修辞与传播设计文学硕士（MA-RCD）
We offer four graduate programs: Master's degrees in Literary Studies, in Rhetoric and Communication Design, and in Experimental Digital Mediaall of which can be taken in the co-op stream, as well as a Doctorate in Language and Literature. MALiterary Studies (LIT), draws on the well known strengths of our department in all major areas of British, American, and Canadian literatures in English. MARhetoric and Communication Design (RCD), is led by internationally renowned faculty with expertise in rhetoric, multimedia design and critique, discourse and text analysis, and professional communication. MAExperimental Digital Media (XDM), anchored in our satellite facility the Critical Media Lab, features teaching and project direction by a core of influential digital scholars and artists. In the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Communication Design (MA-RCD), students anchor their research in the foundational course of rhetorical theory (ENGL 700), and follow a program of study involving such fields as rhetoric, discourse analysis, semiotics, multimedia design and critique, composition pedagogy, and professional writing. MA-RCD graduates are employed in private industry, government, educational org anizations, non-governmental organizations, and in their own businesses, others go on to doctoral programs. In this stream six term-length courses must be completed, and a completed research project.<br><br>An MRP proposal should consist of an overview of the entire project of no more than 500 words, exclusive of bibliography. It should include first-page headings with your name, your supervisor's name, your second-reader's name, and a title. Sections should be clearly signaled with subheads and blank space. Pages should be numbered. The purpose of the document is to solicit feedback from the thesis supervisor, the second reader, and the English Graduate Committee in order to ensure the successful completion of the project. The Graduate Committee must approve the proposal before it can go forward. The proposal should outline the project's major research goals and the corpus of texts or objects to be considered. It should briefly consider some major extant work in the field.