Rhetoric in Composition and Communication:
historical contexts and national trends in undergraduate curricula
  return to presentation page                                             Thomas P. Miller tpm@u.arizona.edu

Rhetoric Courses in a Stratified Sample of 100 English and Communications Majors

Communications and English majors in a stratified sample of 100 4-year institutions

What's going on with English majors?  (presentation at CCCC with more research on English majors)

Baccalaureate and Associate Colleges (4%)

 2.       Ohio State University, Marion

The English Department offers a literature major and a Rhetoric and Community Service course. 

 Baccalaureate Colleges, General (22%)  

4.       Bethany College, KS

The Communications Department offers a Survey of Rhetoric course and a Writing, Language, and Rhetoric course.

 5.       Calumet College of St. Joseph, IN

The English and Professional Writing Program offers a first-year English course characterized as Rhetoric and Composition.

 6.       Centenary College, NJ

These rhetoric courses are offered by the English Department and are included in the Communications major: Rhetoric I: The First-Year Experience, Rhetoric II: Introduction to Literature, and Advanced Rhetoric, Grammar and Composition.

 12.       Metropolitan State College of Denver

The Department of Communication Arts and Sciences offers two rhetoric courses: Rhetorical Criticism of Public Address and Classical Rhetoric.

 14.   Missouri Valley College

The Arts and Humanities Division offers an English major and a Speech Communications major. The first-semester English course is a Rhetoric and Composition course, and the Speech Communications major includes a Modern Rhetorical Theory course.

 15.   Missouri Western State College

The Communications and Theater Department offers a Survey of Rhetorical Theory course.

 16. Northwest College, WA

The English Program and the Communications Program each offer a course in Rhetoric and Persuasion.

 19.   Thiel College, PA

The Communication Studies Department offers a course in Rhetorical Theory.

 Liberal Arts Baccalaureate Colleges (15%)  

4.       Coe College, IA

The Department of Rhetoric offers a course in Rhetorical Theory and Practice.

8.  Hanover College, IN

The Communication Department offers courses in Rhetorical Theory and Presidential Rhetoric.

13.   Saint Vincent College and Seminary BAL

The English Department offers a first-year composition course in Language and Rhetoric. 

15.   Virginia Union University

The Communications Department offers a course in Rhetorical Criticism.

Masters Colleges and Universities, 2 (8%)

2.       College of Mount St. Joseph, OH

The Humanities Departments offers a Communications Studies major that includes a Rhetorical Foundations of Human Communication course.

4.       Doane College, NE

The Fine Arts and Humanities Division offers a Speech Communications major that culminates with a course in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism.

6.       Lake Superior State University, MI

The School of English and Speech offers a course in Rhetoric and Composition Theory. 

7.       Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania  

The English Department offers a course in Rhetoric and Writing is offered. 

8.       Newman University, KS

The Communications Department offers a course in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism.

Masters Colleges and Universities, 1 (34%)  

1.  Appalachain State University, NC

The Communication Department offers a course in Theory and Criticism of Rhetorical Communication.

2.       Arkansas Tech University

The Department of Speech, Theatre and Journalism includes a course in Rhetorical Criticism.

4.       Boise State University

The English Department offers a Technical Rhetoric course and also includes the two rhetoric courses from the Communication Department: Rhetorical Theories and Studies in Rhetoric and Public Persuasion. 

5.       Bradley University, IL

The Department of Communication offers a course in the Theory and Literature of Rhetoric.

7.       California State University, San Bernadino CA

The Communications Studies Department offers a course in Contemporary Theories of Rhetoric.

17.   Henderson State University, AR

The Department of English offers a course in Rhetoric and Composition.  The Communications and Theatre Arts Department offers a course in Rhetorical Theory.

20.   Marshall University, WV

The English Department offers a course in Composition and Rhetoric.  The School of Journalism and Mass Communications includes a course in Rhetorical Theory.

21.   Millersville University of Pennsylvania

The Communication and Theatre Department offers a course in Theories of Rhetoric.

 24.   Saint Cloud State University, MN

The English Department offers Introduction to Rhetorical and Analytical Writing, Advanced Rhetorical Writing, Theories of Rhetoric and Writing, and Rhetoric of Style.  .

 30.   University of Illinois, Springfield

The English Program offers a Rhetoric of Rights course is offered. 

 32.   University of Richmond

The Rhetoric and Communication Department offers courses in Rhetoric and Public Address, Classical Rhetoric, Advanced Rhetoric and Public Address, Rhetoric Seminar, Rhetorical Criticism, Political Medieval to Modern Rhetorics, and Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric.

 33.   Wayne State College, NE

The Communication Arts Department offers a course in Communication and Rhetorical Theory.

 34.  Western Kentucky University

The English Department offers courses in the History of Rhetoric and Theories of Rhetoric and Composition.      

Doctoral/Research University, Intensive (7%)

3.       East Carolina University, NC

The School of Communication offers a course in Rhetorical Theory and Criticism.

4.       Indiana University of Pennsylvania

The English Department offers a course in Rhetorical Tradition. 

5.       Montana State University 

The English Department offers two rhetoric courses: History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition and Teaching Composition, Rhetoric and Speech. 

6.  University of Alabama, Huntsville

The Communications Department offers an Introduction to Rhetoric and Communication course, a History of Rhetoric course, and a Rhetorical Criticism course.

7.  University of La Verne, CA

The English Department offers a major and minor in literature and no rhetoric courses.  The Communications Department offers majors in Broadcasting, Communications, and Journalism and one course in rhetoric: Rhetorical Criticism.

 Doctoral/Research University, Extensive (10%)  

 1.       Howard University, DC

The Communication and Culture Department offers a course in African American Rhetoric.

 2.       Indiana University at Bloomington

The Communication and Culture Department offers courses in Rhetorical Criticism; Rhetoric, Law, and Culture; and Rhetoric and History.

 3.       Michigan State University

The Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department offers courses in Rhetoric of American Cultures; Visual Rhetoric for Professional Writers; Rhetoric, Persuasion and Argument; Digital Rhetoric; and American Indian Rhetorics. 

 6.       University of Houston

The School of Communications offers courses in Rhetorical Strategies of Social and Political Campaigns and Rhetoric and Criticism of Public Relations Discourse.

 8.       University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

The English Department offers a Topics in Rhetoric, Composition and Language course.  The Communications Studies Department offers courses in Introduction to Rhetorical Theory, Rhetoric of Feminism, Survey of Rhetorical Theory, and Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism

 9.       University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The English Department offers courses in Rhetoric and Writing, Special Topics in Rhetoric, Introduction to Rhetoric and Composition, and Rhetoric of Legal Discourse.  The School of Communications offers courses in the History of Rhetorical Theory, Studies in Rhetorical History and Criticism, Topics in Rhetorical Theory, Rhetoric of the Women’s Rights Movement to 1930, and Rhetoric of the Contemporary Feminist Movement.

 10.   University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee