Why Study Rhetoric & Composition @ URI?
Graduate students at URI who specialize in Rhetoric & Composition comprise a diverse and close-knit community. New students can expect to meet friendly classmates and a supportive faculty when they arrive at URI. They will find a variety of challenging courses and many opportunities for professional development during their time in the program. In an anonymous survey distributed last year as part of our self-study, current graduate students said the following: • “URI’s Rhetoric & Composition program is a warm, professional community.” • “For me, people make a program. There are truly great, intelligent, energetic people in URI’s Rhetoric & Composition program.” • “With the faculty, there is such an overwhelming abundance of wonderful minds to learn from and with. Also, the graduate students with whom I work, learn, and study provide astounding support: discussions are always so fruitful within and outside of the classroom.” • “The faculty are very accessible, personable, and collegial.
