Rhetoric majors take 27 hours of rhetoric courses (including 18 upper-division):
- 3 hours specified Rhetoric & Writing: RHE 306 Rhetoric & Writing
- 3 hours specified upper-division Rhetoric & Writing: RHE 321 Principles of Rhetoric
- 9 hours specified upper-division RHE (3 hours in each): RHE 330C Advanced Studies in Digital Rhetoric, RHE 330D History of Rhetoric, RHE 330E Rhetorical Theory & Analysis
- 12 additional elective hours (including 6 upper-division) in Rhetoric and Writing
To fulfill the 12 elective hours, students in the major select from a wide variety of theory, analysis and applications courses. Below are a few recent examples of courses:
Topics in Professional and Technical Writing for Liberal Arts Majors
Advanced Studies in Digital Rhetoric
- Multimedia Writing
- Rhetoric of Cyberculture
- Knowledge Ecologies
- User-Centered Design
History of Rhetoric
- Classical to Modern Rhetoric
- History of Public Argument
Rhetorical Theory and Analysis
- Democracy in America
- The Rhetoric of Science in Popular Media
- Demagoguery
Advanced Topics in Rhetoric and Writing
- Article Writing
- Proposal Writing
