PWR 1HZ: Introduction to College Writing
What are the strategies and practices that can help you become a successful writer, no matter what your area of study? In this class, students will develop critical reading, writing, and research skills, with a special attention to college application practices, strong argumentation, rhetorical awareness, and introductory research skills. The sections are small, encouraging extensive interaction between students and instructors. Class activities will primarily be in the form of discussions, peer work, and small group activities; in addition, students will have periodic one-to-one meetings with instructors for individualized learning. This class does not meet the Stanford first-year writing requirement.
Last offered: Summer 2019
PWR 1IF: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Language and Social Identity in America
Language and social identity are closely intertwined. Have you ever noticed that you change the way you speak to present a particular social identity? For example, have you ever switched between dialects or languages to show alignment with certain social groups or mark your 'in-group' status? Because language is flexible (and somewhat controllable), it can be used as a resource to create and index identity. However, given its flexible nature, criticizing someone's language often becomes a more socially acceptable way of attacking someone than something that seems like bald-faced racism/sexism/homophobia, etc. In this course we'll explore this complex link between identity and language.nnThis course explores the way language and social identity are defined, discussed, and debated in America, and the assumptions this rhetoric presents about race, class, education and other social identities more broadly. Together, we¿ll consider: What's it like to grow up monolingual versus bilingual or multilingual? What role do our ethnicity and/or race play in how our language skills are perceived? What role do language attitudes and stereotypes play in influencing our daily lives? What role does the media play? How is language discussed in politics? Students will be able to work on a research project related to social identity and language on a topic of their choice.
Last offered: Autumn 2018
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1IY: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetorics of Travel and 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
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Yamboliev, I. (PI)
PWR 1IYA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Art and Science of Gender and its Bending
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: Winter 2019
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JJ: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Language and Thought
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 1JJA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Languages We Speak: Discourses of Linguistic Diversity and Language Change
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.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Johnson, J. (PI)
PWR 1JO: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Join the #LoveArmy: The Rhetoric of Radical Compassion
In this writing class, we will examine the power and possibility of radical compassion. We will briefly explore love's myriad forms before turning almost exclusively to
love of humanity a deep social concern for all people and the willingness to act on that concern as an important foundation for justice. Our inquiry will take us through the fields of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, psychology, sociology, history, philosophy as well as cultural, feminist and religious studies. 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 2017
| 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://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html
Last offered: Winter 2011
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1JPA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Liberal Arts Education
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Peterson, J. (PI)
PWR 1JS: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Beyond DNA: The Omics Revolution
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.
Last offered: Spring 2015
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
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