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Rhetoric

The Department of Rhetoric offers courses that complete the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences General Education Program rhetoric component and provides individual instruction in its Writing Center and Speaking Center. It also offers other undergraduate courses and graduate seminars.

Students interested in continued study of rhetoric once they have completed the rhetoric component of the General Education Program may enroll in upper-division rhetoric courses. Many of these are cross-referenced with and may be used toward majors in other academic departments at the University.

Graduate students in many disciplines, including American studies, anthropology, communication studies, comparative literature, classics, English, history, journalism, political science, and others, may find rhetoric courses valuable to their programs of study.

General Education Courses

read with understanding and enjoyment, and write and speak about reading with personal authority and analytical skill;

use writing and speaking to discover and explain, question, and defend positions in a controversy;

take into account fundamental rhetorical concepts such as audience, purpose, and appropriateness in discussing controversies and in devising effective communication.

All undergraduates--including transfer students--must complete the rhetoric component of the General Education Program in one of the following ways:

pass 010:001 Rhetoric I and 010:002 Rhetoric II (total of 8 s.h.);

pass 010:003 Accelerated Rhetoric (4 s.h.);

earn credit through the AP program and pass 010:003 Accelerated Rhetoric (4 s.h.);

transfer 3 s.h. of credit in an expository writing course and pass 010:003 Accelerated Rhetoric (4 s.h.);

transfer 3 s.h. of credit in a public speaking course and pass 010:003 Accelerated Rhetoric (4 s.h.);

transfer 3 s.h. of credit in an expository writing course and 3 s.h. of credit in a public speaking course and pass 010:004 Writing and Reading (3 s.h.); or

transfer 6 s.h. of credit in two expository writing courses and pass 010:006 Speaking and Reading (3 s.h.).

Placement is ordinarily determined by scores on the ACT, SAT, or Advanced Placement English Language Exam, and any available transfer credit. Students who question their placement should bring their degree evaluations and their ACT or SAT scores to the Department of Rhetoric office during registration.

Students who have undergone formal evaluation by Student Disability Services and are found to be learning disabled in reading, writing, or speaking should request reasonable accommodations in order to complete rhetoric. Accommodations may be arranged by Student Disability Services in consultation with the Department of Rhetoric and individual instructors.

Satisfactory completion of rhetoric is a prerequisite for the General Education Program course 08G:001 The Interpretation of Literature.

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