The time has come to look forward to the next semester, and for a refreshing change of pace, I’ve decided to revamp/ re-theme the composition course I’m teaching in Spring. Here’s some of what I’ll be up to come January:

Rhetoric in Popular Culture is designed to help you develop your skills in expository and persuasive writing within an academic context, as well as to build your skills as a researcher within a scholarly setting—all through the lens of contemporary popular culture. Using film, television, music, podcasts, Youtube, and more, we will explore how popular culture encodes and influences rhetorical discourse while developing and practicing the skillsets of researching and writing. In this course, you will expand your own critical awareness and learn strategies for engaging critically with popular texts, as well as understand research and analysis as the means of participating in scholarly conversations. This course is also intended to increase your confidence as both a writer and scholar and to equip you with the skills you will need as you pursue your academic courses of study.