I am a first-year MA student in Rhet/Comp. I have a BA in print journalism and a minor in sociology, which led me to a bit o' newspaper writing. When pumping out a handful of shallow, rushed stories each week proved to be an enormous disappointment, I fled. For my sanity. For my unborn children. For your unborn children's unborn children. I wanted to be involved in real stories with people who cared about more than spitting out blippy sound bites on highway construction and zoning laws. Zoning laws... sounds like zoning... sounds like contact zones...
I'm interested in looking at the realities new immigrant students face as they enter U.S. universities. I'm interested in analyzing the classroom as a cultural space where power, politics, and customs merge and collide. I'm interested in taking a critical look at the mixed messages we send students in our comp. classrooms regarding voice, language, and expression. I'm interested in moving from theory to practice when it comes to honoring home languages, but I'm not even sure how that would look yet. Enter classmates, curriculum, and Dr. Monroe!
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ha! (re: "enter classmates, curriculum, and Dr. Monroe!) Dunno that this class will resolve any (much less all) of these issues... but we're sure talk it death.
And gosh, you've ruined my dream of becoming a journalist.
Who or what class here or experience elsewhere led you to rhetoric? I didn't think undergraduates even *knew* the field existed.
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