Minor Requirements
Rhetoric, Writing, and Media Studies
The minor consists of six courses: three core courses, two electives, and an integrating exercise. Elective courses must be chosen from two different academic fields. Students must earn a minimum of C- in any given course to receive credit for the minor.
1. Core Courses—Select three courses from the following list:
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 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 406 Composition Pedagogy
RHET 410 History of Rhetoric: The Modern Reception of Ancient Rhetorics
2. Electives—Select two courses from different academic fields. Appropriate alternative courses may be substituted, subject to the approval of the minor coordinator. 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 Computers, Information, and Society
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: An 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 393 Playwrights Workshop I
3. Integrating Exercise—The integrating exercise is a semester-long writing project focused on rhetoric, writing and/or media studies, under the guidance of a professor in the Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric. There are four options for completing the capstone project:
RHET 395 Academic Internship
RHET 399 Independent Study
RHET 466 Teaching Assistant
Another 300 level course, (either a RHET or another 300 level course) approved by the minor coordinator.
Students should consult with the minor coordinator about these options. In each case, students are required to submit a brief proposal that outlines the activities, readings, meetings, and work that reasonably details the purpose of the capstone project as a semester-long writing project to the coordinator of the rhetoric, writing and media studies minor.