Fall 2011: Welcome students

Welcome to the 2011-2012 school year. At this point, we have 49 officially declared majors and 17 officially declared minors. This has exceeded our predictions when we proposed the major several years ago. We will have an informational meeting for students on Tuesday, September 27th, at noon in the Gold Room, Oakland Center. A number of the faculty members will be there to talk about the major and minor, the tracks, the capstone, and course scheduling cycle so that students can better schedule their plans of study. Hopefully, we can get this done fairly quickly so that we can take suggestions on course offerings, convenient times for courses, and course content. We are currently working on course cycling and the 2012-2013 schedule, so this is the chance for students to put in requests as a collective for specific courses.

We've managed to ramp up our course offerings and are beginning to stabilize our course rotations. We have a number of exciting new courses in each track, including Introduction to Composition Studies (Discipline track), Writing for New Media (New Media track), Video Game Studies (New Media track), and Science Writing (Professional Writing track). If you haven't yet finalized your registration for winter, you can see the course list and current enrollments here: http://www2.oakland.edu/wrt/schedule.cfm?termcode=201210 . There are still openings in 232 (Writing for New Media), 329 (Introduction to Composition Studies), 334 (Video Game Studies), 335 (Writing for HR), 340 (Issues in WRT/RHT studies), 370 (Research Methods), 381 (Science Writing), 382 (Business Writing), and 386 (Creative Nonfiction - Mt. Clemens Campus).

Please put this meeting on your calendar and invite others that you know who are interested in WRT. The more people we have at the meeting, the better understanding we can get of the needs and desires of our majors.

Be sure to join our social media groups:

Department Sites

Department of Writing and Rhetoric Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/19700616745/
Department of Writing and Rhetoric Twitter stream: http://twitter.com/#!/ouwrt
Department of Writing and Rhetoric Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/OUWritingDepartment

Related Sites

Writing and Rhetoric Club Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=197323682649
Lori Ostergaard Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/LoriOstergaard
Timothy Briggs Youtube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/TimothyJBriggs
Rochester Oral History Archive Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ROHAProject

Good luck this semester!

Dr. Kitchens