University of Winnipeg

Course Description

• In addition to discipline-specific writing courses at the introductory level, the Department offers a 3-Year BA with a Major in Rhetoric and Communications
• This program emphasizes the interpretation, evaluation, production, and precise editing of messages for a range of audiences, media, and purposes
• Students in the Major practice writing in a variety of genres and read contemporary non-fiction, analyze visual and verbal arguments, trace the impact of print and electronic media on western culture, and—through the study of theory and close attention to textual practices—examine how ideology imprints itself on discourse
• Students with a BA in Rhetoric and Communications can enter graduate studies in such fields as Communications, Composition, Media Studies, and Rhetoric
• Graduates are also well prepared for public- and private-sector careers that depend on advanced analytical and communicative skills, especially in writing