graduate minor in literacy & rhetorical studies

The interdisciplinary graduate minor in Literacy and Rhetorical Studies (LRS) offers graduate students opportunities to interrogate issues related to writing and literacy, and to do so with faculty members drawn from disciplines across the University.

Students enrolled in this minor craft individualized programs that will complement their degree programs and open new perspectives for scholarship and teaching. LRS students’ specific literacy-related interests have included (but are not limited to) historical, feminist, and cultural analysis of literacy and rhetoric; theories and practices of writing pedagogy; reading and writing in non-academic settings; and effects of technology on literacy practice.

a special spring 2010 event:

Two-day LRS Speaker Series on Hmong Literacies—Thursday and Friday, February 25 and 26. See writing.umn.edu/hmongliteracies for more information. Go to the LRS speaker series page for information on other interesting events.