CAS137H - Rhetoric and Civic Life I
Course: CAS137H (Rhetoric and Civic Life I) in CAS department at Pennsylvania State University.
Credit Hours: 3 • Academic Level: first-year undergraduate course
Course Requirements: No prerequisites required - suitable for beginning students
Future Opportunities: Unlocks 123 advanced courses for further study
Course Type: Foundation course - forms the base for multiple advanced topics
Part of the CAS curriculum at Pennsylvania State University, helping students progress through degree requirements.
Courses unlocked by CAS137H
- AMST472 - Topics in American Literature
- CMLIT453 - Narrative Theory: Film and Literature
- ENGL202H - Effective Writing: Honors
- ENGL430 - The American Renaissance
- ENGL452 - The Victorians
- ENGL464M - Honors Seminar in English: Multicultural
- ENGL491 - The Capstone Course in Professional Writing
- ENGL492 - American Women Writers
- JST427 - Topics in Jewish American Literature
- FIN301H - Corporation Finance (Honors)
- FIN301 - Corporation Finance
- BIOL403 - Biological Writing and Communication for Research
- CAS138T - Rhetoric and Civic Life II
- CAS490 - Peer Tutoring for Public Speaking
- CAS222N - Foundations: Civic and Community Engagement
- CAS452 - Organizational Communication Theory and Research
- CAS452W - Organizational Communication Theory and Research
- CED430W - Principles of Community Economic Development
- ENGL138T - Rhetoric and Civic Life II
- ENGL476 - Arab American Literature
- ENGL413 - Advanced Poetry Writing
- ENGL426 - Chicana and Chicano Cultural Production: Literature, Film, Music
- ENGL434 - Topics in American Literature
- ENGL469 - Slavery and the Literary Imagination
- ENGL450 - The Romantics
- ENGL459 - Writing Palestine-Israel
- GEOG437W - Energy Geographies and Policy
- JST459 - Writing Palestine-Israel
- ENGL443 - The English Renaissance
- ENGL401 - Studies in Genre
- ENGL433 - The American Novel: 1900-1945
- ENGL444 - Shakespeare
- ENGL401W - Creative Writing Theory
- ENGL402 - Literature and Society
- AFAM466 - African American Novel I
- ENGL466 - African American Novel I
- WMNST490 - Women Writers and Their Worlds
- WMNST491 - American Women Writers
- ENGL419 - Advanced Business Writing
- ENGL445 - Shakespeare's Contemporaries
- ENGL446 - Milton
- ENGL400 - Authors, Texts, Contexts
- ENGL474 - Issues in Rhetoric and Composition
- ENGL475 - Comics Studies
- ENGL202B - Effective Writing: Writing in the Humanities
- ENGL478 - Grant Writing
- ENGL480 - Communication Design for Writers
- ENGL416 - Science Writing
- ENGL417 - The Editorial Process
- ENGL421 - Advanced Expository Writing
- ENGL436 - American Fiction Since 1945
- ENGL437 - The Poet in America
- ENGL439 - American Nonfiction Prose
- AFAM467 - African American Novel II
- AFAM468 - African American Poetry
- ENGL440 - Studies in Shakespeare
- ENGL442 - Medieval English Literature
- ENGL451 - Literary Modernism in English
- ENGL487W - Senior Seminar
- ENGL490 - Women Writers and Their Worlds
- AMST475 - Black American Writers
- AMST476 - American Women Writers
- ASTRO237W - Astronomy Communications
- CAS426W - Communication Ethics
- CAS450W - Group Communication Theory and Research
- CED431W - Economic Analysis of Environmental and Resource Policies
- ENGL447 - The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
- ENGL412 - Advanced Fiction Writing
- ENGL202A - Effective Writing: Writing in the Social Sciences
- ENGL202D - Effective Writing: Business Writing
- ENGL418 - Advanced Technical Writing and Editing
- ENGL404 - Mapping Identity, Difference, and Place
- ENGL405 - Taking Shakespeare From Page to Stage
- ENGL407 - History of the English Language
- ENGL471 - Rhetorical Traditions
- ENGL431 - Black American Writers
- ENGL432 - The American Novel to 1900
- ENGL435 - The American Short Story
- ENGL453 - Victorian Novel
- ENGL454 - Modern British and Irish Drama
- ENGL472 - Current Theories of Writing and Reading
- ENGL456 - British Fiction, 1900-1945
- ENGL457 - British Fiction Since 1945
- ENGL458 - Twentieth-Century Poetry
- ENGL460 - Business and Literature
- ENGL462 - Reading Black, Reading Feminist
- ENGL473 - Rhetorical Approaches to Discourse
- ENGL465 - Humanity in Computerized Society
- ENGL467 - African American Novel II
- ENGL468 - African American Poetry
- ENGL481 - Literary Theory: Historical Perspectives
- ENGL482 - Contemporary Literary Theory and Practice
- ENGL482W - Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory
- ENGL483 - Problems in Critical Theory and Practice
- GEOG428W - Political Geography
- PLSC409 - Democratic Deliberation
- WMNST462 - Reading Black, Reading Feminist
- AFAM463 - African American Autobiography
- AFAM469 - Slavery and the Literary Imagination
- AMST470 - The American Renaissance
- AYFCE211N - Foundations: Civic and Community Engagement
- CIVCM211N - Foundations: Civic and Community Engagement
- CAS214W - Speech Writing
- CAS409 - Democratic Deliberation
- COMM453 - Narrative Theory: Film and Literature
- CED420W - Gender and International Development
- ENGL250 - Peer Tutoring in Writing
- ENGL403 - Literature and Culture
- ENGL470 - Rhetorical Theory and Practice
- ENGL202C - Effective Writing: Technical Writing
- ENGL448 - The English Novel to Jane Austen
- ENGL183 - Adventure Literature
- ENGL486 - The World Novel in English
- ENGL420 - Writing for the Web
- ENGL427 - Topics in Jewish American Literature
- ENGL441 - Chaucer
- ENGL449M - Honors Seminar in English: Pre-1800s literature
- ENGL455 - Topics in British Literature
- ENGL463 - African American Autobiography
- GEOG426W - Gendered Worlds
- LTNST426 - Chicana and Chicano Cultural Production: Literature, Film, Music
- WMNST420W - Gender and International Development
- WMNST426W - Gendered Worlds
Academic Planning at Pennsylvania State University
Students planning CAS137H at Pennsylvania State University should complete 0 prerequisites before enrollment.
Future Pathways: Completing CAS137H enables enrollment in 123 advanced courses for further study
This first-year course at Pennsylvania State University integrates into structured degree pathways for CAS programs, supporting timely graduation and academic progression.