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  • RHET 125: Creating Visual Rhetoric

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This is a project-based course in creating visual rhetoric. Looking at case studies of protest art, news images of 9/11, and advertising (political and product), students will explore how words and images interact in persuasive messages. As they create varied visual messages, students will consider what makes an image iconic, how visual and verbal elements contribute to meaning, and what role images play in news stories. Lab required. Mode of Inquiry: Creating in the Arts Offering: Fall Instructor: Collins
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  • RHET 150: Public Speaking

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    Effective communication in front of an audience. Discovery and development of ideas, organization of material, use of language and the modes of presentation. Classroom speeches of different types, short papers, examinations. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values Offering: Every semester Instructor: Staff
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  • RHET 160: Argumentation and Society

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This course will investigate methods of constructing and evaluating public arguments. Using a case study method, the course will explore argument and the human condition, the process of identifying arguments and the role of evidence and reasoning in argument. A case study will be selected each semester for argument analysis. Students will construct arguments on the semester topic and will analyze arguments made by actual participants in the public forum. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values Offering: On demand Instructor: Trapp
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  • RHET 210: Media and the Environment

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This course explores the way the media deals with environmental issues and images, particularly biodiversity. We focus on the emergence of the environment as an important media issue beginning in the 1970s; the way news and entertainment media have presented the environment; and the links between media texts, the culture which they create and reflect and the viewer/reader's response to these messages. Students will learn textual analysis of news stories (print and television), documentary films, and environment and children's programming. We pay particular attention to how these messages reflect the way the culture values and reasons and to how these messages argue for a particular view of the natural world and our relationship with the environment. Part of the environmental cluster. This is a paired course; students must enroll concurrently in BIOL 210 Biodiversity: Discovering Life. Together these courses fulfill two course credits and two writing-centered credits. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values; Interpreting Texts; Environmental Cluster General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Offering: Spring Instructor: Collins
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  • RHET 231: Classical Rhetoric

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    History and survey of principal theories of rhetoric including Plato, Aristotle and Cicero. Offering: Spring Instructor: Collins
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  • RHET 232: Persuasion,Propaganda and the Mass Media

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    Political rhetoric and advertising serve as case studies for the use and influence of persuasion and propaganda in contemporary society. Special attention is paid to the role of the mass media in this process and to the ethics of persuasive and propagandistic techniques. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values Offering: Every semester Instructor: Clark, Douglass
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  • RHET 242: Leadership and Group Communication

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    Principles of small group communication, including leadership development, role functions, decision-making and problem-solving processes, task and maintenance dimensions of group interaction. Emphasis on integration of theory and practice through small group presentations, observations and videotape review. Offering: On demand Instructor: Clark
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  • RHET 244: Latino/Latina Voices in the U.S

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    This course is a historical-critical survey of the public discourse of Latino/Latinas in the United States from colonial times to the present. As such, we will focus significantly on such issues as language, establishment of identities, civil rights, immigration, the formation of communities, political participation, and cultural assimilation. In order to accomplish our task we will study the historical context of the discourse, prominent rhetors, and various pieces of discourse. Analyzing themes and issues articulated is crucial for understanding Latino/Latina voices in the United States. This course will also count toward the Latin American Studies major. Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values; Interpreting Texts Offering: Annually Instructor: Cordova
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  • RHET 261: Rhetorical Criticism

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    A writing-centered course focusing on the criteria and methods for analyzing discourse. General critical forms such as the analysis of situation, argument, structure and style will be addressed, as well as more specialized methods like cultural analysis and Burkean analysis. Students will write papers employing the various methods. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Offering: Fall Instructor: Douglass, Trapp and Cordova
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  • RHET 320: Mass Media and Society

    1.00 Credits
    Willamette University

    The role and influence of mass communication media in contemporary society. Effects of mediated communication on the individual. The scope of the course includes a variety of topics: communication theories, history of mass media, social effects, regulation, industry's social responsibilities and profit motive, and future developments. Attention is given to television, newspapers, radio, magazines and film. An in-depth research project on a subject chosen by the student is required as well as class discussions of research methods and findings. Perspectives integral to the course are drawn from all social science disciplines, as well as from the field of communications. Prerequisite: RHET 261, or consent of instructor Offering: Spring Instructor: Staff
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