WRTC News and Announcements
NEW: WRTC is pleased to announce the implementation of a completely new undergraduate curriculum this upcoming fall semester. You can read the letter to students from the interim chair of the curriculm committee Dr. Traci Zimmerman describing the changes. Please note that current WRTC majors will be able to follow the current, older requirements for the BA degree and the BS degree.
NEW: WRTC announces its end-of-year Reception, honoring outstanding majors, minors, graduate students and faculty, as well as the winners of e-Vision and the Write of Passage Scholarship.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
5-7pm
Festival Ballroom B/C
Open to WRTC majors, minors and guests
$10 per person
Register before Monday, April 16 at
https://quikpayasp.com/jmu/commerce_manager/payer.do?orderType=WRTC_Awards_Banquet
NEW: The third annual WRTC Graduate Student Symposium will be held on Thursday April 5 and Friday April 6. This year's theme is Intercultural Communication. The keynote speaker at the Thursday evening banquet is Dr. Kirk St. Amant, associate professor of Technical and Professional Communication at East Carolina University, and a faculty member with ECU’s Master’s of Arts in International Studies (MAIS) program.
Registration for the Symposium is just $25 ($20 for undergraduates), which includes a Thursday night banquet with keynote address, Friday lunch, and symposium program.
Register by Tuesday, April 3 at
https://quikpayasp.com/jmu/commerce_manager/payer.do?orderType=WRTC_Grad_Symposium
Acclaimed writer Eleanor Henderson returns to James Madison University to read from her work in Transitions in Warren Hall from 2:00-3:30 p.m., on Monday March 26. Professor Henderson taught in the School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication (WRTC) at James Madison University from 2006 to 2010 while completing her first novel. That book, Ten Thousand Saints, made The New York Times' short list of the year's ten best books. A reception for Professor Henderson will follow the reading. Copies of Ten Thousand Saints will be available for purchase in Transitions on the afternoon of the reading. The reading is free and open to the public.
WRTC Events
WRTC extends learning outside the classroom, engages with the university community and celebrates the accomplishments of students and faculty through a number of events
2nd Annual WRTC Awards Banquet
Madison Writing Awards Ceremony
2nd Annual WRTC Graduate Symposium
Writer and journalist Stefan Bechtel discussed his writing at the second annual Friendly City Reading Series