Dr. Gries' research is invested in visual rhetoric, circulation studies, new materialisms, research methodologies, and the digital humanities. She is particularly interested in how images circulate, transform, and contribute to collective life and is currently developing digital research methods and data visualization techniques to support such research. She also invested in investigating how people's thoughts, emotions, attitudes, and behaviors are impacted through rhetorical encounters with mundane, everyday objects and is currently developing new materialist rhetorical methods to conduct such research.
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Visual Rhetoric, Rhetoric, Writing Studies, Communication, New Materialisms, Affect Studies, Research Methodologies, Digital Humanities, Circulation Studies, Global Visual Studies,
COMM 5320 - Readings in Rhetoric
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Fall 2018 / Spring 2021
Survey of classical and contemporary readings in rhetoric. Required for doctoral students in communication; optional for master's students.
COMM 5720 - Readings in Communication and Technology
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Spring 2020
Survey of multidisciplinary research that examines various relationships between communication and technology. Students are encouraged to develop critical skills in perceiving assumptions and perspectives that motivate major theories in this area, and to examine how these phenomena have changed over time.
WRTG 1150 - First-Year Writing and Rhetoric
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Spring 2022
Rhetorically informed introduction to college writing. Focuses on rhetorical analysis, argument, inquiry and information literacy. Taught as a writing workshop, the course emphasizes practicing writing strategies for all phases of the writing process. For placement criteria, see the arts and sciences advising office. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours.
WRTG 2090 - Electives in Writing
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Fall 2022
Explores a variety of academic and professional writing genres, ranging from research to technical writing, in intensive workshops. Students read and write extensively across genres. Check with program for semester offerings. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours if the topics are different. Designed for self-motivated students in all majors. Does not fulfill core requirements. Department enforced prereq., WRTG 1150 or equivalent (completion of lower-division writing requirement)
WRTG 2095 - Ideas for Social Change
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Spring 2024
Introduces key concepts and practices central to understanding historical and contemporary social movements in the U.S. Grounded in theories about discourse, bodies, culture, and power, the course is taught through various frameworks such as intersectionality, rhetoric, critical race theory, feminism, queer studies, decolonial studies, and/or LGTBQ+ studies. Students will discover, identify, and analyze social issues of significance to them; practice developing their own visions for social change; and present their visions in public-facing multi-modal genres. Formerly offered as a special topics course.
WRTG 3020 - Topics in Writing
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Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2022 / Summer 2023 / Summer 2024
Through sustained inquiry into a selected topic or issue, students will practice advanced forms of academic writing. Emphasizes analysis, criticism and argument. Taught as a writing seminar, places a premium on substantive, thoughtful revision. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Department enforced prerequisite: WRTG 1150 or equivalent (completion of lower-division writing requirement).
WRTG 3090 - Open Topics in Writing: Advanced
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Fall 2019
Advanced topics course providing intensive, specialized writing instruction in selected topics. Check with the program for semester offerings. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours if the topics are different. Does not fulfill core requirements. Department enforced prerequisite: WRTG 3007 or WRTG 3020 WRTG 3030 or WRTG 3035 or WRTG 3040 or instructor consent required.
WRTG 3930 - Internship in Writing and Rhetoric
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Summer 2023
Provides academically supervised opportunity for undergraduate students to engage in writing and rhetoric as a practical and productive art. Students may work in a variety of organizations (public/government/civic/private) on writing-intensive projects related to their career goals, and thereby connect classroom theory to real-world practice. Prior approval of PWR internship coordinator required.
WRTG 5050 - Graduate Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
Special topics and methods course in composition theory, research and pedagogy. Topics vary by semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours.
