Zita Hüsing, Ph.D.

Classes Designed and Taught

Overview of Selected Classes

Undergraduate courses

Multimodal Composition, ENGL 1102: A.I. in Multimodal Science Fiction– Envisioning Our Futures (2 sections, Fall 2023) 

  • Focus on how stories around A.I. can connect us as thinkers, writers, multimodal communicators
  • Teaches multimodal communication, process and rhetoric 
  • Improve students’ written, oral, visual, electronic, and non-verbal communication skills

Multimodal Composition, ENGL 1102: ‘Pop-Comm’: Multimodal Communication in U.S. Popular Culture (3 sections, Spring 2023) 

  • Explores and critically inquires how texts from U.S. popular culture undertake multimodal communication 
  • Teaches multimodal communication, process and rhetoric 
  • Improve students’ written, oral, visual, electronic, and non-verbal communication skills

Multimodal Composition, ENGL 1102: Science Fiction Franchises – Exploring Communication in Popular Intertexts (3 sections, Fall 2022, 1 section Summer 2023)

  • Focus on the possibility of Science Fiction franchises to connect us as thinkers, writers, and communicators
  • Teaches multimodal communication, process and rhetoric 
  • Improve students’ written, oral, visual, electronic, and non-verbal communication skills

Undergraduate courses at Louisiana State University

Rhetoric and Arguments, ENGL 2000: The Digital World, (1 section, hybrid format, Spring 2022)

  • Engages critically with different kinds of writing produced with digital technologies (social media, websites, streaming services, and blogs).
  • Helps students develop their ability to conduct research, to compose writing and to consider how new media presents and uses arguments and stances

Major American Authors ENGL 2270, General Education Course (1 section, hybrid format, Spring 2021)

  • American literature survey (early American literature – present)
  • Students practice close reading and build interpretive skills 
  • Students interpret texts within a broader discursive tradition and cultural and historical contexts

Rhetoric and Composition, ENGL 1001, Introductory Writing Couse (1 section per semester, online, in-person formats, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021)

  • Teaches critical thinking, composing processes, rhetorical knowledge, collaborative writing, and conventions
  • Students learn effective communication of complex knowledge and ideas through written, oral, visual, and technological media

Rhetoric and Arguments, ENGL 2000, Introductory Writing Course (1 section per semester, online, in-person formats, Spring 2019, Spring 2020)

  • Teaches critical thinking, composing processes, rhetorical knowledge, collaborative writing, and conventions 
  • Students develop and support claims while refining their abilities to conduct research