Why has E306 – an English course – now become RHE 306, taught by the Department of Rhetoric and Writing?
The course prefix “E” was a holdover from the day when the course was, indeed, taught by the English Department. But in June 1993, undergraduate expository writing courses became the responsibility of a new UT division focusing exclusively on writing and rhetoric – the Department of Rhetoric and Writing (DRW). Since then, the DRW has instituted a number of new composition courses, established one of the best writing centers in the country (UWC), and pioneered in the field of electronic technology. Some of the first writing courses to use the World Wide Web were taught in the DRW’s Computer Writing and Research Labs (CWRL). The new RHE prefix for DRW courses appeared for the first time in Fall 2000.
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