printer friendly pagePWR 1BRA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Growing Up Millennial: The Rhetoric of Coming of 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. See
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Last offered: Winter 2016
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1BRB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: In Another's Shoes: The Rhetoric of Empathy
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. This class explores how empathy works as a subject of research and as a force that informs the rhetorical situation of conveying that research to others. How do our feelings about an argument affect our reaction? And how can communicators use empathy effectively and responsibly? A full course description and video can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1brb For the PWR course catalog please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Richardson, R. (PI)
PWR 1CA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Gaming
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. This course takes as its theme the rhetoric that underlies gaming culture and how the games we play help define our cultural identity and the way we approach lived experience. A full course description and video can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1ca For the PWR course catalog please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Alfano, C. (PI)
PWR 1CK: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Investigating the News: Journalism, Technology & the Future
Rhetorical analysis of readings, research, and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. For course videos and full descriptions, see
https://vcapwr-catalog.stanford.edu. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1CLA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Hate Crime: Writing on Law 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. See
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Last offered: Spring 2018
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1CLB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Writing on Campus Life
Rhetorical analysis of readings, research, and argument. Focus is on development of a substantive research-based argument using multiple sources. Individual conferences with instructor. For more information about
PWR 1, see
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1. For full course descriptions, see
https://vcapwr-catalog.stanford.edu. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Autumn 2018
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1CW: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Sporting Rhetoric: How We Talk About Sport and Why It Matters
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. This course explores how sport is changing society and will consider how we often fail to critically engage sport as one of the central cultural literacies of our time. A full course description and video can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1cw For the PWR course catalog please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Aut, Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Wright, C. (PI)
PWR 1D: Writing Academic Arguments: The Art of the Essay
Offered only to participants in the Summer College for High School Students. How can you write college-level essays that hook readers and sustain their interest over the course of a well-researched argument? In this course you'll learn how to craft good research questions, conduct ethical scholarly research, engage counterarguments, and write and revise academic essays. You will write a rhetorical analysis of a work that interests you, such as an essay, film, song, painting, etc. and develop a persuasive, research-based essay exploring a topic you feel passionate about. Does not meet the Stanford first-year writing requirement.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Ellis, E. (PI)
PWR 1DB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Collective Memory
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. This course takes as it theme memory and the version of the past presented by speakers, writers, filmmakers and journalists. For course videos and full descriptions, visit the PWR website. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Bush, D. (PI)
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://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html.
Last offered: Autumn 2019
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
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