PWR Winter Electives 2025
Advanced PWR Electives do not fulfill the WR 1 or WR 2 requirement.
PWR 194BR: The Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Instructor: Becky Richardson
This course will aim to give students a foundation in the rhetoric of health and medicine across major stakeholders—researchers, government, institutions, doctors, patients, journalists, and a general public obsessed with health and wellness.
PWR 91NSC: Introduction to Science Communication
Instructor: Sarah Pittock
You will explore the variety of formats that science communication can take and explore how different audiences shape the way science is communicated. The class will develop a set of best practices for effective science communication.
PWR 99BNSC: Portfolio Preparation II for NSC Students
Instructors: Emily Polk
In this course, students will continue building, revising, and editing a portfolio of documents, slides, posters, podcasts, storymaps, and videos that will demonstrate development as a science communicator.