Graduate Course Rotation

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 - Rick Fisher (MA requirement)

5011 - Professional & Technical Communication: Histories, Theories, and Public Engagement Pedagogies - Kelly Kinney (PhD requirement)

5020 - Introduction to Public Humanities - TBA (PhD requirement)

5055 - Narrative and Storytelling - Nancy Small (elective)

literature elective TBA

5964 - Thesis Writing Workshop - Julia Obert (MA Requirement)

Spring 2026

5000 - Discourse Analysis - Rick Fisher (elective)

5050 - Writing in Public Genres – TBA (PhD requirement)

5071 - Inquiry for Public Humanities Engagement - Tracey Patton (PhD requirement)

5530 - Literary and Social Theory - TBA (MA requirement)

5885 - Author's Houses - Caroline McCracken-Flesher (elective)

5965 - Thesis Research II - Michael Edson (MA requirement)​

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 – Studies In: Holocaust Literature & Film – Cliff Marks (MA/PhD elective)

5050 – Writing in Public Genres – Arielle Zibrak (PhD requirement)

5071 - Qualitative Analysis: Inquiry for Public Humanities Engagement - Nancy Small (PhD requirement)

5965 - Thesis Research II - Michael Edson (MA requirement)​

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 – Realism and Naturalism – Arielle Zibrak 

5964 - Thesis Writing Workshop - Michael Edson

5965 – Thesis Research II – Michael Edson 

Fall 2022           

5000 - Non-Fiction Comics - Cliff Marks

5010 – Rhetoric & Composition: History, Theory, & Practice – Kelly Kinney

5055 – Studies in Narrative and Storytelling – Nancy Small   

5890 – Consumption, Cultures, Markets – Kent Drummond 

5960 – Thesis Research I – Susan Aronstein  

Spring 2022 

5050 – Writing in Public Genres – Arielle Zibrak 

5074 – Studies in Civic Discourse and Public Engagement – Nancy Small 

5360 – U. S. Latino Literature – Margarita Pignataro 

5530 – Modern Critical Theory: Race -Ancient to Modern – Carolyn Anderson 

5965 – Thesis Research II – Scott Henkel 

5990 – Internship 

Fall 2021 

5000 – Getting Medieval – Susan Aronstein 

5010 – Rhetoric & Composition History, Theory, & Practice – Kelly Kinney 

5020 – Author’s Houses – Caroline McCracken-Flesher 

5061 – Classical Rhetoric and Pedagogy – Jason Thompson 

5270 - Histories of Reading - Michael Edson

5960 – Thesis Research I – Julia Obert 

5990 – Internship 

Spring 2021

5000 – Pop Culture – Susan Aronstein 

5280 – Romanticism – Cliff Marks 

5320 – American Women Writers – Arielle Zibrak 

5530 – Affect Theory – Julia Obert 

5965 – Thesis Research II – Scott Henkel 

5990 – 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 – Readings in Literary Theory – Susan Frye

5965 – Thesis Research II – Michael Edson

5061 - Rhetorics of Public Memory - Nancy Small

5000 – Radical Women Rhetors – 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 – Rhetoric and Composition: History, Theory, and Practice – Rick Fisher 

5960 – Thesis Research I – Scott Henkel 

5320 – Realism and Naturalism - Arielle Zibrak    

GWMST 5710 - Feminist Theoretical Perspectives - Bunny Logan   

Spring 2019

5530 – Modern Critical Theory & Practice – Arielle Zibrak

5965 – Thesis Research II – 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