WRTG 10600: Academic Writing I
This introductory writing course teaches academic writing as a craft that includes multiple genres and technologies. Students locate, evaluate, and integrate information into projects that see them forming and supporting their own arguments and positions. Academic writing as a craft is anchored in rhetorical situations of audience, context, purpose, language, and image. It is also an ethical practice that grapples with questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The course therefore enables students to enter academic, civic, and professional conversations with rhetorical awareness. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: 3A, HU
4 Credits
WRTG 16400: Writing for Professional Success
Introduces students to the rhetorical awareness, social conventions, and writing habits necessary to succeed in complex and diverse academic, professional, and media settings. Engages with the foundational elements of communication, preparedness, cultural competency, personal organization, and resiliency. Course materials will provide students the tools and opportunity to discover new professional interests and to turn their interests into actionable goals. (F,S,Y)
4 Credits
WRTG 17500: Introduction to Creative Writing
This class offers a hands-on exploration of what creative writing is and why we write it. Students experiment with genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry while also challenging the boundaries of genre. Students analyze strategies used by other writers from a diverse range of cultural experiences and reflect on how creative writing engages identity in intentional ways that unveil systems of power. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: 3A, CA, FA, HM, MC, TIDE, TIII
4 Credits
WRTG 20500: Personal Essay
Introduction to writing essays in which students explore their own memories, experiences, observations, perspectives, and identities. Emphasis is placed on self-interrogation and inquiry, as well as craft techniques such as narration, description, reflection, and analysis. Course material will provide examples of the personal essay form and help students examine the insights and limitations of personal experience as they consider the self within the context of the larger world. Prerequisites: ICSM10800, ICSM 11800, or WRTG10600. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: 3A, CA, HM, HU, TIDE, WRCW, WRRC
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 21800: Writing Center Pedagogy
Theory and practice of tutoring in writing centers. Required for students who have been hired to work in the Writing Center. 1 credit.
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 23600: Fiction Writing I
Students study and practice strategies of writing fiction, developing skills of process including conception, planning, drafting, reflection, and revision. Students analyze and discuss fiction from a diverse range of cultural experiences. Prerequisites: WRTG17500. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: 3A, FA, WRCW
4 Credits
WRTG 23800: Poetry Writing I
A combination reading and practice course in which students will develop poetic strategies, encounter diverse contemporary lyric writing, and practice writing poetry to reflect a range of forms and modes within the genre. Attention will also be focused on how the choices we make as writers of poetry might shape what the reader experiences. Analysis of published models of poetry and student writing will lead to work in revision and culminate in a portfolio of revised pieces. Prerequisites: WRTG17500. (F,S,Y)
Attributes: 3A, FA, WRCW
4 Credits
WRTG 25200: Sophomore Internship
Work and study project designed by the student early in undergraduate career, in consultation with a faculty sponsor and a practicing professional. The H&S internship proposal includes learning objectives, a detailed work plan, and a description of the student's plans for reports to the faculty sponsor. May be repeated up to 3 cr total. Offered on demand only. Prerequisites: Two WRTG courses. (F,S,U,Y)
1-3 Credits
WRTG 34300: Editing and Publishing
An advanced course that prepares students for careers in writing, editing, and publishing through instruction and experiential learning. It focuses on the role of book publishers in both print and digital cultures as well as literary journals and consumer magazines. Students look at the responsibilities of editors, agents, and copyeditors. Assignments include both individual and collaborative editing and publishing projects. The class features visits from professionals in publishing and possible field trips.
3 Credits
WRTG 38000: Visiting Writers' Workshop
An advanced writing workshop offered each semester to coincide with the Department of Writing Distinguished Visiting Writers series. Requires 15 contact hours in meetings, conferences, and classes with both the visiting writer and the writing faculty coordinator. Students produce a 15-page revised manuscript of new work in the relevant genre over the course of the semester. May be repeated up to three times for credit. Prerequisites: Junior standing; permission of instructor. (F-S,Y)
Attributes: UND
1 Credit
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
WRTG 45000: Internship
Work and study project designed by the student, in consultation with a faculty sponsor and a practicing professional. The proposal includes learning objectives, a detailed work plan, and a description of the student's plans for reports to the faculty sponsor. Prerequisites: Junior standing; three writing courses above level 1. Offered on demand only. May be repeated up to twelve credits. (F-S,Y)