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RCTPHD - Rhetoric, Composition and Teaching of English

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EnglishGraduate Degree SeekingPHD - Doctor of Philosophy

Overview

Program Requirements

Completion requirement

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Completion requirement

Common Curriculum: 

  • course: Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition (3)

  • course: Preceptorship** (3) Note: Preceptorship supports GTAs who are teaching in the Writing Program for the first time

  • course: Professional Studies - Qualifying Portfolio Workshop (3)

  • course: Contemporary Rhetorical Theories (3)

  • course: Teaching of Composition (3)

Additional Course Requirements: 

  • Specialized Methods: student’s choice of one additional methods course, offered either in RCTE or in another program (3)

  • Histories: student’s choice of one class focused on histories, offered by RCTE faculty (3)

  • course: Studies in Rhetoric and Composition (3)

  • Dissertation: 18 units

Other electives (24):

  • 9 units must be taken in RCTE

  • remaining 15 credits may be taken in any subject area offered at the graduate level anywhere on campus or transferred in;

  • may be applied to the Immersive Cultural Requirement (see the ICR Proposal for details);

  • may be applied to a minor. All PhD students must declare a minor and indicate the courses used to fulfill that minor in GradPath. It is permitted to minor in a different track within the same field. You can declare RCTE as your minor as well.

Completion requirement

Students can apply transfer courses from their MA to fulfill the electives requirement. Alternatively, students can take graduate courses both inside and outside of the English Department found in UAccess Catalog to fulfill their elective requirements upon approval from the RCTE Program Director.

Completion requirement

Students are required to pass Comprehensive Examinations and write a dissertation acceptable to the Department of English.

Completion requirement

A minor is required; students may select from any minor subject area offered. Minors are typically 9-12 units.

All PhD students must declare a minor and will need to indicate the courses used to fulfill that minor to the Graduate College. It is permitted to minor in a different track within the same field. Students can declare RCTE as their minor as well. A member of the minor department or program must serve on the student's comprehensive examination committee and approve the units taken for fulfillment of the minor.

Completion requirement