Summer 2009 POROI Courses
Topics in Mass Communication Scholarship
Subtitle: Digital Public Sphere
6 week session begining June 23rd-July 31st
This is a course that focuses on the transformation of rhetorical inquiry to the digital public sphere. The aim of the course is to develop strategies of critical inquiry into interactive spaces providing venues of public participation, rhetorical movement, and social change. The course networks a dozen nodes of discussion in order to interlace topics of critical inquiry. As fitting for the subject, the course is composed of numerous, short readings (rather than singular in-depth theories). The aim is to engage discussion in topics related to communicative practices but given new visibility, trajectories, circulation and strategic power due to location in virtual space.
Medical Writing and Publishing
A seminar course on the bolts and nuts of medical writing, the various industries involving medical writing, styles of medical writing, and techniques for improving individual medical writing skills. The seminars will act out practical situations such as writing a paper and/or grant proposal using your own research and sample texts from the medical publishing industry. The course is intended for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the biomedical field as well as medical students. All students in research programs associated with the College of Medicine are welcome to enroll as well. Graduate students in rhetoric, journalism, non-fiction writing, and communication studies may also be interested in the course. Zlatko Anguelov, the instructor, holds an MD and an MA in medical sociology. He is an experienced medical journalist, medical writer, and non-fiction writer who is currently an editor for UI health Care.