Past Syllabi

2016-2017

Fall 2016

CAT 125R

Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Winter 2017

CAT 2

Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing
Amelia Glaser: Translation Theory and Practice
Charles Thorpe: Society of the Spectacle
Phoebe Bronstein: A House Is (Not) a Home: Theorizing Race, Gender, and Technology at Home

CAT 124

Job Godino: Public Health Fair

CAT 125

Amanda Solomon: (Re)Presenting Self: Personal Identity Formations and Public Rhetoric
Diane Forbes Berthoud: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication

CAT 125R

Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Spring 2017

CAT 3

Phoebe Bronstein: Art of the Protest: Cultural Production, Protest, and Technologies of Change
Ash Smith: Love and Death in the Anthropocene: Sci-Fi for Speculative Design
Adam Burgasser: Are We Alone?
Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
Joe Hankins: Alien Worlds

CAT 124

Brett Stalbaum: Museum Interactive Exhibits and Technology at Birch Aquarium and Scripps Institute of Oceanography

CAT 125

Diane Forbes Berthoud: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Ash Smith: Storytelling: Strategies of Self/Team, Authenticity, Creativity, and Digital Media

Summer 2017

CAT 124

Vabianna Santos: Documenting Subcultures

CAT 125R

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

2017-2018

Fall 2017

CAT 1

Guillermo Algaze: Origins
Phoebe Bronstein: A Hollywood History: Filming America From "Boxing Cats" to Jaws
David Borgo: Hearing History
Jen Pantoja: Sacred Space Formation
William Tronzo: Visual Experience: A User's Guide to the History of Painting (from Lascaux to Jackson Pollock)
Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music

CAT 124

Jen Pantoja and Cat Crowder: Coaching the Craft of Writing

CAT 125

Joe Cantrell: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

CAT 125R

Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Winter 2018

CAT 2

Michael Trigilio: REMIX: Authorship of the "Found" in "Public" Space
Amelia Glaser: Russia and the US: A Century of Revolutions
Jennifer Pantoja: Religion, Migration, and America
Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing
Phoebe Bronstein: A House Is (Not) a Home: Theorizing Race, Gender, and Technology at Home

CAT 87

Phoebe Bronstein: It's the End of the World As We Know It: Technology, Science, and the Filmic Politics of Disaster

CAT 124

Job Godino: Public Health Fair

CAT 125

Ash Smith: Storytelling: Strategies of Self, Authenticity, Creativity, and Digital Media

CAT 125R

Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Spring 2018

CAT 3

Phoebe Bronstein: Dreams of Electric Sheep and Cyborgs: Technology, Imagination, and the Future on Screen
Amelia Glaser: Translation
Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
Ash Smith: Games We Play: Games, Performance, and Play

CAT 125

Jen Pantoja: Gritty Gumption
Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

CAT 125R

Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Summer 2018

CAT 124

Rachel Hicks and Cristela Garcia-Spitz: Patrolling the Past to Explore the (de)Colonial Gaze

CAT 125R

Ash Smith: Games We Play: Games, Performance, and Play

2018-2019

Fall 2018

CAT 1

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
Amelia Glaser: Revolutions
David Borgo: Music and Globalization
Michael Ano: Visual ReExperience: A Nonlinear Guide to a History of Looking at Things
Jennifer Pantoja: Sacred Space Formation

CAT 125

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Ash Smith: Strategies of Self, Authenticity, Creativity, and Digital Media

CAT 125R

Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric

Winter 2019

CAT 2

Hoang Nguyen: Asian Diasporas in Film and Media
Charles Thorpe: Society of the Spectacle
Liz Gumm: Fiction Into Film: Adaptation as Argumentation
Phoebe Bronstein: Media-Made America: America's Small-Screen Geographies
Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing

CAT 87

Phoebe Bronstein: It's the End of the World As We Know It: Technology, Science, and the Filmic Politics of Disaster

CAT 124

Ryan Moran: Public Health Fair

CAT 125

Michael Ano: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication

CAT 125R

Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric

Spring 2019

CAT 3

Ash Smith: Simulation and Play: The Art and Science of Pretend
Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
Liz Gumm: The Future of Love
Phoebe Bronstein: Dreams of Electric Sheep and Cyborgs: Technology, Imagination, and the Future on Screen

CAT 87

Phoebe Bronstein: Make 'Em Laugh: A Celebration of Funny Ladies From Gilda Radner to Ali Wong

CAT 125

Jennifer Pantoja: Gritty Gumption

CAT 125R

Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric

Summer 2019

CAT 125R

Liz Gumm: Mindful Rhetoric
Ash Smith: Simulation and Play: The Art and Science of Pretend

2019-2020

Fall 2019

CAT 1

Stanley Chodorow: The Transformation of Cities
Guillermo Algaze: Origins
Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
William Tronzo: The History of Painting: A User's Guide (from Lascaux to Jackson Pollock)
Yasmine Kasem: Hidden Bodies: Representations of Muslim Women in History and Media

CAT 87

Eduardo Macagno: Experiencing Space: From Architecture to Neuroscience

CAT 125

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Liz Gumm: Mindful Rhetoric

CAT 125R

Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric

Winter 2020

CAT 2

Guillermo Algaze: Cities and States
Tal Golan: Law of Men and Laws of Nature: Science, Technology, and Law
Liz Gumm: The Contemporary Gothic: Literature of Horror, Mystery, and Grief
Hoang Nguyen: Asian Diasporas in Film and Media
Pinar Yoldas: Art and Brain

CAT 124

Ryan Moran: Public Health Fair

CAT 125

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

CAT 125R

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

Spring 2020

CAT 3

Liz Gumm: Surviving or Thriving: Narratives of Apocalypse and the Aftermath
Amelia Glaser: Translation
Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Media, Technology, and the Future of the Planet

CAT 125

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Jen Marchisotto: Stories of Ourselves: Public Rhetorics of Identity

CAT 125R

Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric

Summer 2020

CAT 1

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

CAT 124

Amrita Kurian: Capitalist Nature

CAT 125R

Phoebe Bronstein: To Tell Your Story: Public Rhetoric, Media, and Autobiography
Jennifer Marchisotto: Stories of Ourselves: Public Rhetorics of Identity

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

Guillermo Algaze: Cities and States
Hoang Nguyen: Asian Diasporas in Film and Media
Liz Gumm: The Contemporary Gothic: Literature of Horror, Mystery, and Grief
Amelia Glaser: Russia and the US

CAT 125

Bill Robertson Geibel: Your Voice in a Globalized World

CAT 125R

Phoebe Bronstein: To Tell Your Story: Public Rhetoric, Media, and Autobiography
Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

Spring 2021

CAT 3

Adam Burgasser: Our Future Climate: Envisioning Our Collective Future
Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Media, Technology, and the Future of the Planet
BT Werner: Queering Climate Change
Matthew Herbst and Lisa Porter: Representation and Rights: Disability in History and the Arts

CAT 125

Liz Gumm: Mindful Rhetoric
Bill Robertson Geibel: Your Voice in a Globalized World

CAT 125R

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

Summer 2021

CAT 124

Jasper Sussman: "Erm-BYAH!-O O O": Singing through Life

CAT 125

Siloh Radovsky: Story of the Body: Public Rhetoric, Communication, and Care
Bill Robertson Geibel: Your Voice in a Globalized World

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

Jasper Sussman: "Erm-BYAH!-O O O": Singing through Life

CAT 125

Bill Robertson Geibel: Your Voice in a Globalized World

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

Chandler Puritty: To Tell Your Story: Public Rhetoric, Media, and Autobiography

CAT 125R

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

Spring 2022

CAT 3

Adam Burgasser: Our Future Climate: Envisioning Our Collective Future
Babak Rahimi: Futurism: Histories and Political Aesthetics of Tomorrow
Phoebe Bronstein and Bill Robertson Geibel: Environmental Futures: Community-Engaged Learning
Jennifer Marchisotto: Subversive Speculation: BIPOC Genre Fiction
Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun

CAT 125

Chandler Puritty: To Tell Your Story: Public Rhetoric, Media, and Autobiography

CAT 125R

Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media

Summer 2022

CAT 1

Liz Popko: A History of Literary Creatures

CAT 2

Guillermo Algaze: Cities and States

CAT 124

Becca Rose: Making Space: Radical Literary Movements and Community-Making through 'Zines and Lit Mags

CAT 124GS

Bill Robertson Geibel: Internships in Dublin: Critical Inquiry and Professional Success

CAT 125GS

Bill Robertson Geibel: Navigating a New Country: Communication and Rhetoric in a Globalized World

CAT 125R

Adriana Tosun: Building the Written Self

2022-2023

Fall 2022

CAT 1

Phoebe Bronstein: Un/Natural Spaces: American Media and Histories of Environmental Representation
Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
Guillermo Algaze: Origins
Jennifer Marchisotto: Twice Upon a Time: Lore, Adaptation, and Identity

CAT 3

Liz Popko: Surviving or Thriving: Narratives of Apocalypse and the Aftermath

CAT 125R

Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity

Winter 2023

CAT 2

Guillermo Algaze: Cities and States
Phoebe Bronstein: Media-Made America: America's Small-Screen Geographies
Jennifer Marchisotto: Disability Rhetoric
Hoang Nguyen: Asian Diasporas in Film and Media

CAT 125

Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Bill Robertson Geibel: Your Voice in a Globalized World
Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity

CAT 125R

Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Spring 2023

CAT 3

Jennifer Marchisotto: Subversive Speculation: BIPOC Genre Fiction
Romain Delavillle: AI Narratives
Liz Popko: How to Survive the Future
Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Community-Engaged Learning

CAT 124

Bill Robertson Geibel: Engaging San Diego: Taking Local Action to Address Global Issues
Amy Knight: Partnerships for Local Climate Action: The UCSD EarthLab Community Station

CAT 125

Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story

CAT 125R

Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Summer 2023

CAT 124

CAT 124RS

Bill Robertson Geibel: Internships in Dublin: Critical Inquiry and Professional Success

CAT 125

Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity

CAT 125GS

Phoebe Bronstein: New Zealand Stories: Travel and Storytelling

CAT 125R

Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Allison Evans: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story

CAT 125RS

Bill Robertson Geibel: Navigating a New Country: Communication and Rhetoric in a Globalized World

2023-2024

Fall 2023

CAT 1

Guillermo Algaze: Origins
Phoebe Bronstein: Now and Then: 1990s Popular Culture and its Twenty-First Century Return
Patrick Patterson: Other Places, Other People, Other Pasts: The Culture, Art, and Technology of Tourism from Then to Now
Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music

CAT 90

Bill Robertson Geibel: Experiential Learning Seminar

CAT 124

CAT 125

Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity
Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric

CAT 125R

Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Winter 2024

CAT 2

Pinar Yoldas: Art and Brain
Phoebe Bronstein: To Infinity and Beyond: Media Narratives of Earth and Outer Space
Jennifer Marchisotto: Disability Rhetoric

CAT 2CE

Liz Popko: Fiction of Psychosocial Experience

CAT 124

Amy Knight: Partnerships for Local Climate Action: The UCSD EarthLab Community Station
Bill Robertson Geibel: Engaging San Diego: Taking Local Action to Address Global Issues

CAT 125

Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric

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

Amelia Glaser: Translation
Matthew Herbst and Lisa Porter: Creative Community: Disability and the Arts
Jennifer Marchisotto: What If?: Fearsome Futures and Possible Presents
Babak Rahimi: Futurism: Histories and Political Aesthetics of Tomorrow

CAT 3CE

Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Community-Engaged Learning

CAT 87

Phoebe Bronstein: Make 'Em Laugh: A Celebration of Funny Ladies From Gilda Radner to Ali Wong

CAT 90

Phoebe Bronstein: Experiential Learning Seminar

CAT 124

Amy Knight: Partnerships for Local Climate Action: The UCSD EarthLab Community Station

CAT 125

Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity
Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric

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

Becca Rose: Making Space: Radical Movements and Community-Making through Independent Publishing

CAT 124RS

Bill Robertson Geibel: Internships in Dublin: Critical Inquiry and Professional Success

CAT 125

Jess Silbaugh-Cowdin: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity

CAT 125GS

Babak Rahimi: Buddhism and Posthuman Future

CAT 125R

Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Phoebe Bronstein: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric

Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication

CAT 125RS

Bill Robertson Geibel: Navigating a New Country: Communication and Rhetoric in a Globalized World

2024-2025

Fall 2024

CAT 1

Phoebe Bronstein: A Hollywood History: Filming America From "Boxing Cats" to Jaws
Guillermo Algaze: The Origins of Culture, Art, and Technology
Patrick Patterson: Other Places, Other People, Other Pasts: The Culture, Art, and Technology of Tourism from Then to Now
Jennifer Marchisotto: Twice Upon a Time: Lore, Adaptation, and Identity

CAT 90

Bill Robertson Geibel: Experiential Learning Seminar

CAT 124

Becca Rose: Make Your Own Magazine: Subversive Publishing, Then and Now

CAT 125

Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: Navigating Social Barriers through Public Rhetoric
Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication: Narrative, Media, and Performance
Maya VanderSchuit: Making Stories Visible: Materiality and Form
Jennifer Marchisotto: In Our Feelings: Emotion and Public Rhetoric
Matthew Irwin: Stories About Place, Memory, and Identity
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Bill Robertson Geibel: Your Voice in a Globalized World

CAT 125R

Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Lauryn Smith: Creativity: Within and Around

Winter 2025

CAT 2

Phoebe Bronstein: To Infinity and Beyond: Media Narratives of Earth and Outer Space
Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing
Jennifer Marchisotto: Disability Rhetoric
Hoang Nguyen: Asian Diasporas in Film and Media

CAT 2CE

Liz Popko: Fiction of Psychosocial Experience

CAT 87

Phoebe Bronstein:
Romain Delaville:

CAT 124

Bill Robertson Geibel:
Kristen Goodrich:

CAT 125

Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity
Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric

CAT 125R

Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Spring 2025

CAT 3

Jennifer Marchisotto: What If?: Fearsome Futures and Possible Presents
Liz Popko: How to Survive the Future
Amelia Glaser: Translation
Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun

CAT 3CE

Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Community-Engaged Learning

CAT 98

Bill Robertson Geibel:

CAT 124

Bill Robertson Geibel: Engaging San Diego: Taking Local Action to Address Global Issues
Becca Rose: Making Space: Radical Literary Movements and Community-Making through 'Zines and Lit Mags

CAT 125

Jennifer Marchisotto: Public Rhetorics of Identity
Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric

CAT 125R

Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

Summer 2025

CAT 124

Bill Robertson Geibel:

CAT 124RS

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

CAT 125GS

Phoebe Bronstein: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online

CAT 125R

Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Olga Lazitski Torres:

Becca Rose: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
Matthew Irwin: Public Rhetoric
Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication

CAT 125RS

Joe Bigham: Navigating a New Country: Communication and Rhetoric in a Globalized World