Core and Elective Courses

Appropriate alternative courses may be substituted, subject to the approval of the minor coordinator.

Core Courses

Choose three courses from the following list:

 

RHET 103 College Writing

RHET 125  Writing for a Digital World

RHET 128  Writing and Mindfulness

RHET 130  Visual Rhetorics

RHET 145  Autobiography and Activism

RHET 202  Writing in the Disciplines

RHET 208  Argument and Research Writing

RHET 216  Writing and the Personal Essay

RHET 225  Rhetoric of Broad Street

RHET 226  Writing about Places

RHET 260  What is Rhetoric and Composition

RHET    300   The Art of the Essay

RHET    302   Writing Theories and Practices

RHET    315   Writing in the Public Sphere: Theory and Practice

RHET 320  Queer Rhetorics

RHET 330  Macho Rhetorics

RHET 340  Rhetorics of the Body and Activism

RHET 360  Rhetorics of Law and Violence

RHET 395  Academic Internship

RHET 406  Composition Pedagogy

RHET 410  History of Rhetoric: The Modern Reception of Ancient Rhetorics

 

Elective Courses

Choose two elective courses from different academic fields. A sample list of eligible courses follows:

 

AHIS 105   History of World Cinema

AMST 290  Hip Hop in Film

ANTH 301  Ethnographic Methods and Writing

CPSC 110  Visual Computing

ENGL 288  World Cinema

ENGL 333  Creative Nonfiction

ENGL 334  Advanced Creative Writing: Fiction

ENGL 402  Theories and Methods of Rhetoric and Media Arts

ENGL 470 Film Theory

ENGL 291  Bollywood and Beyond: And Introduction to Popular Cinema

ENGL 270  Intro to Creative Writing

ENGL 265  Intro to Film Studies

ENGL 318  Literacy and Literature

FILM 201   Basic Filmmaking

FILM 309   Film Production

FILM 337   Writing for Film

HIST 299   What is History

ITAL 290    Italian Cinema: Fiction and Film

LING 101   Introduction to Linguistics

MATH 205 Abstraction and Argument

PHIL 205    Symbolic Logic

PHIL 238    Media Philosophy

PHIL 249    Philosophy and Film

PHIL 255    Philosophy of Logic

POLS 241  Empirical Political Methods and Data Analysis

PSYC 221L    Research Design and Analysis

PBPL 202  Law, Argument, and Public Policy

RELG 267  Religion and the Media

SOCL 201L    Research Methods in the Social Sciences

SOCL 241  Mass Media, Popular Culture, and Social Reality

THDN 121  Introduction to Media Studies

THDN 233  Critical Views/Critical Values

THDN 305  Writing for Stage and Screen

THDN 393  Playwrights Workshop I