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Kerschbaum & M. Jimmie Killingsworth  \nThe number of first year writing and writing across the curriculum programs has been increasing at institutions across the United States , but a similar rise has not been seen in the growth of concentrations in rhetoric and writing as an undergraduate major or minor. As David Fleming noted nearly ten years ago in “Rhetoric as a Course of Study ,” despite an upturn in scholarly attention to rhetoric generally , the effects of this increased attention have not yet been fully felt at the undergraduate level , where rhetoric has not re established a presence as a “coherent and attractive course of study” ( 169) . Since the publication of Fleming’s article, at many institutions , rhetorical study atthe undergraduate level remains concentrated in first year composition courses , and English department faculty members are still asking what an undergraduate program of rhetorical study might look like.  \nIn this program profile, we describe how the Discourse Studies faculty at Texas A& M University has worked to develop a concentration in rhetoric that stretches across the undergraduate curriculum , offering the opportunity for undergraduate English majors and minors to select rhetoric as one of their areas of specialty. Students specialize in rhetoric by choosing to follow what is called a concentration in “Rhetoric , Writing, and Culture.” This profile addresses the emergence of rhetoric in the English Department’s undergraduate curriculum , discusses the faculty ’s efforts to expand and revise course offerings for a rhetoric program that better draws on the teaching and research strengths in our department as well as the unique needs of our students , and finally , points to some of the challenges in assessing the program’s success .  \nHistory of Undergraduate Rhetoric in the English Department  \nAs late as the early 1960s , Texas A& M was still a small military institute with an all male student body , as well asthe state land grant college. Its long and distinguished tradition in agriculture and engineering formed the basis for what it would become when it opened its doors to nonmilitary students and women in the sixties: one of the state’s two “flagship universities ,” a full scale Research I school with a varied and diverse student body of 45, 000 students (including a female majority) and a full complement of doctoral programs in various disciplines , including the liberal arts . Since the early 1970s , the English Department has grown from a unit that mainly provided service courses in composition and technical writing for engineering, agriculture, science, and business majors to a world class research department with 750 majors and more than one hundred M.A. and doctoral students .  \nAs happens at many universities , rhetoric and composition grew up at Texas A& M primarily as a service program atthe undergrad level and a research specialty at the grad level. The opportunities to teach comp and tech writing on a regular basis and to help with the heavy administrative duties associated with the large writing program directed mainly to undergrad nonmajors contributed to the growth of interest among graduate students , who often moved from a specialty in literature into the study of rhetoric after good teaching experiences in the comp program. Literature dominated the undergraduate offerings and also predominated in the graduate program though demand was high enough among grad students to support a three course sequence that provided the necessary background for thesis work in rhetoric . The courses—“History of Rhetoric to 1900,” “Modern Rhetorical Theory ,” and “Contemporary Composition Theory”—were taught once a year on a regular rotation.  \nIn 1989, an important shift occurred at the undergraduate level. 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