English: Rhetoric and Composition

Master

In Muncie (USA)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Muncie (USA)

  • Duration

    Flexible

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Ball State’s master of arts in English with a focus on rhetoric and composition provides students with a broad understanding of rhetorical and writing studies. Students will use technological literacy and digital rhetoric in the classroom as well as in the creation of discourse. They will be able to explore various aspects of rhetoric and composition including the Writing Program, the Writing Center, and the Indiana Writing Project.

As a student in our program, you will:

Investigate the influences of digital and multimedia writing alongside rhetorical history, research, methodologies, and composition pedagogies.
Explore the production, interpretation, and analysis of discourse across genres, media, and historical eras

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Location

Start date

Muncie (USA)
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About this course

As a student in our program, you will understand:

the history of rhetoric and composition
rhetorical strategies and analysis
pedagogy
digital literacies
multimodality
critical thinking

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Subjects

  • Teaching
  • English
  • Composition
  • Rhetoric
  • Project
  • Writing
  • Across Genres
  • Writ Across Genres
  • Read
  • English studies
  • English Teaching
  • English Conversation

Course programme

Master of Arts in English

30-33 credits

Creative writing concentration, 33 credits

Foundation, 3 credits from
  • Read and Writ Across Genres
Directed electives, 6 credits from
  • Teaching in English Studies
  • Practicum in Literary Editing
  • Spec Topics in Creative Writ
  • Reading as Writers
Students will take ENG 605 for 3 credits.

Workshop

Complete 12 credits (4 courses) from this menu of writing workshops. These can be repeated for credit or students can take different workshops in a variety of genres.
  • Workshop Creative Nonfiction
  • Workshop in Fiction Writing
  • Workshop in Poetry Writing
  • Workshop in Screenwriting
Literature
  • Complete two graduate courses in literature
Electives
  • Complete one approved elective
(Students may repeat ENG 610 as a directed elective)

Capstone
  • Creative Project
ENG 605 is to be taken as “Creative Writing” to fulfill the directed elective course requirement.

English Studies concentration, 32 credits

Core requirements
  • Approved courses in English
Research requirements
  • Research in English Studies
  • Research Paper
  • Thesis
ENG electives (electives outside the department are subject to departmental approval)

Literature concentration, 30 credits

Core requirements
  • Research in English Studies
  • Literary Theory
15-21 credits of approved graduate courses in literature including
  • American literature
  • British and World literature Before 1660
  • British and World literature After 1660
  • Approved literature electives
Research requirement
  • Research Paper
  • Thesis
  • Electives
Rhetoric and Composition concentration, 30 credits

Core requirements
  • Research in English Studies
  • Teaching in English Studies
  • Classical Rhetoric
  • Contemporary Theories Comp
Digital Literacies Course
  • Teaching with Technology
  • Writing Technologies
Professional Development Course
  • Indiana Writing Project
  • Writ Program Admin
  • Writing Cntr Res and Admin
  • Writing in the Profession
Approved electives, 9 credits from
  • Teaching with Technology
  • Writing Technologies
  • Writ Program Admin
  • Writing Cntr Res and Admin
  • Seminar in Composition
  • Writing in the Profession
  • Medieval and Early Mod Rhet
  • 19th Century Rhetoric
  • Contemporary Rhetoric
  • Tchng Pract in Hi Ed
Other courses as approved by advisor. Can include either ENG 688 or ENG 689, provided the course has not already been taken to fulfill a core requirement.

Research requirement
  • Research Paper

English: Rhetoric and Composition

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