graduate minor in literacy & rhetorical studies
description
requirements
advising
selected
students & sample programs
requirements
Our goal is to encourage students to contribute
to interdisciplinary activity and to create a forum for them and
several dozen faculty members at the University whose research
and teaching emphasize various facets of writing and communication.
By crafting an individualized program of study, including theory,
pedagogy, and research, often in a historical context, students
can complement their disciplinary degree, and thereby open up
new perspectives for their scholarship and teaching.
A Master’s Minor requires three graduate
courses or seminars (9 credits minimum), one from each of the
following categories: literacy theory or practice, including
pedagogy; research methods and practices in one of the areas
of the Minor; and a historical topic, e.g., history of the book,
or rhetoric, or literacy. Students must also write a substantial
paper that emerges from one of the three courses.
Go to master’s planning form
A Doctoral Minor requires a minimum
of four graduate courses or seminars (12 credits minimum). Three
courses must be in each of the categories enumerated above for
the Master’s Minor. In addition, after those three courses have
been completed, students must take either a capstone writing seminar
specifically offered for the Minor, or a seminar that involves
a substantial term paper or a completed dissertation chapter on
a topic related to the Minor. In order to make the Minor interdisciplinary,
no more than one of the three courses at the master's level, or
two of the four courses at the doctoral level, may be from the
student’s home department.
Go to Ph.D. planning form
advising
All minor students are advised by the minor DGS,
Richard Graff. They are also encouraged to speak with Center for Writing director and LRS faculty member, Kirsten Jamsen, as well as other students in the program:
Richard Graff
Director of Graduate Studies, LRS Minor
Associate Professor, Writing Studies
202 E Wesbrook Hall
77 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
graff013@umn.edu
Kirsten Jamsen
Director, Center for Writing
10 Nicholson Hall
216 Pillsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
kjamsen@umn.edu
selected students
& sample programs
Susan Meyers, a Master's student, constructed
her minor around composition, praxis, and gender by taking the
following classes.
Literacy Theory or Practice
Linguistics: Introduction
to Language Acquisition
Research Methods and Practices
Sociolinguistics: Histories of Literacy, Rhetoric, and Composition
Historical Topic
Seminar in Literacy,
Composition, and Rhetoric: Gendered Rhetorics
Sara Berrey focused on American literacies and book history
by taking the following classes:
Literacy Theory or Practice
Women’s Studies: Feminist Pedagogies
Research Methods and Practices
Journalism: Research
Methods in Mass Communication
Historical Topic
English: Seminar in Cultural Theory
and Practice—Material Text
Capstone Seminar
American Studies: Topics in American
Studies—Liberal Virtues
Elizabeth Leer maintained a pedagogical emphasis
taking the following classes:
Literacy Theory or Practice
Women’s Studies: Feminist Pedagogies
Research Methods and Practices
Work, Community,
and Family Education: Foundations of Inquiry
Historical Topic
English: Teaching
Writing in the College Years
Capstone Seminar
English: Seminar in Rhetoric,
Composition, and Literacy Studies
Liza Allen focused on culture and communication,
constructing the minor with the following classes:
Literacy Theory or Practice
English: Introduction
to Composition Research and Theory
Research Methods and Practices
Teaching English
as a Second Language: English for Special Purposes
Historical Topic
Comparative Studies
in Discourse and Society: The Academic-Knowledge Enterprise—Discourse, Practices, Institutions
Capstone Seminar
Rhetoric: Topics in the Rhetoric
of Science and Technology
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