PWR 1JU: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Our House: Rhetoric of Community
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 the concept of community. What is community? Who belongs? Why? How do the communities we belong to inform our thinking, guide our behavior, and define our identities? A full course description can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1ju 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:
Schulte, J. (PI)
PWR 1KA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Innovation: Transformations and Missed Opportunities
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 invention, transformations and missed opportunities through the lens of social, financial, and political pressures. Who has the capability to bring a new idea to the public? Who has been silenced? A full course description and video can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1ka For the PWR course catalog please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Spring 2023
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KAA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Forward Momentum: Writing About Movement(s)
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. Humans are constantly evolving our physical world and ourselves. But how far can we go? And what stops us from going further? In this class, we will study the rhetoric of movement--and write and research about movement across contexts. A full course description and video can be found here:
pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1kaa For the PWR course catalog please visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Rothschild, K. (PI)
PWR 1KD: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Feature Article: Writing and 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 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. For course video and full description, see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1kd For
PWR 1 course catalog see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Winter 2022
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KDA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Digital Stories: Great Reads, Podcasts, and Instagram
PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. In this class we will analyze the rhetoric of multi-modal work to see how content providers are mixing print, visual, and audio to tell more engaging stories. We will consider how writers' multi-modal choices in digital genres impact the stories they tell, the thinking on their subject matter, and the audiences they intend. For course video and full description, see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1kda For
PWR 1 course catalog see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
DiPirro, K. (PI)
PWR 1KH: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetorics of Race, Inequality, Language, and Education
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 race, inequality, language and education. Full course description here:
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1kh For all
PWR 1 course videos and full descriptions, see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Last offered: Spring 2022
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KMC: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Staying Cool on a Hot Planet: Environmental Rhetoric for a Changing 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
https://undergrad.stanford.edu/programs/pwr/courses/pwr-1.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KR: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Trust, Rhetoric, and Writing
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 trust as an ancient and persistent rhetorical problem, which impacts how we experience, interpret, and compose information. In our own age of instantaneous global communication and an internet that never forgets, these concerns proliferate. Trust becomes an essential consideration for writers and researchers working to build knowledge at the university and beyond, not to mention a valuable commodity. For course video and full description, see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1kr. For
PWR 1 course catalog see
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
Instructors:
Moore, 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://www.stanford.edu/dept/undergrad/cgi-bin/drupal_ual/AP_univ_req_PWR_Courses.html.
Last offered: Winter 2010
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
PWR 1KSB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Health, Innovation, and Communication
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 engage with the dynamic health sector in all its complexity, and seek to understand the matters that are underdebate, and the movements that are gaining momentum. Beginning with the premise that "health" needs to be defined and studied in context--health is not a universal concept, and it means different things to different people--we will enter the conversation, as students, critics, and scholars. For a full description and video visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1ksb. For
PWR 1 catalog visit
https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-1 Enrollment is handled by the PWR office.
| UG Reqs: Writing 1
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