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Rhetoric What we Study Courses Minor and Majors Faculty Contests Forensics |
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Alex Folkerth
focused his research on environmental rhetoric including how eco-friendly
product promotion constructs problematic human relationships with nature.
Emma Nye is a major in the department.
She is interested in counterpublic movments, graffiti, and how rhetoric can change our world
for the better.
Scott Thompson
completed a Rhetoric major along with a Politics
major. He wrote his honors thesis on the Muslim veil controversy in France.
He completed his studies at Duke Law School and is now a lawyer. |
Rhetoric
Majors and Minor We offer two rhetoric major tracks and a
minor. The Political and Legal Rhetoric Major The
Rhetoric Studies Major
This is the
track for students with interest in Rhetoric broadly or whose interest does
not fit the Political and Legal Rhetoric track. A student who enters Whitman
without any prior college-level coursework in rhetoric studies will complete
34 credits to fulfill the requirements for this track including 387 (junior
seminar on rhetorical criticism) and 491/498 (thesis) with up to 8 credits of
200 level or higher courses outside of the department fitting to the
student’s rhetorical studies that are pre-approved by the student’s major
advisor. The
Political and Legal Rhetoric Major
This track is for students specifically
interested in political argument, legal rhetoric, public policy advocacy,
argument in international relations, and political campaign strategies. A
student who enters Whitman without any prior college-level coursework in
rhetoric studies will complete 34 credits to fulfill the requirements for
this track including at least three 25x or 35x political and legal rhetoric
courses, 387 (junior seminar on rhetorical criticism), and 491/498 (thesis
focused on political and/or legal rhetoric). Students may take up to 8
credits of 200 level or higher courses outside of the department, typically
in politics, fitting to the student’s political and legal rhetoric interests
that are pre-approved by the student’s major advisor. For both Major Tracks:•
Junior
Seminar: All majors will complete the 387 Rhetorical Criticism course their junior year although, with major advisor approval,
it may be taken as a senior (typically because of study abroad). •
Senior
Thesis: All majors complete and orally defend a thesis for the 491/498 course
during fall semester of their senior year. •
Students
may not count more than 4 credits of Rhetoric 121, 221, or 222 towards either
major track. •
Department
policy does not allow a P-D-F grade option for courses within the major
tracks. •
RFS
and RMS courses taken prior to Fall 2012 shall count for either major including
that the RFS/RMS 387 course shall count for Rhetoric 387; RFS/RMS 250 shall
count as 245; RFS/RMS 388 shall count as Rhetoric 354; and RFS/RMS 379 shall
count for 349 if it counted for cultural pluralism or environmental studies;
359 if it was cross-listed with politics but not environmental studies. •
Students
may not receive credit for taking both the Rhetoric and RMS/RFS versions of
the same class for credit, except for 221, 222, 401, and 402. The
Rhetoric Studies Minor
The Rhetoric Studies minor requires a
minimum of 20 credits in rhetoric with up to 4 credits of 200 level or higher
courses outside of the department fitting to the student's rhetorical studies
that are pre-approved by the student's minor advisor. •
Students
may not count more than 4 credits of Rhetoric 121, 221, or 222 toward the
minor. •
Department
policy does not allow a P-D-F grade option for courses within the minor. |
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