LRSP Introductory Seminars (6 Hours taken in the first year)

• English 75011 Introduction to the Field
• English 75012 Reading & Interpreting Research on Writing

LRSP Core Seminars (9 Hours: 3 out of 4 seminars listed)

• 75051 Literacy: Functions, Practices and History
• 79022 Greek & Roman Rhetorical Theory
• 75044 Research Design
• 75027 Role of Composition in the Study of Writing
  

LRSP Elective Courses (15 hours across Areas A, B, C, D below; 6 hours must be at 80k-level)

Area A Theoretical Foundations (3 Hours)

• 75023 Rhetorical Theory: 18, 19, 20th Centuries
• 75057 Semeiotics
• 85024 Domain Rhetorics and the Construction of Knowledge
• 85025 Theories and Systems of Writing and Representation 

Area B Language and Linguistics (3 Hours)

• 73034 Literate Practices and Sociolinguistics
• 75035 Linguistics for Rhetoricians
  
• 85033 Rhetorical Nature and Function of Extended Discourse

Area C Research Methods (3 Hours)

• 75044 Research Design
  
• 85041 Field Research Methods in Writing
• 85042 Discourse Analysis
• 85043 Historical Methods in Writing and Rhetoric

Area D Literate Practices: Learning and Functions (3 Hours)

• 75052 Writing Activity as Social Practice
• 75053 Writing Technologies
• 85054 Studies in Literacy and Community
• 85055: Nature and Relationship of Non/Academic Literacy

Open Elective (3 Hours from A, B, C, or D)

LRSP Program Prerequisites are normally satisfied by M.A. coursework (at the discretion of LRSP Advisor), including 76094 Teaching College Writing (3 hours), Literary Traditions (3 hours), and Critical/Contextual Studies (3 hours).

Advising The LRSP doctoral program relies on an active advising system to encourage student success:

• During the first semester of matriculation, each LRSP doctoral student forms an Advisory Committee of three LRSP faculty members who work with the student through the completion of coursework and advise the student on appropriate ways to fulfill the requirement for facility in a second language or other representation system. The language/representation requirement may necessitate further coursework, depending upon the needs of the student.
• After course work and language requirements are completed, students form an Examining Committee, which works with the student to decide on areas, questions, and standards for a qualifying examination.
• Upon the successful completion of the qualifying examination (written and oral), students form a Dissertation Committee, whose members direct the student through the dissertation and the completion of the degree.
• We encourage students to complete the degree in 4 years.