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A Question Worth Asking

How well do people communicate across the lines that divide nations and societies? What happens at and across the borders of racial, ethnic, class, cultural, and linguistic difference, or at the tacit borders of disciplinary and discourse communities? How do our literate practices, social purposes, and cultural patterns shape interpretation and action?

In an increasingly multicultural society and an increasingly globalized world, no understanding of communication or rhetoric is adequate without an enhanced awareness of its necessary embeddedness in interactions across all kinds of boundaries. How do people communicate across the lines that divide nations and societies? What happens at and across the border of racial, ethnic, class, cultural, and linguistic difference, or at the tacit borders of disciplinary and discourse communities? How do our literate practices, social purposes, and cultural patterns shape interpretation and action?

A Goal for Inquiry

The goal of studying intercultural rhetoric at CMU is not only to understand difference, but to let you conduct serious inquiry into the rhetorical practices that can cross borders and lead to a more equitable discourse of intercultural collaboration within education and society.

The program is meant to enable students to acquire a theory-informed understanding of the intercultural dimension of contemporary communication, gaining basic expertise for interpreting, conceptualizing and handling communicative and rhetorical interactions among different groups, fields or formations, and laying a solid foundation either for further graduate work in rhetoric, composition, cultural studies, communication studies, or for a professional career involving international communication, education, or business.

How Do I Participate in the Intercultural Rhetoric Concentration?

1. By taking at least three of your courses within the Intercultural Rhetoric list of offerings and focusing those course projects on an issue in intercultural interpretation or communication
   
   
2. By participating in the discussions of an Intercultural Rhetoric Inquiry group of students and faculty within the Rhetoric and the Literary and Cultural Studies programs
   
   
3. By submitting a final Individual Inquiry statement together with your three focused papers at the end of the program. This statement should integrate your learning and chart the path you took within the concentration and be a useful part of your professional portfolio.

The courses offered here (a selection of which is available every year) allow you to chart an inquiry in the context of rhetorical and culture theory, writing and teaching, and real world social action.

Core Courses

Discourse Analysis
History of Rhetoric II
Pedagogy of Writing
Process of Composing

Other Rhetoric Courses

Argument
Community Literacy and Intercultural Interpretation
Comparative Rhetoric
Rhetoric of Science
Sociolinguistics
Writing in the Public Interest

Courses in English, Modern Languages and History

Cultural Studies
Early Modern Nationhood
Interdisciplinary Cultural Analysis
Issues and Trends in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Social and Cognitive Aspects of Bilingualism
Special Topics in American Literature and Culture
Theoretical Approaches to Culture, Society and History

Other Courses That May Be Relevant

African American Studies
African American Women
American Dream
Educational Policy: Historical Perspectives
Ethnicity in Modern America
Gender Roles and Social Change
Intro to Anthropology and History