COMM 3409 — Advocacy Writing

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath WDusually offered: fall, spring, summertypical days: FBostonOnlineOnlineTraditional

Offers an Advanced Writing in the Disciplines (AWD) course. Dedicated to teaching students to write scholarly arguments in the discipline of public advocacy and rhetoric and to translate that work for a general audience. Features both an academic approach to writing in the field of rhetoric and a practical approach to writing persuasively for general audiences.

Prerequisites

• all of:
  • one of:
    • ENGL 1102 (min C)
    • ENGL 1111 (min C)
    • ENGW 1102 (min C)
    • ENGW 1111 (min C)
    • WRIT 201M
    • ENGW 1113 (min C)
    • ENGW 1114 (min C)
  • one of:
    • COMM 1210 (min D-)
    • COMM 1225 (min D-)
    • COMM 1231 (min D-)
    • COMM 250M
    • COMM 1255 (min D-)
    • COMM 1310 (min D-)
    • COMM 1331 (min D-)
    • COMM 1412 (min D-)

Offering history

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 37% · W 24% · Th 0% · F 62%

Common patterns: TF (29% of sections), async (27% of sections), WF (20% of sections), F (13% of sections), T (7% of sections), W (4% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Fall

• Nikki Weickum (100% of students) · reviews

Spring

• Nikki Weickum (100% of students) · reviews

Summer A

• Nikki Weickum (100% of students) · reviews

Summer B

• Nikki Weickum (100% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Unlocks

PHTH 4120, PHTH 4540

Courses that list COMM 3409 in their prerequisites.

Links

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