The course teaches communication strategies in professional settings, emphasizing business communication across multiple modes, including written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal.

This literature survey course introduces students to minoritarian female voices that the traditional (Eurocentric, ablesit) canon often neglects, such as Tsitsi Dangarembga, Una Marson, bell hooks, Mahashweta Devi, Bama, Marjane Satrapi, Sara Ahmed, and Terese Marie Mailhot. Using interactive digital and multimodal tools to engage with literature, films, photographs, social media and music the course trains students to work at the intersections of digital praxis and critical humanistic inquiry engaging literary concepts (like genre, form, narrative voice, and style) to formulate original research questions for their final multimodal project.

The course explores how films from South Asia engage with environmental themes, ecological crises, and cosmopolitan perspectives, examining the intersection of cinema, environmental justice, and cultural representations of nature and global ecological challenges.

Students prepare multimodal assignments (podcasts, video interviews, plot visualizations) to enhance transferable rhetorical skills beyond conventional essay writing.

This course is designed for students who are studying and preparing for careers that will require them to communicate technical problems and solutions to their colleagues and clients through multimodal formats. This advanced course in writing and multimodal rhetoric familiarizes students with the strategies and tactics of the written and oral discourses prized in their disciplinary and institutional communities and helps them to manage those practices effectively in their own communication.

This course focuses on reading and writing in the genres of professional and workplace communication. With current job postings emphasizing communication skills across mediums and devices, our assignments will involve digital and visual rhetorical strategies alongside more traditional document preparation. Students emerge from the class feeling confident and comfortable with composing information in these multiple forms: written, oral, verbal, electronic and nonverbal.

This course introduces students to the rhetorical practices of technical and professional communication in the health sciences, including genres and styles of writing relevant to the field and communicating with the public through visual and oral presentations. Writing in the Health Sciences provides students in health-related disciplines a course that addresses the writing and communication needs of their professions. Doctors, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, and other health-related professionals routinely produce documents and communications for their colleagues, clients, and the public at large. The course examines and identifies discourse practices common to these professions and employs these practices while producing documents addressing relevant community health issues.

This English Course is designed to improve critical reading, writing, and researching skills, all of which will serve students far beyond just English courses. Students, regardless of their majors, utilize these skills in writing final papers for their major classes, giving presentations both in class and in the professional workforce, and in daily communications between peers, professors, and workplace colleagues. The course introduces students to several key topics within Rhetoric and Composition such as: how to critically analyze content and media we regularly engage with, argumentation through incorporating outside sources, and how to research using University Library resources.

ENG 105 is a course in rhetoric and writing to develop reading, writing and critical thinking skills, and accomplishes this by writing in different genres and multimodal environments for a variety of readers, supporting arguments with outside research, and developing the student’s voice, credibility, and authority as a writer and multimodal communicator. The tools and skills students will obtain are applicable to any and all writing situations they may encounter in other courses, university activities, professional career, and beyond. The goal is to help students gain confidence in their ability to respond to situations that require effective communication – which is to say, most situations in life.