Students in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication (WRTC) MA program engage with the intersections of language and society through interdisciplinary research, teaching, and community engagement. Drawing from fields including rhetoric, technical communication, and writing studies—and complementing these with students’ chosen areas of specialization—our students and faculty pursue transformative research with local, national, and global significance. We are a community committed to writing, teaching, and research that matters in our communities, classrooms, and disciplines. Students graduate from our program prepared to:
● Plan, conduct, and communicate research that intervenes in the program’s core areas of rhetoric, writing studies, and technical communication.
● Take on leadership roles in academic, professional, scientific, and civic contexts
connecting discourses, identities, and power relations.
● Make justice-oriented contributions as scholar-teachers and professionals.
● Create innovative pedagogies to enable student engagement, agency, and
transformative learning.
● Empower students as writers, teaching their students to skillfully compose texts
that will help them to shape their worlds.