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WRTG Courses in Cultural Rhetorics (CR) help students think critically about how specific cultures and communities make and convey meaning, enact social and political change, and engage and grapple with cultural exchange by introducing students to rhetorical and other critical frameworks that prioritize power, relationships, accountability, and intersectional identity.

WRTG courses that focus on public rhetorics, civics, and advocacy (PCA) are dedicated to enhancing student abilities to understand and influence contemporary life in civic, social, and professional arenas through public actions such as public commentary, activism, and advocacy.

WRTG Courses in creative nonfiction (CNF) aim to enhance student abilities to express themselves and publish other voices in this uniquely vibrant genre in which creativity, research, personal experience, and rhetorical principles come together.

WRTG Courses that are invested in Community Writing and Research (CWR) are designed to give students on-the-ground experience performing research in local communities and/or writing with local community members and non-profit organizations on matters of interest to that community.

WRTG Courses in Digital Composition and Rhetorics (DCR) aim to help students become more critically informed about how emerging technologies are shaping contemporary life as well as more critically able to leverage various technologies and platforms to address contemporary problems and positively shape situations in contexts of importance to them.

WRTG Courses in Technical and Professional Writing (TPW) strive to prepare students for the diverse and complex research, writing, and communication demands of the contemporary workplace in both in-person and remote spaces.

WRTG courses in Science Writing and Environmental Rhetorics (SWER) teach students how to write about science, the climate, and the environment in critical, creative, and persuasive ways in order to effectively disseminate data, information, analysis, contextualization, and commentary for both receptive and skeptical audiences through the strategic use of data, narrative, and multiple modes, media, and rhetorical appeals.

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PWR courses that focus on stories, genres, and American culture (SGA) aim to enhance student understanding of how genres of oral, written, and multi-media storytelling impact American culture in diverse and powerful ways and how students, too, can create powerful multi-modal stories of their own making.

WRTG Courses that take an Applied Public Humanities (APH) approach aim to expand students’ abilities to marry humanistic inquiry with rhetorical art practices for the sake of cultivating diverse and meaningful relationships, enriching public life, and enhancing the human condition at large.

PWR offers a rich suite of 1000-level writing courses in which students gain the research, writing, and communications skills needed to be critically-informed, successful writers both in and beyond college.