WRTG 4905 - Studies in Professional Discourses

This course introduces students to professional discourse, such as legal, medical, governmental, media, or non-profit. Course content may include discourses of legislation, sustainability, risk assessment, world health organizations, legal precedent, and the like. Using a variety of theories and methods for gathering and analyzing professional discourses, students will consider the ways in which professional discourses intersect with larger discourses of power and ideology. Variable topics. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.