Rhetoric & Composition I

COMP 1 is a sixteen-week First-Year Composition (FYC) course that helps students understand how writing changes across genres, media, and rhetorical situations.

Through assignments aligned with the department’s Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs). Through four scaffolded writing projects and a digital ePortfolio, students develop genre awareness, digital fluency, and rhetorical flexibility while reflecting on their growth as writers.

COMP 1	Description
Literacy Narrative	A five-week project where students turn a personal narrative into a new medium (podcast, video, or comic) to examine how genre, audience, and medium shape rhetoric, followed by a major reflective analysis explaining their choices.
Observation and Value Analysis	A five-week group project where students analyze a digital community’s communication practices to determine what makes a post successful, followed by a major reflective analysis of their positionality and rhetorical decisions.
Making Change	A four-week collaborative project where students propose an inclusive change to a public or institutional space through a multimodal persuasive argument, followed by an individual reflection on rhetoric, collaboration, and revision.
Reflection Overview	A two-week capstone reflection where students analyze their growth as writers and explain how they will transfer their learning to future writing contexts.