Peace Corps Master's International
Sample Course Schedules
Below are examples of courses typical to the schedules which RTC students select for concentrations A-E. Up to nine (9) credit hours at the 3000- or 4000-level can be accepted for graduate credit. An official list of all graduate and undergraduate courses, their descriptions and prerequisites, can be found on Michigan Tech's website.
Secondary Education English Teaching
, Secondary English Education Teacher Training
, or University English Teaching
"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education."
— Thomas Jefferson
3000- or 4000-level - French or Spanish
HU4140 - Methods of Teaching English
HU5001 - Proseminar in Rhetoric and Technical Communication *
HU5002 - Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy Studies
HU5020 - Composition Theory
HU5021 - Literacy Theory and Research
HU5050 - Intercultural Communication
HU5931 - Oral, Written and Visual Communication Pedagogies
FW5770 - Rural Community Development and Planning Analysis *
HU5991 - Special Project or HU5990 Thesis **
Health Extension or HIV/AIDS Outreach
"I have often, along with my brother and with other physicians, visited one of their patients who refused to drink his medicine or submit to the surgeon's knife or cautery, and when the doctor was unable to persuade them, I did so, by no other art but rhetoric."
— Gorgias, in Plato's Gorgias
3000- or 4000-level - French or Spanish
HU4625 - Risk Communication
BL3970 - Current Health Issues
HU5001 - Proseminar in Rhetoric and Technical Communication *
HU5004 - Communication in Cultural Contexts
HU5011 - Technology, Culture, and Communication
HU5030 - Linguistic Analysis
HU5050 - Intercultural Communication
HU5113 - Cultural Studies
FW5770 - Rural Community Development and Planning Analysis *
HU5991 - Special Project or HU5990 Thesis **
* Required course
** 10 credits (1 credit per semester while in the Peace Corps; 3 credits on return)
Unless otherwise indicated, all images of volunteers and their communities are provided by and used with the permission of the Peace Corps.
Left — A volunteer teaches English
Right — Mary Ann Camp promotes AIDS awareness in Malawi by making a banner with school kids