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Frandsen, Danielle Koepke, Joni Marcum, Chloe Smith, Angelyn Sommers, and Madison Williams  \nCourse Description  \nENG 712: Theories in Public Rhetoric & Community Engagement is a required course for MA and PhD students concentrating in Rhetoric, Writing, and Community Engagement at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). The topic for this course rotates depending upon the teaching faculty member’s area of expertise. In the 2020 rotation, Maria opted to theme the course around cultural rhetorics (CR), as an introduction to the theories and methodologies useful to practicing CR. To familiarize students with these practices, two goals structured the course. The first goal was for students to identify the practices and theories defining the field of CR. The second goal was for students to build a CR methodology in relation to their individual scholarly areas of study. As such, this course asked students to move beyond an orientation centered on ‘what is cultural rhetorics?’ to a more methodological orientation that invited them to consider ‘how does one practice cultural rhetorics?’  \nEmbracing the CR pillar of constellation, this course design offers a constellated, multi-vocal approach by several students (Claire, Gitte, Danielle, Chloe, Madison, Joni, and Angelyn) and the instructor (Maria) .1 In what follows, Maria explains the institutional context and theoretical framing of the course. The students reflect on their experiences in the course, which prompts a dialogue on a surprising outcome: how the course prepared students to engage in a range of community projects. We believe that others may read and build upon this course design to consider how they may embrace CR theories and practices to guide community-engaged work.  \nInstitutional Context  \nThere are four graduate concentrations in the English Department at UWM. ENG 712 is a course offered by the Rhetoric, Writing, and Community Engagement (Plan B) concentration. This is a recently revised plan which is grounded in rhetoric and writing studies but also offers students “opportunities to apply that knowledge in pedagogical, professional, and/or community Composition Studies 49.1 (2021): 103–118  \nspaces” (“Graduate Plans: Summaries”) . The curriculum is designed to support MA and PhD students who have wide interests in composition pedagogy, rhetorical theory, digital rhetorics, professional writing, and technical communication. Additionally, Plan B aims to support students who wish to apply their graduate education to higher education but also those with an interest in working in community settings.  \nAs a new faculty member joining Plan B, I (Maria) suggested ENG 712 asa CR course for three reasons: one, my own graduate training centered on CR methodology and pedagogy; two, to my knowledge, an explicit course focused on CR had not been taught in the English Department at UWM; three, over the last few years there has been a growing embrace and demand for graduate students on academic job announcements for scholars whose work aligns with CR. For these reasons, my colleagues supported a CR theme for ENG 712.  \nTheoretical Rationale  \nThe rationale for the course design grew out of my prior graduate experience as a student who took a cultural rhetorics graduate course and as a member of the Cultural Rhetorics Theory Lab.2 These two experiences underscoredan embodied, experiential, and practice-oriented approach to teaching CR. In addition, because I came from a CR graduate program, I developed a series of friendships with my fellow graduate students and mentorship relationships with faculty teaching and researching CR. Therefore, as I designed ENG 712, I consulted some of these colleagues (Phil Bratta, John Gagnon, Les Hutchinson, Katie Manthey) and mentors (Trixie Smith, Ames Hawkins, Julie Lindquist) to talk about the course structure.3  \nI scaff","cbCaissx3YifQs3G","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaissx3YifQs3G","pdf",148750,16,"English","# Course Description\n# Institutional Context\n# Theoretical Rationale\n## Course Design Rationale\n## Four Pillars of Cultural Rhetorics","[{\"question\":\"What are the two main goals of ENG 712 in this course design?\",\"answer\":\"Students identify key practices and theories defining cultural rhetorics, and they build a cultural rhetorics methodology aligned with their individual scholarly areas of study.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the course design use the constellation principle?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes a constellated, multi-vocal approach involving multiple students and the instructor, supported by reflection and dialogue on course outcomes, including community project engagement.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the course’s final-project structure?\",\"answer\":\"The course is scaffolded around a self-proposed final project where students submit a proposal explaining how their project practices cultural rhetorics.\"}]","Course Design - Constellating Community Engagement in a Cultural Rhetorics Seminar | PDF",1792088427]