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SPRING 2023
Department of English
Undergraduate Course Bulletin
Resources
Department Website
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DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
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TABLE OF CONTENTS (CLICK TO JUMP TO SECTION)
TABLE OF CONTENTS (CLICK TO JUMP TO SECTION) ...................................... 2
SECTION DESCRIPTIONS ......................................................................... 2
CREATIVE WRITING ................................................................................................... 3
Fiction I | MARK LEIB, PhD ......................................................................................... 3
Fiction II | MARK LEIB, PhD ........................................................................................ 3
Form & Technique of Nonfiction | RACHEL KNOX .............................................................. 3
Form & Technique of Poetry | RYAN CHENG, MFA ............................................................. 4
Introduction to Creative Writing: Narration and Description | ANDREA RINARD ........................... 4
Linked Short Stories | JAKE WOLFF, PhD ........................................................................ 5
Screenwriting | MARK LEIB, PhD .................................................................................. 5
Writing Speculative Fiction | KAREN BROWN, PhD ............................................................. 5
ENGLISH (GENERAL) .................................................................................................. 6
Directed Reading in Writing Consulting Theory and Practice | ANDREW PETRYKOWSKI .................. 6
Film & Culture | PHILLIP SIPIORA, PhD .......................................................................... 6
Film & Culture | LISA STARKS, PhD ............................................................................... 7
Literary Criticism | REGINA HEWITT, PhD ....................................................................... 7
Senior Literature Seminar: Literature and the Environment: Crisis to Renewal | GURLEEN GREWAL,
PhD .................................................................................................................... 8
LITERATURE .......................................................................................................... 10
The 18th Century British Novel: Fictional Travel Narratives & the Global 18th Century | JESSICA COOK,
PhD ................................................................................................................... 10
The Bible as Literature | GARY LEMONS, PhD.................................................................. 10
Cultural Studies and Pop Artists: Pride and Prejudice and Popular Culture | LAURA L. RUNGE, PhD . 11
Intro to Literature: Dangerous Women | ANN BASSO, PhD ................................................... 12
Intro to Literature: Imagining The Edible: Food In Literary Fiction | MANJARI THAKUR ................ 12
PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS .......................................................... 13
Visual Rhetoric for Technical Communication | JESSICA GRIFFITH ......................................... 13
Writing Technologies | PETER FIELDS ........................................................................... 13
SECTION DESCRIPTIONS
Below are a number of section descriptions for some of our English major courses. View the catalog to
see catalog course descriptions and contact an advisor if you have questions or need advising.
This bulletin is continuously updated as section descriptions come in, so check usf.edu/englishbulletin
frequently for updates!
Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if you
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CREATIVE WRITING
FICTION I | MARK LEIB, PHD
CRW 3112-002, 004 | CRN 11661, 21461
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 PM- 1:45 PM, Mondays & Wednesdays 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, CPR 460, CPR 471
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to develop the talents of undergraduates in the writing of meaningful short
stories. It aims to equip students with the principles underlying the successful deployment of plot,
character, dialogue, and description, and aims to teach student writers to become effective self-
critical thinkers. Assignments include one autobiographical story as well as stories built around
conflict, mystery, and an unreliable narrator. Stories will be workshopped in class and discussed by
students and professor.
Catalog listing: CRW 3112
FICTION II | MARK LEIB, PHD
CRW 3121-901 | CRN 11935
Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 PM- 3:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, CPR 337
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to stretch and expand student talents in the writing of short stories. Students
will be asked to advance beyond simple realist fiction and experiment with stories that use email,
detail one character from the perspective of another, follow classic quest structure, and modernize a
tale from the Bible. Stories will be workshopped in class and discussed by students and professor.
Catalog listing: CRW 3121
FORM & TECHNIQUE OF NONFICTION | RACHEL KNOX
CRW 3211-001 | CRN 25520
Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:00 PM- 3:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, CPR 251
SECTION DESCRIPTION
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.
What I want and what I fear.” – Joan Didion
How does a writer find out what they truly think about the world? What they want, and what they fear?
In this class, we’ll look at the craft of narrative nonfiction, learning how to employ techniques specific
to the genre and the forms that have been shaped by those authors who write about “real life”. We’ll
start at the beginning, using the basic storytelling techniques we’re familiar with from prior learning,
and deepen our understanding of the mechanics of nonfiction through close reading, practice,
generative discussions, and the development of an individual writing practice.
Catalog listing: CRW 3211
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FORM & TECHNIQUE OF POETRY | RYAN CHENG, MFA
CRW 3311-002 | CRN 11268
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 PM- 1:45 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, EDU 161
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This class will introduce you to poetic forms and techniques. Everyone is welcome and no previous
poetry experience is required!
We will focus on reading, writing, and discussing poetry of both our classmates and established poets.
We will read a wide range of poets and cover forms (villanelle, sonnet, triolet, etc.) and craft
techniques (line breaks, sound work, etc.). We will also learn to read as a writer and engage in small
group workshops. There will be weekly readings and writing prompts.
By the end of the course, you will leave with a larger set of tools and strategies that will translate to
writing more powerful poetry as you develop your observational, reading and writing skills that will
translate to areas beyond just poetry.
Feel free to email me with any questions: chengr@usf.edu
Catalog listing: CRW 3311
INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING: NARRATION AND DESCRIPTION | ANDREA RINARD
CRW 2100-005 | CRN 11262
Thursdays 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, BSN 1400
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In this introductory course, we will explore short works to learn the tools writers use to compose
stories, memoirs, and poems. Once we see the crafts in practice, we’ll put them to work in our own
writing.
This course is for beginning writers who want to start out with lots of skills and techniques all the way
to experienced writers who want to sharpen their tools or even explore a new genre. All majors are
welcome to this highly interactive class. If you have any questions, please reach out to
rinard@usf.edu.
Catalog listing: CRW 2100
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LINKED SHORT STORIES | JAKE WOLFF, PHD
CRW 4930-002 | CRN 12650
Mondays 6:30 PM - 9:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, CPR 251
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course focuses on the novel-in-stories, also known as a linked collection—a hybrid form that falls in
the middle space between a novel and a short story collection. Together, we will read several linked
collections in order to explore the techniques each author uses to create a cohesive book-length
narrative out of individual short stories. In the second half of the class, you will have the chance to
begin writing and workshopping a pair of linked stories of your own. Ultimately, the course aims to
show you the value of writing short fiction within a more fully imagined world.
Catalog listing: CRW 4930
SCREENWRITING | MARK LEIB, PHD
CRW 4930-003 | CRN 12649
Mondays & Wednesdays 2:00 PM- 3:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, NES 103
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course is an introduction to the writing of screenplays. The six key features of any screenplay –
action, character, dialogue, description, concept, and format – will be emphasized, as will the creation
of scripts according to standard three-act form. Students will be asked to write one-third of a full
screenplay (subject of their own choosing) by the end of the semester. All screenplay segments will be
workshopped in class and discussed by students and professor.
Catalog listing: CRW 4930
WRITING SPECULATIVE FICTION | KAREN BROWN, PHD
CRW 4930-001 | CRN 20173
Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, BSN 2300
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In this writing workshop we will focus on speculative fiction—literature that includes literary fiction
with fantastical elements, hard science fiction, epic fantasy, ghost stories, horror, folk and fairy tales,
slipstream, magical realism and modern myth-making. We will examine the structures and parameters
of the genres, subgenres, and cross genres that represent this literature through close reading of short
stories by new voices. Students will choose one additional text that they feel is in conversation with
their own work to read and analyze. As a workshop, the focus will be on the production of original
fiction. This course will allow you to explore the magical and strange, to ask, “What if?” and invent
alternatives, and to research markets for publication of your work.
Catalog listing: CRW 4930
Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if you
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ENGLISH (GENERAL)
DIRECTED READING IN WRITING CONSULTING THEORY AND PRACTICE | ANDREW
PETRYKOWSKI
ENG 4907-001 | CRN 20227
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa Campus, SOC 402
SECTION DESCRIPTION
ENG 4907 is the tutor training course for USF’s Writing Studio. In the course, you will learn how to help
other students become more effective writers. As you learn about and practice tutoring philosophies,
techniques, and strategies, you’ll also become a better writer yourself. At the end of the course, three
to five of the most promising students will be offered tutoring positions in the Writing Studio as peer
tutors, starting Fall 2023.
This low-capacity course will offer you focused, hands-on experience in how to think about and talk
about writing in more productive ways. Starting in week four, students will work in the USF Writing
Studio for two hours per week to gain practical experience. You will start by observing experienced
consultants, and eventually carry out your own tutoring sessions independently. For any questions,
please email Writing Studio Coordinator Andrew Petrykowski, petrykowski@usf.edu.
Catalog Listing: ENG 4907
FILM & CULTURE | PHILLIP SIPIORA, PHD
ENG 3674-001, 002, 003 | CRN 22110, 22111, 22112
Tuesdays 3:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa Campus, CPR 103
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course will examine various films by significant filmmakers, especially those films that illustrate
popular culture(s). We will consider different perspectives of popular culture according to shifts in
cultural and intellectual assumptions over time that are represented in the cinematic tradition. Our
class time will be spent viewing films and discussing cinema as well as discussing their development
and importance, with particular attention paid to discussing various ways of "reading" films in terms of
the ways they reflect popular culture. Diversity and inclusion are acts of welcoming and respecting
diversity and this course presents films that reflect these values over time.
ASSIGNMENTS INCLUDE
• Quizzes
• Film Response Notes
• Essay (Draft Version)
• Essay (Final Version)
• Digital Project
• Final Examination
Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if you
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TEXT
Barsam, Richard and Dave Monahan. Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film, 6th ed. New
York: W.W. Norton, 2018.
Catalog Listing: ENG 3674
FILM & CULTURE | LISA STARKS, PHD
ENG 3674-601 | CRN 25273
Tuesdays 3:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa Campus, DAV 265
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Join us Spring 2023 semester for ENG 3674: Film and Culture! I’m so excited to explore the ways in
which movies shape, respond to, and comment on us and our world—as well as how we, in turn,
dynamically impact and respond to them. This spring, we’ll be looking specifically at cultural topics
concerning gender, sexuality, and intersections between them and other facets of human diversity in
films. We will explore how films shape, reflect, comment on, and, at times, attempt to "repair" culture
by studying various examples by significant filmmakers that provide illustrative examples. We will
consider different perspectives of gender, sexuality, and intersectionality according to shifts in cultural
and intellectual assumptions over time that are represented in the movies. In so doing, we’ll learn
about formal, technical aspects of cinema and some kinds of film theory. Assignments include readings
and film viewings, interactive quizzes (in Canvas), in-class participation, discussion board assignments,
a term essay, a digital project, and an essay exam. Required course materials include this electronic
textbook: Richard, B. & Monahan, D. (2022). Looking at Movies: An Introduction to Film (7th ed.). W.W.
Norton & Company, Inc. and some video rentals via YouTube or other service for films not available
through our library. (Typically, a rental cost ranges from $2.99 - $3.99 per film.)
Catalog Listing: ENG 3674
LITERARY CRITICISM | REGINA HEWITT, PHD
ENG 4013-700 | CRN 22110, 22111, 22112
All Online | Asynchronous
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Students in this course will survey a selection of texts from landmark controversies in the history of
literary criticism and consider why they have been influential and controversial in Western culture,
especially in Britain, from ancient to present times. Controversies to be studied include whether
literature is a means to a moral goal or an end in itself; whether publication should be subject to
censorship or licensing, and whether national or cultural identities are strengthened by following
literary precedents or departing from them. Critics to be studied range from Plato and Aristotle
through Aphra Behn, Samuel Johnson and William Wordsworth to Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde and
Stephen Greenblatt. Students will also examine the genres and techniques (such as dialogues, letters,
periodical essays, dictionaries, biographical inquiries) at issue in these controversies, either as part of
the matter criticized or as means for carrying out the critical investigations, and they will practice
using some of these instruments in weekly assignments.
Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if you
have questions or need assistance.SPRING 2023 | ENGLISH UNDERGRADUATE BULLETIN PAGE |8
This class will be conducted entirely online. There will be no synchronous meetings or teleconferences,
but students will be expected to follow a given schedule for postings on and responses to assigned
material. Information about the schedule and further particulars will appear in Canvas on the day
before the first day of classes.
ASSIGNMENTS
• Online communication (discussion posts and responses) on assigned questions by specified
deadlines (usually twice per week); most of this work will involve group collaboration
• Quizzes
• Research assignment
TEXTS
• David H. Richter, ed. The Critical Tradition: Shorter Edition. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin, 2016.
ISBN-10: 1-319-01118-7; ISBN-13: 978-1-319-01118-5
• Some additional readings will be assigned; files will be provided in Canvas or directions will be
given for library or internet access.
Catalog Listing: ENG 4013
SENIOR LITERATURE SEMINAR: LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: CRISIS TO RENEWAL |
GURLEEN GREWAL, PHD
ENG 4934-001 | CRN 25362
Mondays 6:30 PM – 9:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, CPR 256
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The hailing of the current geological age as the “Anthropocene” recognizes the deleterious effects of
human agency on the planet. A salutary direction in literary/cultural critical studies (contemporary
environmental humanities) is the growing awareness of our embeddedness in place, our coexistence
with other species. This course addresses American and transnational literary representations,
interdisciplinary theories and eco-critiques to engage the following critical issues: the ideology of
atomism; postcolonial and indigenous critiques of the paradigms of unsustainability; social justice and
environmental crises; land, animal, and food ethics; ecological awareness and integral, holistic
epistemologies for realigning ourselves with all life on the planet.
TEXTS
• Amitav Ghosh, Nutmeg’s Curse (U. of Chicago Press, 2022)
• Toni Morrison, A Mercy (Vintage, 2008)
• Mark Bittman, Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal
(Harvest, 2022).
• Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the
Teachings of Plants (Milkweed, 2013).
• Freya Mathews, The Ecological Self (Routledge, 2021).
• Vaughan-Lee, Llewellyn, ed. Spiritual Ecology: Cry of the Earth (The Golden Sufi Center, 2016).
• Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver. (Penguin, 2020).
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In addition, we shall view/discuss related documentaries and scholarly articles. Some of the above
texts are available online at the USF library.
Catalog Listing: ENG 4934
Listings & descriptions subject to change. View the catalog to see catalog course listings and contact advising if you
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LITERATURE
THE 18 T H CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL: FICTIONAL TRAVEL NARRATIVES & THE GLOBAL 18 T H
CENTURY | JESSICA COOK, PHD
ENL 4112-001 | CRN 21475
Mondays & Wednesdays 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa Campus, BSN 1300
SECTION DESCRIPTION
In this course we’ll read fictional prose narratives set in various locations of the eighteenth-century
global world: the Caribbean and South America, the American colonies, Europe, and Great Britain
itself. We’ll discuss how Britons perceive themselves and others as they travel in and around their
home country and beyond; their adventures are sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, and always
interesting. We’ll encounter a wide range of travelers, including several castaways on deserted (and
not so deserted) islands, a biracial heiress who leaves her native Jamaica for an arranged marriage in
England, a naïve tourist who finds romance and what she hopes is a Gothic mystery, and a young queer
aristocrat on a raucous Grand Tour of Europe.
Course readings will feature both full novels and shorter excerpts from longer texts; tentative reading
list includes Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s
Travels, Unca Eliza Winkfield’s The Female American, the anonymous The Woman of Colour, Frances
Burney’s Evelina, Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, and Mackenzie Lee’s contemporary YA novel, The
Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue.
Contact Dr. Jessica Cook (jlcook4@usf.edu) with any questions about the course, or your academic
advisor with questions on what degree requirements this course will fulfill.
Catalog Listing: ENL 4112
THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE | GARY LEMONS, PHD
LIT 3374-901 | CRN 17487
Tuesdays 6:30 PM – 9:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa Campus, CPR 256
SECTION DESCRIPTION
I begin the description of this course by quoting a passage from How to Read the Bible as
Literature…and get more out of it, by Leland Ryken. He asks the question: “Is the Bible [l]iterature?”
He answers by saying: “THERE IS A QUIET REVOLUTION GOING ON in the study of the Bible. At its
center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary
scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.”
This course will specifically focus on narrative documentation of the life of Jesus. Concentrating on the
history of Jesus—reading The Single Gospel: Matthew, Mark, Luke and John Consolidated into a Single
Narrative by Neil Averitt—students will interpret, analyze, and comprehend this author’s
representation of Jesus (as recorded biblically in the New Testament).
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Specifically exploring the story-telling strategies of Jesus—as a teacher and visionary who employed
creative narratives to question and deconstruct dictatorial patriarchy, sexism, separatist religious laws,
and hegemony—students will comprehend the unwavering stance Jesus held against legalistic ideologies
of “religious” identification. As such, this course will foreground the revolutionary standpoint of Jesus
as a model of visionary, non-conformance rooted in dedicated commitment to community-service and
the power of bridge-building alliances—across borders of difference.
Overall, in this course, students studying “The Bible as literature” will become critically conscious of
the life-transformative agency of Jesus as a visionary story-teller strategically linking groundbreaking
narratives to promote the value of human justice—particularly related to the liberation of all oppressed
people.
Catalog Listing: LIT 3374
CULTURAL STUDIES AND POP ARTISTS: PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND POPULAR CULTURE |
LAURA L. RUNGE, PHD
LIT 3301-700, 701 | CRN 17996, 17997
Mondays & Wednesdays 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM, 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM
Hybrid Class Lecture | USF Tampa Campus, EDU 261
INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD
This course will meet for six online synchronous sessions on January 9th, January 11th, March 6th, April
19th, April 24th, and April 26th at and use other pedagogical strategies for student engagement and
classwork. Do not register for this course if you cannot meet the days and times listed.
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course applies literary and cultural studies theories to analyze the immensely popular classical
novel by Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, and five of its contemporary adaptations. The course
material involves discussions of race, class, gender, sexuality, slavery, colonialism and postcolonialism.
We will also focus on literary modes and genres: romance, satire, adaptations, historical novels, video
web series and streaming video series. BUT, it’s really all about finding true love. Or, is it?
TEXTS
• Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (originally published 1813), any authorized edition including
online
• Eligible, a Modern Retelling of Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Curtis Sittenfeld, Random House,
2016
• Longbourn, Jo Baker, Doubleday/Knopf, 2013
• Bride and Prejudice (film) Gurinder Chadha, dir. Miramax, 2005
• The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Season One (web series), Bernie Su and Margaret Dunlap, dir. (2012),
YouTube
• Bridgerton, Season One, (Steaming Video Series), Created by Chris Van Deusen, Shondaland
CVD Productions, Netflix, 2020
Assignments include weekly blog posts, comprehension quizzes for each work, an analytical paper, a
group designed mini adaptation and presentation and final exam.
Catalog Listing: LIT 3301
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INTRO TO LITERATURE: DANGEROUS WOMEN | ANN BASSO , PHD
LIT 2000-702 | CRN 17994
All Online | Asynchronous
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The theme of this course is most salient in the 2018 novel My Sister the Serial Killer. As we move into
the genre of drama, we will meet the murderous Medea and the manipulative plotter Lady Macbeth.
Some of the other works have been included because the authors are treading on dangerous ground,
(Kate Chopin, Annie Proulx) bringing up uncomfortable ideas or challenging societal norms, while
others include characters (Daisy Miller, Clarice Starling) who are dangerous to others or dangers to
themselves. In the poetry unit, we will look as far back as Shakespeare’s dark lady of the sonnets, all
the way to the Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins, and Nikki Giovanni.
TEXTS
The textbook cost for this course will be very low:
• My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite. Atlantic Books, 2019 (about $9.00)
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Signet Classics, 1998. (about $5.00, or free on Kindle)
• All other readings will be provided in the modules, including the films.
Catalog Listing: LIT 2000
INTRO TO LITERATURE: IMAGINING THE EDIBLE: FOOD IN LITERARY FICTION | MANJARI
THAKUR
LIT 2000-012 | CRN 18802
Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa campus, BSN 1200
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Food is essential to all life, but universally, it is also an indulgence, even a passion, that more are
exploring; and its juices are dripping into so many areas of life and study that it is hard to
ignore. Recent interest in food studies has opened doors in literary studies to examine how the use of
food imagery and metaphor represent complex ideas and deeper meaning in literature. In this course,
we will analyze food metaphors to reflect on cultural identity that may include various issues from
immigration and nostalgia, to social position to sexual desire to gender relations. We will examine
fictional novels and movies from different countries to articulate the culture, gender issues, and
religion through the lens of food motifs. Course material includes authors such as Margaret Atwood,
and Salman Rushdie, among many others, and many enthralling multicultural movies.
Catalog Listing: LIT 2000
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PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL COMMUNICATIONS
VISUAL RHETORIC FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION | JESSICA GRIFFITH
ENC 4218-002 | CRN 17861
Mondays & Wednesdays 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Class Lecture | USF Tampa Campus, BSN 1309
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Visual rhetoric is more than just designing well; it’s designing effectively for specific rhetorical
situations—for example, taking into consideration the goal or purpose of a design, the needs and
expectations of the audience, and the context in which the design will circulate.
In this course, you will learn how to use principles of rhetoric and design to create persuasive visual
documents. This class will help you to develop your skills by having you redesign an organizational
document (such as a flyer, advertisement, etc.), creating your own self logo, and designing for social
change.
TEXT
• Williams, R. (2015). The Non-Designer’s Design Book, Fourth Edition. San Francisco: Peachpit
Press. ISBN 9780133966343.
Catalog Listing: ENC 4218
WRITING TECHNOLOGIES | PETER FIELDS
ENC 3370-700 | CRN 25516
All Online | Asynchronous
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Not only does every person write and communicate on their job and in their lives, they do so most
often through technology. This course will help you understand the types of technologies available,
become a critical consumer and user of them, and give you specific transferable skills that you can
apply in any writing and communication situation.
Throughout the class, you will be asked to use various technologies across Microsoft Office and Adobe
Creative Suite to write, design, organize, present, and communicate information to address a range of
audiences and purposes. These texts will be created and analyzed by applying basic design principles
used in developing documents for professional workplaces. Getting hands-on experience with these
technologies will prepare you to maximize the affordances of each, and use that knowledge to navigate
future rhetorical situations.
Through weekly readings and our four projects, you will be able to employ flexible strategies for
generating, revising, editing, proofreading, and circulating texts that are suitable for your future
places of work. Essentially, this is a crash course that provides tangible experience with different
writing technologies, and prepares you to produce well-designed, usable, accessible, and inclusive
texts.
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ASSIGNMENTS
• Project 1: Editing Project
• Project 2: Technological Competency
• Project 3: Recruitment Design Project
• Project 4: Information Design and Critical Analysis
Catalog Listing: ENC 3370
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