Course Description

Argument and Research, WRITING 60

Enrollment and waitlists for Spring Quarter 2024 will CLOSE - April 3, 2024 at 5:00PM

Formerly Writing 39C.
Visit the course website at: http://www.humanities.uci.edu/comp for the list of themes.

Guided writing practice in argumentation, logic and inquiry. Readings are selected from current nonfiction and from materials students select from the University Library. Research strategies emphasized.

Key Information

Credit: 4 quarter units / 2.67 semester units credit
UC Irvine, 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:
General Education: Fulfills College of Letters and Science 2nd Half of R&C

UC Davis:
General Education: AH

UC Irvine:
General Education: GE credit for the last course in lower division writing

UC Los Angeles:
General Education: Writing II

UC Merced:
Unit Credit (see your Academic Advisor)
not recommended (# of quarter units)

UC Riverside:
General Education: ENGL elective units

UC San Diego:
Unit Credit

UC San Francisco:
Unit Credit

UC Santa Barbara:
General Education: Area A2-English Reading and Composition

UC Santa Cruz:
General Education: C2/C

Prerequisites

Writing 45 or Writing 50

Course Fees

$40 for course textbooks.

More About The Course

Relevant Website

Course Creators

Emily Brauer Rogers
Emily Brauer Rogers (Continuing Lecturer, English, UC Irvine) is currently the Online and Instructional Technologies Coordinator at UC Irvine. She has developed online courses for UCI's 39A, B, and C courses and has experience in teaching and training other instructors about the best methods for online pedagogy. Her expertise in online courses has allowed her to also work as an Instructional Designer at UC Irvine where she has helped many professors transfer their classes online. She was one of the designers of the original online curriculum for 39A and has taught the course for six quarters online. She helped pilot the Canvas LMS for UCI's Composition Program and was instrumental in transitioning to the new LMS. She has continued to work with the 39A course as well as help administer 39B and 39C courses. Emily Brauer Rogers (Continuing Lecturer, English, UC Irvine) is currently the Online and Instructional Technologies Coordinator at UC Irvine. She has developed online courses for UCI's 39A, B, and C courses and has experience in teaching and training other instructors about the best methods for online pedagogy. Her expertise in online courses has allowed her to also work as an ...

Emily Brauer Rogers (Continuing Lecturer, English, UC Irvine) is currently the Online and Instructional Technologies Coordinator at UC Irvine. She has developed online courses for UCI's 39A, B, and C courses and has experience in teaching and training other instructors about the best methods for online pedagogy. Her expertise in online courses has allowed her to also work as an Instructional Designer at UC Irvine where she has helped many professors transfer their classes online. She was one of the designers of the original online curriculum for 39A and has taught the course for six quarters online. She helped pilot the Canvas LMS for UCI's Composition Program and was instrumental in transitioning to the new LMS. She has continued to work with the 39A course as well as help administer 39B and 39C courses.

Bradley Queen
Daniel M. Gross

Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (Chicago 2017) and The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago 2006), as well as articles in the field of writing studies that have appeared in the journals Pedagogy and Composition Forum. He has been teaching writing and rhetoric courses since 1991, his first year as a graduate student in the Rhetoric PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley.

Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the ...

Daniel M. Gross (Professor & Director of Composition, UC Irvine) runs a program with 14,000 enrollments annually, and which has offered fully online writing courses since Summer 2009. He has published and taught widely in the history and theory of rhetoric, specializing in the rhetoric of emotion. Relevant publications include Uncomfortable Situations: Emotion between Science and the Humanities (Chicago 2017) and The Secret History of Emotion: From Aristotle’s Rhetoric to Modern Brain Science (Chicago 2006), as well as articles in the field of writing studies that have appeared in the journals Pedagogy and Composition Forum. He has been teaching writing and rhetoric courses since 1991, his first year as a graduate student in the Rhetoric PhD program at the University of California, Berkeley.


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