Writing & Rhetoric 1: Anatomy of a Discipline: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Medicine

4 credits · Undergraduate

PWR 1 courses focus on developing writing and revision strategies for rhetorical analysis and research-based arguments that draw on multiple sources. This course focuses on the discipline of medicine. We'll ask questions like: Can a diagnosis have an argument? Is disease a story we tell ourselves? Does the language of medicine influence experiences of health and illness? A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr1/pwr1td For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office