traction. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SL:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: New Media Rhetoric and Web 2.0
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Students define new media and debate the ideas of web 2.0; the virtue of Web 2.0 in digital game modifications and the potential subversive effects of web 2.0 on advertising restrictions; and look into the possibilities and limitations of democracy 2.0. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SM:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cellphone: Rhetoric of India and Indian Film
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Study of the rhetoric of the India of the new millennium, including issues of gender, caste, class, religion, sexuality, nationalism, diaspora, outsourcing, and globalization. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center). See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SS:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Soap Operas and Soapboxes: The Rhetoric of Performance
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Students explore identity as a social, political, and cultural performance; how different situations call for particular styles of rhetorical performance; and how people evaluate and analyze different types of performances, including artistic and political performances, as well as the performances of everyday life. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SU:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The World According to Bollywood: Indian Cinema and its Representations
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of representations of India¿s culture through Indian film and how such representations have coincided with India¿s economic success overthe last two decades of the twentieth century, giving rise to a new trend in global popular culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SW:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Scandals, Private Lives, and Public Faces: The Rhetoric of Stanford
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Study of the early history and rhetoric of the ¿public face¿ of Stanford University, from the post-Gold Rush and Big Four railroad era to the building of the University See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 91:
Intermediate Writing: The Art of the Sports Narrative
For students who have completed the first two levels of the writing requirement and want further work in developing writing abilities, especially within discipline-specific contexts and nonfiction genres. Individual conferences with instructor and peer workshops. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| Repeatable
4 times
(up to 12 units total)
PWR 191:
Advanced Writing
Open to undergraduates and graduate students. Crafting nonfiction prose in a range of genres. Focus is on the relationship of genre and form; attention to developing stylistic versatility. Individual conferences with instructor. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit.
Last offered: Spring 2006
| Units: 3
PWR 192:
Projects in Research, Writing, and Rhetoric
Advanced work on research projects, early drafts of theses, proposals. Shared work, discussions, and examination of methods, rhetorics, and styles in all disciplines. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit.
Last offered: Autumn 2009
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
PWR 193:
Writing the Honors Thesis
For students from all majors in the process of writing an honors thesis. Review of key elements of thesis process, including literature reviews, structure, argumentation, style, and documentation. Group and individual workshops. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit.
Last offered: Spring 2010
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
PWR 194:
Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Law and the Rhetorical Tradition
(Same as LAW 304.) Interdisciplinary seminar. The rhetorical underpinnings of legal argument. Goal is understanding rhetoric as readers and interpreters of legal texts and to develop skills as writers and speakers. Prerequisite: first two levels of the writing requirement or equivalent transfer credit.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 12 units total)
PWR 195:
Writing Center Peer Tutor Seminar (ENGLISH 195W)
For students selected to serve as peer writing tutors in the Stanford Writing Center and/or at other campus sites. Readings on and reflection about writing processes, the dynamics of writing and tutoring situations, tutoring techniques, learning styles, diversity, and ethics. Observation of tutoring sessions, written responses to readings, and other written work.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
PWR 1DCA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Tell Me a Story: Rhetoric of Narrative & Knowledge from fMRIs to Fiction
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Inquiry into the nature of storytelling and its uses in the work of biologists, lawyers, philosophers, and historians. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GAC:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Protest Art!: The Rhetoric of Art as Social Activism
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of the rhetoric of art in drawing our attention to social issues such as racism, poverty, sexism, and homophobia and in moving us to social action. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GAF:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Little Boxes: The Rhetoric of the American Suburb
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Examination of the suburbs as a site of cultural debate through investigation of the ways that authors and artists imagine the physical landscape of the suburb and the inner lives of suburbanites. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GAZ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: From Cradle to Grave: The Rhetoric of Age and Aging
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include the history of aging in America; developments in reproductive science; the proverbial mid-life crisis; and how people cope with the ultimate horizon of death. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GCJ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: El Otro Lado / The Other Side: The rhetoric of real and imagined borders
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. The physical border between the United States and Mexico is the focus of the examination of the artistic, scholarly, and political rhetoric of real and imagined borders. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GCX:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: "I Do": The Rhetoric of Consent
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Examination of the idea of consent and the underlying principles of free will and autonomy in the fields of law, intellectual property, marriage contracts, political philosophy, medical ethics, and sex. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GDM:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Whose Streets? Our Streets!: The Rhetoric of Protest
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. History of protest and analysis of protest as a rhetorical device meant to draw attention to injustice. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GER:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Social Media
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of the multifaceted and hypertextual rhetoric of social media, the intersection between rhetoric and social media, and how new types of online media have heightened participation, openness, and a sense of community. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GGH:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Understanding American Political Speeches of the 20th and 21st Centuries
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Rhetorical analyses of speeches by a range of 20th-century American political figures and the political rhetoric of the present day. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GJE:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Gay Ghettoes, Queer Hoods: The Rhetoric of Race and Urban Sexual Subcultures
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Study of the rhetoric of urban sexual subcultures, and how the rhetoric in medical science, journalism, and popular entertainment defines queers of color in intellectual thought and pop culture. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GLD:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Cyborg Body: The Rhetoric of Disability
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of ¿disability,¿ using the analogy of the cyborg, in an era when the human body has become plastic, digitized and surgically manipulated. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GLL:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Wow, that's so postcard: The Rhetoric of Tourism
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of tourism as a way of seeing and representing the rest of the world and oneself, touching on some of the most pressing political, economic, and cultural questions facing an increasingly globalized world. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GMV:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Don't Take it Personally!: The Rhetoric of The Insult
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of how insults function rhetorically in specific situations and how they have catalyzed prolonged confrontations around race, education, politics, sexual orientation, and national standing. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GRA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Millions Like Us: The Rhetoric of Crowds
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Topics include symbolic meaning of rock, sports, and political events; virtual crowds online; and use of crowds to shape ideology. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GRH:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: 2012 & the Rhetoric of Apocalypse
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Analysis of the rhetoric of apocalypse as a cultural phenomenon. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GRN:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Lasting Only One Day: The Rhetoric of Ephemera and Other Discarded Things
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Exploration of ephemera and how they argue for their meaning as they collect and preserve the past while reflecting humantransience. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GTM:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Taste
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Examination of the rhetoric of taste as the luxurious product of a sophisticated society and as tedious, stultifying, snobby, or outright offensive. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1GTX:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: 'Making My Way Downtown': The Rhetoric of the City
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. Through historic, literary, journalistic, and film portrayals of city life, we will analyze the idea of 'the city' as constructed through media and in the imaginations of its residents, and the way life in cities is really lived. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JJJ:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Futility
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
PWR 1KMA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Metaphor and Motion: The Rhetoric of Sacred Space
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
PWR 1SMA:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: Humans and Things: The Rhetoric of Commodities and Commodification
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1SMB:
Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Jewel in the Crown: The Rhetoric of (Post)Colonialism
Rhetorical and contextual analysis of readings; research; and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. ¿ See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 2SSA:
Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric of Reality Culture
Prerequisite: PWR 1. Further work in developing skills in argument and research-based writing, with emphasis on both written and oral/multimedia presentation of research. ¿. See http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
| Units: 4
