PWR courses at Stanford

86 PWR courses in Stanford’s catalog, with ratings and hours per week from real student evaluations.

• PWR 1AGA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of TV Criticism4-4 units
• PWR 1AH: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of American Multicultural Experience4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1CAA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Influencers, Filters, and Algorithms: Rhetorics of Online Persuasion4-4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1CK: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Investigating the News: Journalism, Technology & the Future4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1CWA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Ban that Book! Rhetorics of Free Speech and Censorship4-4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• PWR 1EE: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Prowling Toward Certainty: Exploration as Argument4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1EI: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Watch Now: Rhetorics of Film and Television4-4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1HK: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Food Values: The Rhetoric of What and How We Eat4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1HT: Writing & Rhetoric 1: What Are You, Anyway? The Rhetorics of Ethnic and Racial Identity4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1IYB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Oceans of Rhetoric4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1JJA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Linguistic Diversity and Language Change4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• PWR 1JSA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Plants4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• PWR 1KAA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Forward Momentum: Writing About Movement(s)4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 1KDA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Digital Stories: Great Reads, Podcasts, and Instagram4-4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1KR: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Trust, Rhetoric, and Writing4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 1KSC: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Health, Well-Being and the Arts4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1KTB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Legal Rhetoric, Research, and Writing4-4 units · 3.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1LF: Writing & Rhetoric 1: #NoBodyIsDisposable: The Rhetoric of Disability4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1LS: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Beyond the Achievement Gap: Writing about Education4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• PWR 1MA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Power of Words: Rhetoric of Social and Technological Changes4-4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1MGE: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Numbers and Metrics: Rhetoric of Calculation and Quantification4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1MO: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Imagining Technology: The Rhetoric of Humans and Machines4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1NCA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: California, Dream or Mirage?: Writing about the Golden State4-4 units
• PWR 1NFA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: From Paper to GenAI: Exploring Changes in Research and Cognition4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• PWR 1NK: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Rhetorics of Childhood4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1PT: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Who Speaks for the Past: The Rhetoric of Public Memory4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1RE: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetorics of Meritocracy and Deservedness in an Unequal Society4-4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1RHC: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Composition4-4 units
• PWR 1RLA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Stuff of Nightmares: The Rhetoric of Fear4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1RW: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Writing for Liberation: The Rhetoric of Antiracism4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• PWR 1SBB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Robots and Artificial Intelligence4-4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
• PWR 1SNB: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Wellness: Social Context of Mental & Physical Health4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 12 hrs/wk
• PWR 1SO: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Place, Space, and Identity4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 1ST: Writing & Rhetoric 1: The Rhetoric of Biomedical Ethics4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 1TD: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Anatomy of a Discipline: Rhetorics of Health, Illness, and Medicine4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 1VKA: Writing & Rhetoric 1: Memoir, Autobiography, and Autofiction: the Rhetoric of Self-Representation4-4 units
• PWR 1WS: PWR 1 Studio1-1 units · 5.0/5 rating · 2 hrs/wk
• PWR 1WW: PWR 1 Workshop1-1 units · 4.0/5 rating · 2 hrs/wk
• PWR 2AG: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Film Criticism4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2AH: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Ethnic Narratives and the Rhetoric of American Identity4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 2BRC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Re-Make It Anew: The Rhetoric of Adapting, Rebooting, and Remaking4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2CKA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric of Distraction4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2CWC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Digital Gurus: Influencer Culture Rhetoric & Ramifications4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2EE: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Once Upon a Cause: The Rhetoric of Picture Books4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 2EI: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Knock Off: Rhetorics of Copying, Memeing, Modding and Piracy4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 11 hrs/wk
• PWR 2EPD: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Trekkers, Trampers, and Travelers: Storytelling On The World's Trails4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 2GMI: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Our Future is Each Other: Collaborative Rhetorics4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 2GMJ: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Why Write, Still4-4 units
• PWR 2HKA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: In the Moment: The Rhetoric of Time4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 2HLA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Decoding Academic Persuasion: How Researchers Convince Audiences4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 13 hrs/wk
• PWR 2HT: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Speaking Ironic Truth to Power: The Rhetoric of Satirical Protest4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2IY: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Many Faces of Sherlock: Race, Gender, Power, and the Rhetoric of the Detective4-4 units · 4.8/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2JJ: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Language, Identity and Power4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2JS: Writing & Rhetoric 2: In Science We Trust4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2KAA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Sitcoms to Stand Up: Writing About Comedy and Resistance4-4 units
• PWR 2KDC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Stories We Tell: Restorying Possible Futures4-4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2KRA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric Unhinged: Writing and Speaking amid Crisis and Emergence4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2KSC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Researching the Politics of Pleasure, Love and Joy4-4 units · 4.3/5 rating · 9 hrs/wk
• PWR 2KTA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: A Rebel With A Cause: The Rhetoric of Giving a Damn4-4 units
• PWR 2LFA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Nonverbal Communication4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2LS: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Writing About Comics4-4 units
• PWR 2LSA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Writing About Cities4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2MAA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Generative AI4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2MGD: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Silicon Valley and the Future of Work: Rhetoric of Labor and Tech4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2NCA: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Discovering the Past: The Rhetoric of Archival Exploration4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2NK: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Speaking and Writing for a Better World4-4 units
• PWR 2PT: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Bearing Witness4-4 units
• PWR 2RE: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Good Taste4-4 units
• PWR 2RL: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of the Natural4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2RW: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Not Part but Whole: Writing Mixed Race Identity4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 2SM: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Dirty Pretty Things: The Rhetoric of Objects and Objectification4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2SO: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Imperfection4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2TD: Writing and Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Global Health4-4 units · 4.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 2VK: Writing & Rhetoric 2: Framing Reality: The Rhetoric of Documentaries4-4 units · 4.5/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 5: Independent Writing1-5 units
• PWR 91CW: Intermediate Writing: Seeing is Believing: The Power of Persuasive Data Stories3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 10 hrs/wk
• PWR 91JS: Stanford Science Podcast (EARTHSYS 157)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 91NSC: Intermediate Writing: Introduction to Science Communication4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 91RW: Ethnofuturist Rhetorics: Imagining the Future of Race (CSRE 91RW)3-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• PWR 99ANCR: NCR Portfolio Preparation I1-1 units · 5.0/5 rating · 4 hrs/wk
• PWR 99ANSC: NSC Portfolio Preparation I1-1 units · 4.8/5 rating · 3 hrs/wk
• PWR 99BNCR: NCR Portfolio Preparation II2-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 8 hrs/wk
• PWR 99BNSC: NSC Portfolio Preparation II2-2 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• PWR 194NCR: Topics in Writing & Rhetoric: Introduction to Cultural Rhetorics (CSRE 194NCR)4-4 units · 5.0/5 rating · 6 hrs/wk
• PWR 195: Writing Center Peer Tutor Seminar (PWR 295)2-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk
• PWR 295: Writing Center Peer Tutor Seminar (PWR 195)2-3 units · 5.0/5 rating · 5 hrs/wk

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