Course Description
Rhetoric and Inquiry, WRIT 2
Enrollment and waitlists for Fall Quarter 2022 will CLOSE on Sept. 22, 2022 at 5:00pm.
Please notify the instructor (abreaksp@ucsc.edu) by Sept. 22 if your enrollment is pending. This will prevent delays in access to the course.
Provides declarative knowledge about writing, with a special focus on writing from research, composing in multiple genres, and transferring knowledge about writing to new contexts.
Key Information
Credit: 5 quarter units /
3.33 semester units credit
UC Santa Cruz, Writing
Course Credit:
Upon successful completion, all online courses offered through cross-enrollment provide UC unit credit. Some courses are approved for GE, major preparation and/or, major credit or can be used as a substitute for a course at your campus.If "unit credit" is listed by your campus, consult your department, academic adviser or Student Affairs division to inquire about the petition process for more than unit credit for the course.
UC Berkeley:
Unit Credit
UC Davis:
General Education: AH.
UC Irvine:
Course Equivalence: UCI - WR 39C
UC Los Angeles:
Unit Credit
UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
UC Riverside:
General Education: Elective units
UC San Diego:
Unit Credit
UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit
UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area E-Culture and Thought or Area A-1 after petition
May apply to Special Area Writing after petition if not applied toward Area A-1
UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: C2/C
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): College 1 and satisfaction of the Entry Level Writing; or College 80A, 80D, or 80F and satisfaction of the C1 requirement. Enrollment is restricted to frosh, sophomore and junior students.
More About The Course
Rhetoric & Bullshit
Is bullshit the excess of our collective bowel, or the force that keeps it “regular”?
The stench of bullshit is near and clear, and yet it lingers -- why? In this online course, we will explore the role bullshit plays in a “democratic society” by analyzing its relationship to rhetoric; to do this, we will write, read, critique, reflect, and interact with a variety of “texts” that explore a myriad of rhetorical situations and discursive formations -- ancient and modern, political and popular, fabricated and factual -- as a means for studying the excrement of our society. In short, this class will interrogate the shit that stains our collective un/conscious.
Course Creator
Anthony Breakspear
Anthony Breakspear is a teaching faculty member and online education coordinator at UC Santa Cruz; his research interests include multimodal and multilingual (digital) rhetoric, technology, communication, and capitalism, as well as queerness.
Anthony Breakspear is a teaching faculty member and online education coordinator at UC Santa Cruz; his research interests include multimodal and multilingual (digital) rhetoric, technology, communication, and capitalism, as well as queerness.