Rhetoric

Rhetoric courses help students to develop skills in speaking, writing, listening, and critical reading, and to build competence in research, analysis, and argumentation. Because these skills are basic to the rest of a student's study in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, students must register for their assigned rhetoric course at their first or second registration, as required, and continue to enroll in rhetoric until the required courses are completed.

All transfer students, regardless of the number of hours they transfer, must complete the rhetoric component of the General Education Program. The admission degree evaluation shows whether a student is held for a University of Iowa rhetoric class, and if so, which one(s).

Students required to enroll in English as a Second Language (ESL) classes as a result of their English proficiency evaluation must complete all ESL classes before registration in any rhetoric class. Required ESL courses are prerequisites to rhetoric courses.

Course List

010:005/033:005 Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry has been removed from the list of approved courses.

Courses 4 s.h. unless otherwise noted

010:001 Rhetoric I
010:002 Rhetoric II
010:003 Accelerated Rhetoric
010:004 Writing and Reading 3 s.h.
010:006 Speaking and Reading 3 s.h.