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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Now Accepting Applications—Iowa State’s MA and PhD in Rhetoric and Professional Communication</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For those applying to graduate school, consider Iowa State’s MA in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication (RCPC) and its PhD in </span><a href="https://www.engl.iastate.edu/rpc/" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue">Rhetoric
and Professional Communication (RPC)</span></a><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. These versatile programs allow students to apply diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to study rhetoric, composition, and professional
communication. Students can focus on one area or explore courses in all three areas.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rhetoric areas include visual and material rhetoric, feminist rhetoric, social justice rhetoric as well as public memory and social controversy. Professional
communication courses include user experience, multimedia and interaction design, document design and editing, and organizational communication. Composition covers topics in composition theory and administrating multimodal writing programs. In addition to
working with our </span><a href="https://www.engl.iastate.edu/rpc/rpc-faculty/" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue">RPC faculty</span></a><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">, graduate students
may also collaborate with faculty in other disciplines and even pursue dual doctoral degrees in RPC and Applied Linguistics and Technology or Human Computer Interaction. </span><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Our graduate students have the opportunity to teach a variety of courses within </span><a href="https://www.engl.iastate.edu/isucomm/" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue">ISUComm’s
Foundational and Advanced Communication</span></a><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> programs which include composition, public speaking, and business communication, as well as tutor in our </span><a href="https://www.wmc.dso.iastate.edu/" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue">Writing
and Media Center</span></a><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and work on research with faculty</span><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">. PhD students earn $19,300 for 9 months of half time teaching ($2,145/month)
and a full tuition waiver, and MA students earn $19,200 for 9 months ($2,133/month) and a half tuition waiver. Completing one of our degree programs gives students cross-disciplinary training for a variety of academic, industry, and entrepreneurial careers.
Graduates of our programs have a high placement rate in both academe and industry. </span><a href="https://www.engl.iastate.edu/rpc/graduate-programs/phd-rpc/rpc-phd-alumni/" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:blue">See
what our graduates have done</span></a><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The application deadline is January 5, 2020. You can learn more about our MA and PhD programs from the attached brochure and here: </span><a href="https://www.engl.iastate.edu/rpc/" class=""><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#386EFF">https://www.engl.iastate.edu/rpc/</span></a><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contact: </span><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#386EFF"><a href="mailto:englgrad@iastate.edu" class="">englgrad@iastate.edu</a></span><span class="" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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