WRTG 21100 - Writing for the Workplace
Basic on-the-job writing necessary to join, manage, and promote any organization, whether profit or nonprofit. Focus is primarily on short forms: résumés, memos, business letters, summaries, brochures, newsletters, press releases, informal proposals, and reports. Course also explores how various social, economic, and ethical issues affect workplace writing. Prerequisites: ICSM10800, ICSM 11800, or WRTG10600. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: ESTS, HU, WI, WRPW
4 Credits
WRTG 21300 - Technical Writing
Fundamentals for communicating technical, medical, and scientific information to general and specialized audiences. Class emphasizes the foundations of technical writing, their formats and applications, context-specific writing strategies, basic visual design, and ethics. Some reading in and discussion of the history of technology and its influence on human society and culture. Prerequisites: ICSM10800, ICSM 11800, or WRTG10600. (F,E)
Attributes: ESTS, HU, WI, WRPW
4 Credits
WRTG 21700: Inquiry, Research, and Writing Across the Curriculum
Prepares students across the disciplines to engage in inquiry-based research, examining questions relevant to their fields and interests and producing substantial formal writing in a range of research genres. Emphasizes writing and research as recursive processes. Focuses on development of effective research practices, including identifying, locating, evaluating, and integrating sources ethically and effectively. Prerequisites: ICSM10800, ICSM 11800, or WRTG10600. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: HM, TIII, WI, WRRC
4 Credits
WRTG 31100 - Writing for the Professions
Advanced, thematically centered workplace writing focusing on more complex forms: policy statements, position papers, dossiers, legal documentation, and long reports. Course themes vary and encourage dialogue on major issues among different professions in business, government, law, and medicine. All sections are grounded in argument, ethics, and the humanities. Class readings may include casebooks, theoretical essays, or historical documents. Prerequisites: One 200-level course in Liberal Arts and WRTG10600 or ICSM10800. (S,O)
Attributes: ESTS, WI, WRPW
4 Credits
WRTG 31400 - Science Writing
Advanced expository course on journalistic and literary scientific writing. Students learn to communicate scientific facts and theories to professional and sophisticated lay readers through description, analogy, narrative, and argument. Some discussion of the technical and scholarly conventions of formal scientific writing. Class readings include major humanistic essays from the history of science and articles and features from contemporary popular and scientific publications. Prerequisites: One 200-level course in Liberal Arts and WRTG10600 or ICSM10800. (E,S)
Attributes: ESTS, WI, WRPW
4 Credits
WRTG 41500 - Senior Seminar
Small group setting for students to undertake focused, intensive exploration and research of ideas and issues in writing within selected advanced topics not provided elsewhere in the curriculum. Provides opportunity for advanced coursework that nurtures serious investigation of specific issues within their discipline, and fosters intellectual dialogue about writing among students. Seminar topics vary each semester. Satisfies the ICC Capstone requirement. Permission of instructor required. Prerequisites: Two WRTG courses, at least one of which must be at 300-level. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: WI
4 Credits
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