English: Rhetoric and Composition
Master
In Muncie (USA)
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Muncie (USA)
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Duration
Flexible
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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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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
30-33 credits
Creative writing concentration, 33 credits
Foundation, 3 credits from
- Read and Writ Across Genres
- Teaching in English Studies
- Practicum in Literary Editing
- Spec Topics in Creative Writ
- Reading as Writers
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
- Complete two graduate courses in literature
- Complete one approved elective
Capstone
- Creative Project
English Studies concentration, 32 credits
Core requirements
- Approved courses in English
- Research in English Studies
- Research Paper
- Thesis
Literature concentration, 30 credits
Core requirements
- Research in English Studies
- Literary Theory
- American literature
- British and World literature Before 1660
- British and World literature After 1660
- Approved literature electives
- Research Paper
- Thesis
- Electives
Core requirements
- Research in English Studies
- Teaching in English Studies
- Classical Rhetoric
- Contemporary Theories Comp
- Teaching with Technology
- Writing Technologies
- Indiana Writing Project
- Writ Program Admin
- Writing Cntr Res and Admin
- Writing in the Profession
- 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
Research requirement
- Research Paper
English: Rhetoric and Composition