The PhD program in Rhetoric and Composition at UTEP focuses on cultural and digital rhetorics and community engagement. Our faculty do work in community literacies, risk communication, health and medical rhetorics, second language pedagogies, intercultural rhetoric, service-learning, and user-experience. Our faculty receive grant support for their research and disseminate their work in respected and peer-reviewed venues.<br><br>The program prepares students for careers in higher education, business, industry, and government. Our graduates have secured tenure-track appointments at a range of institutions, including research-intensive universities, four-year institutions, and community colleges. Several of our most recent graduates work in educational administration.<br><br>Located in a majority Hispanic, Research 1 university on the U.S.-Mexico border, our program regularly engages with the political, cultural, linguistic, and economic richness and complexity of the borderlands.