CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Why the Interdisciplinary Graduate Certificate Program in Rhetorics of Inquiry?
- Gives you a competitive edge in the job market by adding an emphasis in rhetoric, interdisciplinary, and writing across the curriculum fields
- Shortens time to graduation
- Helps you efficiently navigate and complete your dissertation
- Gives you the tools to get published before you enter the job market
- Offers unique interdisciplinary feedback not found in other departments
- Offers an active, sympathetic community in which your participation is encouraged and valued
- Provides mentoring with a diverse faculty
- Enhances your abilities to argue in oral, written and multimedia forms
- Helps you cultivate habits of interdisciplinary study and research through reading, writing and discussion
- Encourages you to cross conceptual and institutional boundaries that appear to separate the arts, humanities, and professions
- Certifies that students who have completed the program are prepared to engage with argument and writing across curricula
Read what certificate holders have to say here.
Requirements
- A graduate student in any field in good standing
- Complete four courses offered by POROI
- Introduction to Rhetorics of Inquiry (160:200) is the only required course
- The remaining three courses may be any POROI core or cross-listed course. Repeated courses count as one.
- Students do not need to register under the 160 department number for the course to count


