At both undergraduate and graduate levels–up to and including the PhD–UHM's English Department offers substantive areas of study in Composition and Rhetoric (CompRhet). CompRhet specialists employ critical theories (many also shared with literary and cultural studies) to evaluate discourses that are socially and politically productive in everyday life. At the same time, CompRhet scholars engage in the art of creating (and teaching others how to create) such discourses–on the page, on the screen, and face-to-face: rhetoric has historically functioned as a practical art, one as much interested in producing discourse as examining it. Students studying CompRhet at UHM can expect to learn a range of rhetorical concepts, histories, theories, and strategies-by examining works by Ancient Greek writers like Aristotle and Plato alongside contemporary works informed by indigenous, queer, feminist, digital, speculative, postmodern, ecological, and embodied theories of rhetoric (among many others). Students should also expect to practice working within diverse genres and modalities that include traditional academic forms, creative and hybrid forms, writing for the public, technical and professional writing, multimedia productions for the web (among many others). Finally, students can learn to be effective teachers of writing by studying pedagogical theories and practices–a significant focus of the discipline's work and one reason why many education majors take courses in CompRhet.