Graduate Rhetoric
Courses
ENG 5043: English
Grammar and Syntax. Historical background of morphology and
syntax related to basic structure and the contributions of the
prescriptive and the descriptive grammarians and the
transformationists. Prerequisites: Bachelor’s degree with
concentration in English and ENG 3303 or its equivalent. Three
lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5163: Sociolinguistics. Investigate relationships between
language and society. Includes linguistic identity of social groups,
social attitudes to language, patterns of national language use,
social varieties of language, social basis of multilingualism, etc.
Employs both empirical and ethnographic methods. Three seminar hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5283: Studies in Literary Criticism. The schools of
criticism focusing on postmodern criticism; the application of some
critical theories to the practice of rhetoric; critical theory in a
given period. Prerequisite: Bachelor’s degree with a concentration
in English. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5343: Rhetoric and Composition: Theory and Practice.
Introduction to theory and research in rhetoric and composition with
special emphasis on preparation for teaching college composition.
Prerequisite: Bachelor’s degree with a concentration in English or
allied field. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 5353: Rhetoric and Composition: Theory and Pedagogy of
Electronic Texts. Rhetorical theories and techniques of teaching
with non-print texts, particular attention to writing, literature,
and interactions between text and image. Prerequisite: ENG 5343.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours. May be repeated for
credit when topics vary.
ENG 5363: Studies in Linguistics. Directed investigation of
problems such as feminism and language, pragmatics, linguistic
discourse analysis, linguistics and composition. May be repeated for
credit when the specific topic of investigation varies. Three
lecture or seminar hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6053: Professional Writing. Publication requirement in
scholarly and technical communications such as articles, proposals,
grants and other professional documents. Prerequisite: Nine hours of
graduate study or permission of the instructor. Three lecture hours
a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6083: Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition.
Design and conduct research through methods such as textual,
ethnographic, historical, and empirical analysis in rhetoric and
composition. Trains students to discriminate among types of
research, examine scholarship critically, and select appropriate
research designs. Seminar and research projects. Three hours a week.
Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6203: History of Rhetoric I. Foundations of classical,
medieval, renaissance, and seventeenth-century rhetoric. Readings in
Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Quintilian, medieval rhetorical handbooks,
schools in the Renaissance, humanism, poetics and rhetoric in the
seventeenth century. Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
ENG 6213: History of Rhetoric II. Historical survey of
rhetoric from the Enlightenment to the present. Readings in Locke,
Vico, contributions of Blair, Campbell, and Whately, pulpit oratory,
elocution, American composition and rhetoric, new perspectives,
contemporary rhetorical strategies, invention an discourse theory.
Three lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
ENG 6313: Studies in Rhetorical Criticism and Discourse Analysis.
Directed investigation of topics in the patterned use of language
such as semiotics, narratology, discourse analysis, and stylistics
as approaches to criticism of written texts and other forms of
symbolic communication. May be repeated for credit when the specific
topic of investigation varies. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
ENG 6323: Studies in Feminist Rhetoric. Directed
investigation of problems in feminism and rhetoric such as feminist
histories of rhetoric, feminist rhetorical theories, feminist
composition pedagogy, feminism and technology, and feminist
epistemology. May be repeated for credit when the specific topic of
investigation varies. Three seminar hours a week. Credit: Three
hours.
ENG 6733: Studies in the Profession of Rhetoric and Composition.
Current theoretical issues and skills needed for professions in
academic and non-academic settings, such as administering writing
programs, designing cross-discipline writing programs, or pursuing
careers in writing and editing in business settings. May be repeated
for credit when topic of investigation varies. Three lecture hours a
week. Credit: Three hours.
Electives for Feminist Studies Requirement
WS 5343: Feminist
Theory. Explores the diversity of feminist theories and their
application to social, political, and intellectual contexts of
women’s lives. Examines original feminist writings from the past
several centuries through contemporary writers. Looks at these
theories in their historical context. Includes consideration of
individual writers. Considered a foundation course in women’s
studies. Three seminar hours a week. Credit: three hours.
WS 5353: Feminist Pedagogy: Perspectives, presentations, and
distance learning. Historical development of feminist writings
on the education of women and the pedagogical uniqueness of teaching
from a feminist perspective. Orients students to distance learning
and on-line technologies for reaching prospective women’s studies
students. Prepares students to conduct community presentations. Two
laboratory and two lecture hours a week. Credit: Three hours.
WS 5363 Feminist Epistemology. Examinations of the origins
and representations of women's ways of knowing and methodological
concerns of feminist inquiry. Three lecture hours a week. Credit:
Three hours.
