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: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Myers, K. (PI)
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.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Savelson, K. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Konstantinou, L. (PI)
PWR 1NB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Ain't that America?: Rhetoric and American 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. Topics include the relationship between U.S. ideology and its culture, and how American trends and popular texts comment on and shape conversations about the U.S. and its values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. See
http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Req.html.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Buffington, N. (PI)
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: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Hanlon, P. (PI)
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: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Taylor, R. (PI)
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: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Brawn, S. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Herndon, S. (PI)
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Lee, S. (PI)
PWR 1SM: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cellphone: Rhetoric of India & 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. See
http://ual.stanford.edu/AP/univ_req/PWR/Courses.html.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Mediratta, S. (PI)
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