Gain the skills and tools of effective communication by learning to speak, write, and design effectively while also becoming a discerning critic of the communication practices saturating our world. Choose from a wide variety of speech, writing, and rhetorical theory classes that examine communication in interpersonal, community, civic, academic, professional, and historical contexts.Rhetoric majors have opportunities to participate in study abroad, debate, community writing partnerships, Writing Center and Speaking Center activities, and many cross-campus collaborations designed to help build and document your skills as effective communicators.<br><br>KEY BENEFITS<br>The Department of Writing and Rhetoric is at the cutting edge of undergraduate rhetoric programs with its combination of speech, writing, and theory classes. It also adds employment value as a second major, pairing well with studies in the humanities, social sciences, applied sciences, engineering, and the natural sciences.