Stanford Root

Schedule

Stanford Root

Schedule

PWR 2KDC

Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Stories We Tell: How Narratives Run the World

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. This course asks how is our current techno-information ecology impacting the ways we think, know, relate, and act with each other and with the knowledge we create today? We will use narrative theory to analyze current cultural narratives from among our own interests. A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2kdc For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.

Syllabus for selected term:
View Autumn 2026 Syllabus

Sections

2 Terms
Seminar 1Open
ID: 24313
0 / 17 enrolled
DAYS:Tuesday, Thursday
TIME:9:30 AM – 11:20 AM
LOCATION:160-120
INSTRUCTOR:
DiPirro, Kevin
4units
Seminar 2Open
ID: 24330
0 / 17 enrolled
DAYS:Tuesday, Thursday
TIME:1:30 PM – 3:20 PM
LOCATION:160-125
INSTRUCTOR:
DiPirro, Kevin
4units

PWR 2KDC: Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Stories We Tell: How Narratives Run the World

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. This course asks how is our current techno-information ecology impacting the ways we think, know, relate, and act with each other and with the knowledge we create today? We will use narrative theory to analyze current cultural narratives from among our own interests. A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2kdc For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.

Offered in Autumn 2026, Winter 2027 at Stanford University.

Autumn 2026 sections

  • Seminar — Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM – 3:20 PM — 160-125 — DiPirro, Kevin (Undergrad)
  • Seminar — Tuesday Thursday 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM — 160-120 — DiPirro, Kevin (Undergrad)

Winter 2027 sections

  • Seminar — Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM – 3:20 PM — 160-123 — DiPirro, Kevin (Undergrad)
  • Seminar — Tuesday Thursday 9:30 AM – 11:20 AM — 160-123 — DiPirro, Kevin (Undergrad)

More PWR courses

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

All PWR courses · All departments