Professional Writing and Rhetoric

Overview

Courses in Professional Writing and Rhetoric from University of Southern Indiana offer real-world writing experience, often through service learning projects for regional community partners, while foundational courses in rhetorical and composition theory prepare students to teach writing or to pursue graduate study in rhetoric and composition.

Graduates with Professional Writing and Rhetoric from University of Southern Indiana will:

• Develop close- and critical-reading skills through discussion as well as formal and informal writing about a variety of texts.

• Develop skills in critical reading and analysis through the application of theoretical approaches to a variety of texts. 

• Understand the major socio-historical contexts informing the study of American/British literature.

• Understand the distinctions between major literary genres.

• Understand, at the introductory level, significant theoretical orientations that inform ways of reading texts.

• Develop an understanding of the range of disciplines included in English studies. 

• Understand the terminology of American/British literature through major periods and literary movements.

• Develop as emerging professionals with skills and habits of mind that will help them achieve success in further study in the discipline and the diverse professions they will pursue.  

• Become multi-dimensional readers, thinkers, and writers.

• Develop civic-mindedness and a desire to influence and transform their communities and the world.