WRTG 3890 - Writing and Social Justice

The course examines the discourses of power systems within the United States, considering the ways writing serves as a medium of control over national ideas and group identities. Simultaneously, the course explores rhetoric representative of several national histories, heritages, and social movements. The course focuses on theories or rhetoric and discourse, writing to establish the "other," writing and the construction of race, rhetorical concepts of gender and class, and tools for analyzing power discourses.