Bachelor of Arts in Writing and Rhetoric and Juris Doctor in Law

Pace University

Go beyond the fundamentals of writing and critical thinking in a program that empowers you to take creative risks, experiment with style and form, generate new ideas, and challenge conventions. With a degree in writing and rhetoric from Pace you’ll cultivate your unique voice while joining a vibrant creative community. Engage in readings, workshops, salons, festivals, and conferences that foster collaboration, inspiration, and growth. In today’s interconnected world, writing and communication are more essential than ever-ranked among the top five skills employers seek across professions. No matter your career aspirations, earning a bachelor’s degree in English, Writing, and Rhetoric from Pace University prepares you for a wide range of writing-focused careers. Through a dynamic, multimodal curriculum, you'll explore digital, argumentative, creative, research, and professional writing approaches, gaining the skills to influence, persuade, and engage in ways that promote academic freedom and critical thinking.Our course offerings, curricular design, and individualized, student-centered approach to teaching, learning, and mentorship encourage our students to take creative risks, experiment with style and form, generate new ideas, and challenge convention with the goal of cultivating and amplifying their own distinctive voices.Students majoring in English, Writing, and Rhetoric gain critical skills directly applicable to a career in law. With the dual degree, English, Writing, and Rhetoric majors begin their law career trajectories while gaining rhetorical and writing foundations. The dual degree provides opportunities to practice writing in many forms and develop knowledge and skills, such as impact of rhetorical choices, the art of argumentative communication, and analysis and synthesis of texts, all of which are critical for admittance and success in law school and eventual careers in law. Through this accelerated degree, students will benefit from faculty mentorship, small courses, internships, and an active campus-wide writing community. This is an accelerated 6-year program of 178 credits. For acceptance into the program, interested students apply separately to the School of Law and by the end of their junior year meet established criteria for admissions. Accepted students take law school courses (and begin to complete credits towards law school) during their undergraduate senior year.