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English-Rhetoric and Composition - Ph.D. Program Requirements

ENGLISH-RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (30 credits)
Course Title Credits
ENG 75011
 Introduction to the Field of Writing: Theory Research/Practice
 3

75012
 Reading and Interpreting Research on Writing  3
Choose from the following:
 9
  75022 Rhetorical Theory: Greek and Roman (3)
  75027* 
 Role of Composition (3)
  75044* Research Design (3)  
  75051  
 Literacy: Functions, Practices and History (3)  
Choose 15 hours across three of areas A, B, C or D; 6 credit hours must be at the 80000 level 12
Area A
  
  75023
 Rhetorical Theory: 18, 19, 20th Centuries (3)  
  75027* Role of Composition (3)
  
  75057 Semeiotics (3) Domain
  
  85024 Rhetorics and the Construction of Knowledge (3)
  
  85025 
 Theories and Systems of Writing and Representation (3)
  
Area B
  
  73034  Literate Practices and Sociolinguistics (3)
  
  75035  Linguistics for Rhetoricians (3)
  
  85033  
  Rhetorical Nature and Function of Extended Discourse (3)  
Area C
  
  75044* Research Design (3)
  
  85041 Field Research Methods in Writing (3)
  
  85042 Discourse Analysis (3) 
  
  85043  
 Historical Methods in Writing and Rhetoric (3)  
Area D
  
  75052  Writing Activity as Social Practice (3)
  
  75053  Writing Technologies (3)
  
  85054  Studies in Literacy and Community (3)
  
  85055  Nature and Relationship of Non-Academic Literacy (3)  
Elective (from any of the above areas) 3
TOTAL 30**

*courses may be counted only once; as core OR area requirement OR elective

** 30 hours beyond a master's degree

Note: When scheduling permits ENG 75012 should be taken as a prerequisite to 75044; there will be semesters however, when students need to take ENG 75012 and 75044 simultaneously if they want to take the ENG 75044.