该系提供修辞和写作研究文学硕士学位。我们欢迎来自不同背景的学生，他们的兴趣包括修辞学的理论和历史，专业和技术写作，写作教学，新媒体以及文化，政治和社会差异的修辞学。硕士课程为来自各种教育和专业背景的学生提供了深入研究书面，口头和视觉语言及其与知识，文化和专业实践的关系的机会。课程研究了说服力的资源以及在历史上对其进行理论化的方式，写作理论和教学法以及争论所依据的社会，政治和工作场所框架。该计划为学生做好了修辞学的高级学习的准备，这些职业包括大学和中学的教学，课程设计，技术，科学和专业写作，公共关系，企业传
The department offers a Master of Arts Degree in Rhetoric and Writing Studies. We welcome students from a variety of backgrounds whose interests include theories and histories of rhetoric, professional and technical writing, the teaching of writing, new media, and rhetorics of culture, politics and social difference. The M.A. program offers students an opportunity for intensive study of written, spoken and visual language and their relationship to knowledge, culture, and professional practice. Courses inquire into the resources of persuasion and ways in which these have been theorized historically, writing theory and pedagogy, and the social, political, and workplace frameworks in which arguments are situated. The program prepares students for advanced study in rhetoric and such careers as teaching at the college and secondary levels, curriculum design, technical, scientific and professional writing, public relations, corporate communication and training, publishing, document and information design, educational technology, web development, medical informatics and others.