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PWR 2KAA

Writing & Rhetoric 2: Sitcoms to Stand Up: Writing About Comedy and Resistance

UNITS:4
GRADING:Letter (ABCD/NP)
LEVEL:Undergrad
GER:Writing 2

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. Comedy can help us view society through new lenses. In this course, you will have many options for exploring how comedy is used to critique and sometimes disrupt the social context. For a course description see pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2kaa. For all PWR courses see https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.

Syllabus for selected term:
View Spring 2027 Syllabus

Sections

2 Terms
Seminar 1Open
ID: 24993
0 / 17 enrolled
DAYS:Tuesday, Thursday
TIME:9:30 AM – 11:20 AM
LOCATION:TBD
INSTRUCTOR:
Rothschild, Katherine
4units
Seminar 2Open
ID: 24994
0 / 17 enrolled
DAYS:Tuesday, Thursday
TIME:11:30 AM – 1:20 PM
LOCATION:TBD
INSTRUCTOR:
Rothschild, Katherine
4units

PWR 2KAA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Sitcoms to Stand Up: Writing About Comedy and Resistance

4 units · Letter (ABCD/NP) · GER: Writing 2

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. Comedy can help us view society through new lenses. In this course, you will have many options for exploring how comedy is used to critique and sometimes disrupt the social context. For a course description see pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2kaa. For all PWR courses see https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.

Offered in Winter 2027, Spring 2027 at Stanford University.

Winter 2027 sections

  • Seminar — Monday Wednesday 11:30 AM – 1:20 PM — 250-201 — Rothschild, Katherine (Undergrad)

Spring 2027 sections

  • Seminar — Tuesday Thursday 11:30 AM – 1:20 PM — Rothschild, Katherine (Undergrad)
  • Seminar — Tuesday Thursday 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM — Rothschild, Katherine (Undergrad)

More PWR courses

  • PWR 2HT: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Speaking Ironic Truth to Power: The Rhetoric of Satirical Protest
  • PWR 2IY: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Many Faces of Sherlock: Race, Gender, Power, and the Rhetoric of the Detective
  • PWR 2JJ: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Language, Identity and Power
  • PWR 2JJA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Language, Culture and Belonging Across Generations
  • PWR 2JS: Writing & Rhetoric 2: In Science We Trust
  • PWR 2JU: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Haunted: Rhetoric of Ghosts
  • PWR 2KDC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Stories We Tell: Restorying Possible Futures
  • PWR 2KRA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric Unhinged: Writing and Speaking amid Crisis and Emergence
  • PWR 2KSC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Researching the Politics of Pleasure, Love and Joy
  • PWR 2KTA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: A Rebel With A Cause: The Rhetoric of Giving a Damn
  • PWR 2LFA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Nonverbal Communication
  • PWR 2LS: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Writing About Comics

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