Additional Elective Courses in Writing and Rhetoric

The Program in Writing and Rhetoric offers several elective courses every quarter that invite students to build on the skills they developed in PWR 1 and PWR 2, further developing their strategies of writing, rhetoric, and oral communication in a range of genres and modes. 

These elective courses align with one of the following thematic tracks: 

• Cultural Rhetorics. Note: All Cultural Rhetorics courses fulfill requirements for earning a Notation in Cultural Rhetorics (NCR).
• Science Communication.  Note: All Science Communication courses fulfill requirements for earning a Notation in Science Communication (NSC).
• Digital Media and Visual Communications.

Questions about these courses? Write us at pwrcourses@stanford.edu.

Autumn 2020

• PWR 91NSC: Introduction to Science Communication (open to all; required of NSC students) Instructor: Emily Polk
• PWR 194EP: Introduction to Environmental Justice: Perspectives on Race, Class, Gender and Place. Instructors: Emily Polk and Sibyl Driver. 

• PWR 99A: Portfolio Preparation I (required of NSC students).  Instructor: Meg Formato

Also see Autumn 2020 elective courses from the Oral Communication Program.

Winter 2021

• PWR 91CL/LIFE 91CL: Self and Science: Using Life Writing to Communicate Science. Instructor: Sarah Pittock
• PWR 91OID: Creating Your Digital Self. Instructors: Holly Fulton, Helen Chen, and Margot Gilliland
• PWR 99B: Portfolio Preparation II (required of NSC students) Instructor: Meg Formato

Also see Winter 2020 elective courses from the Stanford Storytelling Project and the Oral Communication Program.

Spring 2021

• PWR 91JS: The Stanford Science Podcast. Instructor: Jenne Stonaker
• PWR 99A: Portfolio Preparation I (required of NSC and NCR students) Instructor: Meg Formato

Also see Spring 2020 elective courses from the Stanford Storytelling Project and the Oral Communication Program.

Previous elective PWR courses not scheduled to be taught in 2020-21

• PWR 91CW: Seeing Is/And Believing: The Rhetoric of (Big) Data Visualization
• PWR 91EC: Farmers, Scientists, & Activists: Public Discourse of Food Economies
• PWR 91EE: Saving Lives with Picture Books. 
• PWR 91EP: Communicating Climate Change: Navigating the Stories from the Frontlines
• PWR 91F: Finding Your Story
• PWR 91KD: Scripting Entertainments (for a Better YouTube). 
• PWR 91KS: Design Thinking and Science Communication
• PWR 91KSB: Science and Storytelling 
• PWR 91KTB: Game. Set. Match. Shaping Publics to Shape Movements 
• PWR 91MC: Activist Rhetoric
• PWR 91SP: Doctors' Stories: The Rhetoric of Illness and Healing. 
• PWR 91TB: Being [Blank] at Stanford. Instructor: Tessa Brown.
• PWR 194AB: Freedom's Mixtape: Music and Social Movements in African American Rhetorical Traditions
• PWR 194ABA: Purple Reign: Prince and Contemporary Black Rhetorics
• PWR 194AJ: Contemporary Black Rhetorics: Black Twitter and Black Digital Cultures
• PWR 194AV: Drawn from Life: The Power of True Stories in Autobio Comics
• PWR 194BR: The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
• PWR 194CW: Brave New Worlds: (De)Coloniality and Mesitz@ Rhetorics. 
• PWR 194DH: Empathy, Ethics, and Compassion Meditation: Practices in the Fight for Social Justice 
• PWR 194KD: Technology and Human Values
• PWR 194KT: The Last Hopi On Earth: The Rhetoric of Entertainment Inequity
• PWR 194MF: In the Margins of the Laboratory Notebook: Race, Gender and the Rhetoric of Science
• PWR 194NCR: Introduction to Cultural Rhetorics
• PWR 194SB: The Rhetoric of Science
• PWR 194SS: Making Rhetoric Matter: Human Rights at Home