PWR 1CN: Writing & Rhetoric 1: You Have My Undivided Attention...: The Rhetoric of Attention
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 the rhetoric of attention, focus, distraction, perceptual overwhelm and burnout. For full course description visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1cn. 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
PWR 1CNA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Against the Machine? Exploring Anti-tech Rhetoric
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. In this course we will draw from thinkers, writers, activists, and movements that span many disciplines and regions, including the original 19th century textile workers who claimed the name Luddites as they organized resistance to automated systems in the factories where they worked. A full course description can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1cna For the
PWR 1 course catalog please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Nagler, C. (PI)
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: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Wright, C. (PI)
PWR 1D: Writing Academic Arguments: The Art of the Essay
Offered only to high school students enrolled in Summer Sessions. 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.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1EB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Changing the Story
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 question of who gets to the "the" story. Full course description can be found here
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1eb For course videos and full descriptions of
PWR 1 courses see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1EE: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Prowling Toward Certainty: Exploration as Argument
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 ambivalence and how it often seems like a personal shortcoming that must be remedied with certainty. But what advantages can be found in the deep, risky waters of uncertainty? Can ambivalent texts move and persuade us? A full course description and video can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1ee For the PWR course catalog please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Autumn 2022
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1EH: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetoric of Resistance: Analyzing Narratives For and Against
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. This course focuses on resistance, and we'll look at texts and movements. We'll ask, what narratives, knowledges, or ideologies do you resist and why? A full course description can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1eh For the PWR course catalog with descriptions and videos please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Hille, E. (PI)
PWR 1EI: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Watch Now: Rhetorics of Film and Television
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. In this course we will explore how through the intentional use of stories, images, sound and language, our film and television industries shape and reflect back to us the impressions that we come to have of ourselves, our societies and our universe. For full course description and video see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1ei. For
PWR 1 catalog visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Pei, E. (PI)
PWR 1EP: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Global Development and Social Change
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. This class takes as its theme international development projects which have marked every sector of global society. We will unpack and interrogate the numerous discourses around international "development" as a strategy for achieving social change and look at how culture, history, politics, and economics have informed development's connections to capitalism, modernity, and most recently, globalization. For course video and full description, see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1ep For the
PWR 1 catalog visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Spring 2021
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
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