ENGL 1001: Rhetoric & Composition I (Fall 2011 – Fall 2017)
ENGL 1002: Rhetoric & Composition II (Winter 2012 – Winter 2018)

The First-Year English Program (FYE) at Marquette University offered a robust two-course curriculum designed to develop students not just as technical writers (and fulfill the University Core of Common Studies rhetoric requirement), but to introduce them to the complex systems by which information and ideas are developed, scrutinized, coded, transferred, archived, and disseminated.

Broadly speaking, the goal was to introduce students to the terms of engagement with the work of the university in particular and public discourse in general.  In simplest terms, freshmen were challenged to set aside simple information-consumption and to learn the conventions of — and engage in — information-production.  The idea of the “ongoing conversation” was a touchstone of both Rhet/Comp I and Rhet/Comp II: the former dedicated to the conventions of academic “conversations” on discrete topics; the latter engaged with ongoing loci of discussion in the public spheres.  In this way, FYE offered students a solid foundation for engaging in the discourse of whatever veins of academic study and public conversations in which they choose to invest.

More information, including more detailed descriptions of each course, unit calendars, detailed assignment descriptions, and more can be found in the Course Documents section of the site: Rhetoric & Composition I here, and Rhetoric & Composition II here.  Both sets of documents reflect the most recent (and final) incarnation of courses in continual development.

The FYE Program was dissolved in 2018 and its responsibilities were folded into the Foundations in Rhetoric course that currently fulfills the University Core of Common Studies requirement.  The queen is dead; long live the queen.

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