Upcoming Course Offerings
For a full description of the current semester's offerings, please see the primary listing in undergraduate resources.
Fall 2025
5010 - Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice - Kelly Kinney (MA requirement)
5011 - Professional & Technical Communication: Histories, Theories, and Public Engagement Pedagogies - Michael Knievel (PhD requirement)
5020 - Introduction to Public Humanities - Nichole Nomura (PhD requirement)
5055 - Narrative and Storytelling - Nancy Small (elective)
5455 - Literature of Labor - Scott Henkel (elective)
5885 - Author's Houses - Caroline McCracken-Flesher (elective)
5964 - Thesis Writing Workshop - Julia Obert (MA Requirement)
Spring 2026
5000 - Discourse Analysis - Rick Fisher (elective)
5050 - Writing in Public Genres β Phillip Goodwin (PhD requirement)
5071 - Inquiry for Public Humanities Engagement - Tracey Patton (PhD requirement)
5530 - Posthumanism - Caroline McCracken-Flesher (MA requirement)
5360 - Indigenous Literature & Activism - Rob Jackson (elective)
5965 - Thesis Research II - Michael Edson (MA requirement)β
5900 - APP Support - Phillip Goodwin (PhD requirement)
Fall 2026
5000 - Studies in Comics - Cliff Marks (elective)
5010 - Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice - Kelly Kinney (MA requirement)
5011 - Professional & Technical Communication: Histories, Theories, and Public Engagement Pedagogies - Michael Knievel (PhD requirement)
5020 - Introduction to Public Humanities - Scott Henkel (PhD requirement)
5320 - American Women Writers - Arielle Zibrak (elective)
5964 - Thesis Writing Workshop - Seth Swanner (MA Requirement)
Spring 2027
5050 - Writing in Public Genres - Nicole Nomura (PhD requirement)
5071 - Inquiry for Public Humanities Engagement - Nancy Small (PhD requirement)
5350 - Irish Literature - Julia Obert (elective)
5530 - Literary and Critical Theory - Rob Jackson (MA requirement)
5965 - Thesis Research II - Scott Henkel (MA requirement)β
5900 - APP Support - Phillip Goodwin (PhD requirement)
Past Course Offerings
Fall 2024
5010 - Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice - Rick Fisher (MA requirement)
5011 - Professional and Technical Communication: Histories, Theories, and Public Engagement Pedagogies - TBA (PhD requirement)
5020 - Introduction to Public Humanities - Arielle Zibrak (PhD requirement)
5075 - Black American Rhetorics - Tracey Patton (MA/PhD elective)
5350 - Renaissance Historicism: Excavating and Editing the Archive - Seth Swanner (MA/PhD elective)
5960 - Thesis Research I - Julia Obert (MA Requirement)
Spring 2025
5000 - Studies In: Cultural Tourism - Caroline McCracken-Flesher (MA/PhD elective)
5350 β Studies In: Holocaust Literature & Film β Cliff Marks (MA/PhD elective)
5050 β Writing in Public Genres β Arielle Zibrak (PhD requirement)
5071 - Qualitative Analysis: Inquiry for Public Humanities Engagement - Nancy Small (PhD requirement)
5965 - Thesis Research II - Michael Edson (MA requirement)β
Spring 2024
5000 - Black Popular Culture - Ulli Adelt (crosslisted with AMST/AAST 5560)
5000 - Histories of Literacy - Steven M Bialostok (crosslisted with EDUC)
5320 - American Women Writers - Arielle Zibrak
5360 - U.S. Latino Literature - Margarita Pignataro (synchronous online)
5530 - Modern Critical Theory - Caroline McCracken-Flesher
5964 - Thesis Writing Workshop - Kelly Kinney
5965 - Thesis Research II - Nancy Small
5990 - Internship
Fall 2023
5010 - Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice - Rick Fisher
5960 - Thesis Research I - Scott Henkel
5050 - Writing in Public Genres - Arielle Zibrak
5075 - Non-Profit Writing and Grants - Mike Knievel
5350 - Irish Literature - Julia Obert
5990 - Internship
Spring 2023
5000 - Environmental Humanities and Ecocritical Theory - Matt Henry
5061- Rhetorical Theory - Tracey Patton
5270 - Eighteenth-Century Novel - Michael Edson
5320 β Realism and Naturalism β Arielle Zibrak
5964 - Thesis Writing Workshop - Michael Edson
5965 β Thesis Research II β Michael Edson
Fall 2022
5000 - Non-Fiction Comics - Cliff Marks
5010 β Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice β Kelly Kinney
5055 β Studies in Narrative and Storytelling β Nancy Small
5890 β Consumption, Cultures, Markets β Kent Drummond
5960 β Thesis Research I β Susan Aronstein
Spring 2022
5050 β Writing in Public Genres β Arielle Zibrak
5074 β Studies in Civic Discourse and Public Engagement β Nancy Small
5360 β U. S. Latino Literature β Margarita Pignataro
5530 β Modern Critical Theory: Race -Ancient to Modern β Carolyn Anderson
5965 β Thesis Research II β Scott Henkel
5990 β Internship
Fall 2021
5000 β Getting Medieval β Susan Aronstein
5010 β Rhetoric & Composition History, Theory, & Practice β Kelly Kinney
5020 β Authorβs Houses β Caroline McCracken-Flesher
5061 β Classical Rhetoric and Pedagogy β Jason Thompson
5270 - Histories of Reading - Michael Edson
5960 β Thesis Research I β Julia Obert
5990 β Internship
Spring 2021
5000 β Pop Culture β Susan Aronstein
5280 β Romanticism β Cliff Marks
5320 β American Women Writers β Arielle Zibrak
5530 β Affect Theory β Julia Obert
5965 β Thesis Research II β Scott Henkel
5990 β Internship
Fall 2020
5010 - Rhetoric and Composition - Kelly Kinney
5960 - Thesis Research I - Julia Obert
5890 - Consumption, Markets, and Culture - Kent Drummond
5071 - Qualitative Methods: Embodied Knowledge-Making - Nancy Small
5330 - Native American and Indigenous Literature and Film - Caskey Russell
Spring 2020
5530 β Readings in Literary Theory β Susan Frye
5965 β Thesis Research II β Michael Edson
5061 - Rhetorics of Public Memory - Nancy Small
5000 β Radical Women Rhetors β Kelly Kinney
5050 - Writing in Public Genres - Arielle Zibrak
Fall 2019
5000 - Storytelling as Rhetorical Theory, Method, and Product - Nancy Small
5000 - Texts and Textiles - Susan Frye
5010 β Rhetoric and Composition: History, Theory, and Practice β Rick Fisher
5960 β Thesis Research I β Scott Henkel
5320 β Realism and Naturalism - Arielle Zibrak
GWMST 5710 - Feminist Theoretical Perspectives - Bunny Logan
Spring 2019
5530 β Modern Critical Theory & Practice β Arielle Zibrak
5965 β Thesis Research II β Michael Edson
5000 -- Studies in: Technical Communication, Rhetoric, and Genre -- Michael Knievel
5310 - Early American Literature (up to 1800): Reading Race in America - Jeanne Holland
5330 - 20th Century American Literature: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender -- Caskey Russell
