Graduate Studies in Literature and Rhetoric/Composition
Description
The Department of English offers an area of study in literature and rhetoric/composition, which allows the student to focus on the history of rhetoric, theories of rhetoric, analysis and production of text, and pedagogy. Complementary courses are offered in the Departments of English and Communication. Careful selection among the complements will encourage an interdisciplinary view of rhetoric. Selections may be made at the Master of Arts level to contribute to one's professional development or at the Doctor of Philosophy level to provide a research field separate from, yet complementary to, fields in literature and language or an area of professional expertise through which pedagogical interests are focused.
Tracks
Track I: at least 30 hours required
Track II: at least 36 hours required
Required Courses (9 hrs.)
- English 501 Bibliography and Methods of Research
OR English 525 Methods of Research in Technical Writing
- English 503 Traditions in Written Rhetoric
- English 510 Rhetoric of Prose Composition
Electives in Rhetoric and Communication (6-9 semester hours)
- ENGL 500, Internship in the College Teaching of English (3)
- ENGL 504, Topics in Materials for the English Classroom (3)
- ENGL 505, Literacy Criticism to 1800 (3)
- ENGL 526, Technical Writing (3)
- ENGL 527, Technical Editing (3)
- ENGL 529, Topics in Rhetoric (3)
- ENGL 530, Theory and Research in Rhetoric and Professional, Technical Writing (3)
- ENGL 600, Topics in the Teaching of College English (3)
- ENGL 603, Seminar: Rhetorical Studies (3)
- COMS 500, The Classical Tradition in Rhetorical Theory (3)
- COMS 502, Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (3)
- COMS 503, The Rhetoric of Controversy (3)
- COMS 504, Methods of Rhetorical Criticism (3)
- COMS 505, Theory and Uses of Argument (3)
- COMS 506, Communication Ethics (3)
- COMS 510, Symbolic Behavior and Communication (3)
- COMS 540, Seminar in Communication and Gender (3)
- COMS 607, Seminar in Persuasion (3)
- COMS 660, 6 Seminar in Rhetoric (3)
Electives in literature (12-15 semester hours)
Track I: 3 hours
Track II: 9 hours
For further information, contact:
Dr. John Schaeffer
Department of English
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115-2863
(815) 753-6614
tb0jds1@corn.cso.niu.edu
Dr. Susan Callahan
Department of English
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115-2863
(815) 753-6610
callsusan@niu.edu
Dr. Phillip Eubanks
Department of English
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115-2863
(815) 753-0188
eubanks1@niu.edu
