Courses in Rhetoric, Media and Cultural Studies focus on how texts shape experience, thought, and social relations in mediated cultural contexts. Our faculty take up issues of historical and contemporary concern typically associated with rhetorical and critical-cultural studies -- influence, power, identity, social change — with a consistent focus on how media technologies shape consciousness and interaction. Example course offerings include African American oratory, rhetorical criticism, sports communication, cinematic violence, cultural studies, theories of media technology and society, and media and globalization.
Dr. Jon Crane, Dr. Min Jang, Dr. Richard Leeman and Dr. Dan Grano specialize in Rhetoric, Media Studies and Popular Culture. Dr. Margaret Quinlan and Dr. Ashli Stokes also do some research in this area.