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CAT 1 courses (four units, fall quarter) teach critical reading and drafting by examining how culture, art, and technology have intersected in the past. Students must have completed the Entry Level Writing Requirement in order to enroll in CAT 1.

CAT 2 courses (six units, winter quarter) are writing-intensive, foregrounding argumentation, revision, and writing as process by examining case studies of culture, art, and technology interacting in the present moment. Students must have passed CAT 1 in order to enroll in CAT 2.

CAT 3 courses (six units, spring quarter) are writing- and research-intensive, focusing on collaboration, research, and art-making by speculating on how the relationships between culture, art, and technology will be transformed in the future. Students must have passed CAT 2 in order to enroll in CAT 3.

CAT 125 and CAT 125R courses (four units, every quarter) are upper-division writing and communication classes in which students focus on translating skills developed in lower-division writing courses into writing after college and public rhetoric. CAT 125R is the online version of CAT 125; only one of these two courses must be taken to fulfill the upper-division writing requirement. CAT 125GS, the version embedded in Sixth College Global Seminars, may also be taken to satisfy this requirement. Students must have completed the lower-division writing sequence and have upper-division standing in order to enroll in CAT 125 or CAT 125R.

Past Syllabi

For any older syllabus not archived below, please reach out to Jeanne Monahan.

2020-2021

Fall 2020

CAT 1

  • Stanley Chodorow: The Transformation of Cities

  • Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music

  • Phoebe Bronstein: A Hollywood History: Filming America From "Boxing Cats" to Jaws

  • Guillermo Algaze: Origins

CAT 125R

  • Liz Gumm: Mindful Rhetoric

  • Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise Through Digital Media

Winter 2021

CAT 2

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Phoebe Bronstein: To Tell Your Story: Public Rhetoric, Media, and Autobiography

  • Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise Through Digital Media

Spring 2021

CAT 3

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise Through Digital Media

Summer 2021

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Bobby Edwards: Public Rhetoric, Personal Narrative, and the Politics of Voice

2021-2022

Fall 2021

CAT 1

  • Guillermo Algaze: Origins

  • Phoebe Bronstein: Un/Natural Spaces: American Media and Histories of Environmental Representation

  • Liz Gumm: Histories of Literary Creatures

  • Stanley Chodorow: The Transformation of Cities

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise Through Digital Media

Winter 2022

CAT 2

  • Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing

  • Phoebe Bronstein: Media-Made America: America's Small-Screen Geographies

  • Pinar Yoldas: Art and Brain

  • Jennifer Marchisotto: Disability Rhetoric

CAT 124

  • Ryan Moran: Introduction to Practical Public Health

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise Through Digital Media

Spring 2022

CAT 3

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise Through Digital Media

Summer 2022

CAT 1

CAT 2

CAT 124

CAT 124GS

CAT 125GS

CAT 125R

2022-2023

Fall 2022

CAT 1

CAT 3

CAT 125R

Winter 2023

CAT 2

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Spring 2023

CAT 3

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

Summer 2023

CAT 124

CAT 124RS

CAT 125

CAT 125GS

CAT 125R

CAT 125RS

2023-2024

Fall 2023

CAT 1

CAT 90

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

Winter 2024

CAT 2

CAT 2CE

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Spring 2024

CAT 3

CAT 3CE

CAT 87

CAT 90

  • Phoebe Bronstein: Experiential Learning Seminar

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Summer 2024

CAT 124

CAT 124RS

CAT 125

CAT 125GS

  • Babak Rahimi: Buddhism and Posthuman Future

CAT 125R

CAT 125RS

2024-2025

Fall 2024

CAT 1

CAT 90

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Lauryn Smith: Creativitiy: Within and Around

Winter 2025

CAT 2

CAT 2CE

CAT 87

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

  • Lauryn Smith: Creativity: Within and Around

  • Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

  • Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Spring 2025

CAT 3

CAT 3CE

CAT 98

CAT 124

CAT 125

CAT 125R

Summer 2025

CAT 124

CAT 124RS

  • Joe Bigham: Internships in Dublin: Critical Inquiry and Professional Success

CAT 125GS

CAT 125R

CAT 125RS

  • Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication: Narrative, Media, and Performance

Writing Support

There are a variety of writing resources around campus for students to take advantage of. In addition to CAT TAs' office hours, students may visit the Writing Hub in the Teaching and Learning Commons for help with their writing assignments. The Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS) also offers a variety of tutoring programs, including the Language Arts Tutorial Services (LATS).