In the past few years, SFU has graduated a fair number of MA and PhD
students who specialized in Rhetoric & Writing. Both PhDs have acquired
permanent jobs (in a medical school and a faculty of applied sciences). At
least a couple of the MAs also acquired permanent fulltime jobs. And I
believe all the MAs have found considerable work teaching writing. Despite
last year's extraordinary political chaos, we expect to graduate at least
two more PhDs and an MA in the next year or two. (By the way, the SFU's
political conflicts seem well on the way to resolution; colleagues are
collegial again, and I'm hopeful all major outstanding conflicts (e.g.,
over the graduate program) will be resolved in the next two to four months.)
Rick
At 05:10 PM 10/15/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello all.
>
>Our Centre for Academic Writing at the University of Winnipeg is in the
>process of designing a new B.A. in rhetoric and communications, and would
>like to have as much information as possible about the market for our future
>graduates. We won't be offering specialized programs such as journalism or
>technical writing (though we will offer some "professional communication"-
>related courses), and we won't offer applied courses in electronic media
>such as TV or film. Instead, we're designing a rhetoric-based liberal
>education major, the kind of degree that places equal emphasis on theory,
>practice, and analysis. We're aiming for the well-rounded communicator, the
>reflective practitioner--someone who "writes well" and knows enough about
>the situated art of rhetoric to be highly adaptable.
>
>Can any of you who have experience with majors in writing, rhetoric, or
>communications share your knowledge--anecdotal or statistical--about the
>kinds of jobs available to your graduates? We expect our graduates will
>make good journalists, if they choose to go in that direction. But what
>other sorts of jobs do your grads take?
>
>Many thanks.
>
>
>
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