Programs and Areas
Rhetoric, Composition and Literacy
About Us
Undergraduate Study in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies
Our faculty is committed to the quality of the undergraduate experience. We want to make it intellectually stimulating and useful. Collaboration, not competition, is key in our students' cross-area preparation. Through coursework activities, including a variety of community and university service opportunities, and through extracurricular activities, including conference presentations and Undergraduate English Forum participation, our students learn from and with each other, by working together as researchers, speakers, peers, tutors and as students.Visit the Undergraduate Information pages for details about the undergraduate program, including requirements, areas of speciality, course descriptions, and more.
Graduate Study in Rhetoric & Composition
When considering becoming a part of the graduate program at OSU, the important thing to remember is that research programs in rhetoric, composition, and literacy studies blend together for many of us in provocative ways. When you overhear graduate students describing their work in the hallways of Denney Hall, you might think you're witnessing a game of Twenty Questions: Animal, vegetable, mineral? Rhetoric, composition, literacy studies? The exciting part about being a rhetoric and composition student at Ohio State is that we continually challenge and revise our own ways of categorizing ourselves and our work. Sometimes categorization is an important political strategy (for example, when we are making an argument about composition teachers and must prove that we do, in fact, know the literature well enough to make the argument), and you will certainly have to make some decisions about naming and categorizing yourself when you take your Ph.D. exam and prepare your prospectus. If you join our program, prepare for the exciting but disorienting feeling of allowing yourself not to make any hasty decisions about categorization. You just may be able to write yourself a new category.Visit the Graduate Information pages for complete details about the graduate program.
To find out more
If you are interested in rhetoric and composition, you can consult:Kay Halasek Vice-Chair of Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacty Studies. Office: Denney Hall 402 Phone:292-2468 Email: halasek.1@osu.edu
For more information on undergraduate or graduate study in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies, write or call: Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies, Department of English, 164 W. 17th Avenue, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH 43210-1370. phone: (614) 292-6740 email: rhetcomp@osu.edu
