In 1995, Jay Heinrichs published a piece in Harvard Magazine titled “How Harvard Destroyed Rhetoric.” The article criticized Harvard’s undergraduate curriculum, which “doesn’t offer a single course in ...

Students who complain about the rigors of rhetoric may soon be quieted by changes UI officials are implementing. The Dean Student Advisory Committee recently persuaded officials to begin offering only ...

The list below offers a representative sample of the courses you can expect in the study of rhetoric and interpersonal communication at DePauw. From theoretical foundations to practical experiences, ...

The following list is by Term. The course offerings below are for the Summer 2019 semester. Check the current Course Schedule. This course involves daily writing exercises, some reading, and the ...

The PWR has enthusiastically taught in UCB’s residential learning environments from their inception. Through our participation in the A&S core, and as integral to the first-year experience, writing ...

Rhetoric and writing studies students find employment in a variety of fields, including web authoring, copywriting, speech writing, technical writing, grant writing, science writing, journalism, ...

Although the oldest discipline, rhetoric may be the least understood. Aristotle defined rhetoric as “the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion.” In professor ...

Last week, in my final rhetoric class of the semester, we did an end-of-term exercise that I’ve assigned for the past few years. I use notecards to write a series of prompts meant to encourage ...