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Course Overview

The remainder of the degree is seven courses chosen from a long list, which can include two courses outside the English Writing, Rhetoric & Technology focus (such as creative writing workshops, film courses, or courses in related majors). For all the details, please review the advising sheets for the English Writing, Rhetoric & Technology Major.

Learning Goals

The complete list of ELOs and the overall assessment plan is as follows:

1. Reading and Analysis: Students read with attention to textual details. They identify models and strategies in other writers’ works and discipline-specific theories to use in their own expository, argumentative, and creative work. They demonstrate the ability to summarize accurately, explicate primary formal and thematic elements, and analyze key motifs and meanings in order to interpret and assess literary, rhetorical, and cinematic works persuasively and insightfully.

2. Critical Inquiry and Context: Students recognize texts as responses to historically, politically, and culturally specific contexts. They examine these contexts by looking for patterns in existing discourses, and they construct their own positions by locating them in relation to those in an ongoing conversation. Students can discuss the socio-historic contingencies that influence experiences, understandings, and evaluations of discourses in various genres. They develop the ability to reflect upon the contingency of their own perspectives and to recognize others’ in order to discern the cultural, political, and material conditions that influence the experience.

3. Written Communication: Students write persuasively across a variety of genres and modes. In their written composition, students can identify and distinguish among disciplinary conventions, evaluate sources, and synthesize arguments using discipline-specific theories and methods. Students can modify the delivery of their ideas in ways appropriate for a given audience, and they can revise their work in response to audience reaction.

4. Content: Students demonstrate knowledge of major genres, major authors/auteurs, historical periods and movements, analytical or theoretical approaches to texts, and the elements of craft and form so as to understand written and visual forms of expression within the complex traditions from which they emerged and to which they respond. Students can discuss and write about these topics using discipline-specific theories and methods.

Entry Requirement 

Course Requirements:

General Requirements: Students majoring in English Writing, Rhetoric & Technology Major (EWRT) must complete 36 hours in EWRT. Twenty-seven hours must be earned in upper-division courses. Courses completed with a grade of C- (1.7) or better will be counted toward the major; none of the 36 hours may be taken pass/fail. A minimum of 15 upper-division hours of work in the EWRT major must be taken with the CU Denver English faculty. Core composition courses (English 1020 and 2030) do not count toward the EWRT major, nor does CLEP or AP credit. Students may not count more than 56 hours in the English department toward graduation; double majors in EWRT and ENGL are exempt (and are required to complete 63 hours). The English Department also offers a minor in Literature, Writing, Creative Writing and Film Studies.  Courses counted in a minor cannot be counted toward the major. 

Honors Program: Latin honors may be earned by working individually with an EWRT professor. Speak to a professor or see handouts regarding honors in the English Department (1015 9th Street Park). 

Internships:  Internships are also available to students who have completed over 60 credit hours; for information, contact The Experiential Learning Center at 303-315-7258 in the Tivoli, Suite 260.  Internships count as upper-division electives.

Fees

(Bachelor) Tuition & Fees: $27342 per year (Fall and Spring)

This information was accurate on : 07/04/2021
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