The Department of Rhetoric is a leading center for interdisciplinary research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences. Linked by a common interest in the functions of discourse in all its forms, faculty and students engage the theoretical, historical, and cultural dimensions of interpretation and criticism, in fields as diverse as political theory, gender, law, media studies, philosophy, and literature. The Department is also committed to the study of rhetorical traditions, from the classical era to contemporary rhetorical theory.


Chair: Michael Mascuch
Undergraduate Advisor: Marianne Constable
Graduate Advisor: David Bates
 

Department of Rhetoric
7408 Dwinelle Hall #2670
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-2670

9 AM -12 PM / 1 PM-4 PM

P: 510.642.1415
F: 510.642.8881
E: rfa@berkeley.edu

Rhetoric Library

Film Studies

 
     
 
 

 

         
 

Want to take a summer class? Courses descriptions now available online.

Spring 2008 Commencement Friday, May 16
2:00pm Zellerbach Hall

Fall 2008 Course Descriptions Available online!!

Job Opportunities

Judith Butler elected to the American Philosophical Society

 

New Books from Rhetoric