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This course focuses on reasoned discourse: the techniques for planning and making arguments as well as for the critical analysis of arguments. Prerequisite: RHET 231 or consent of instructor Offering: On demand Instructor: Staff
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This course develops a rhetorical framework for understanding campaign communication, the symbolic nature of the presidency and the way groups and the media control political realities. Language is studied as a symbolic means of creating and projecting images and issues. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Prerequisite: RHET 261 or consent of instructor Offering: Fall Instructor: Collins
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An exploration of the dramatist theory expounded by Kenneth Burke, the most influential theorist in contemporary rhetoric. Drawing on a selection of texts, students will examine language symbol manipulation, identification, motive and pieties. Prerequisite: RHET 231 Offering: Spring Instructor: Collins, Douglass, Clark
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This course surveys significant developments in narrative theory. Narrative in this context is defined broadly, not only as a style or technique of writing, but as a paradigm for understanding human thought and communication at large. Attention is directed to particular case studies that illustrate characteristic functions of narration. Prerequisite: RHET 231 Offering: Fall Instructor: Collins, Douglass
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This course provides the flexibility to offer special topics of interest in rhetoric and media studies. Topics might include marginalized discourse, non-Western rhetoric, or mass media and the global village. Prerequisite: RHET 231 or RHET 261 according to topic focus on theory or criticism, or consent of instructor Offering: On demand Instructor: Staff
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This course explores the intersection of three closely related constructs: gender, communication and power. Students in this course will consider gender as an investigative construct, examine the empirical differences in the ways men and women communicate in the United States and critique selected genres of women's rhetoric. Mode of Inquiry: Understanding Society Prerequisite: Consent of instructor Offering: On demand Instructor: Cordova
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This course examines conceptual and critical approaches to the study of war rhetoric. The first half of the course focuses on international participation in the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. The second half of the course is a case analysis of Gulf War rhetoric. Students will explore media images opposing nations employ to characterize the other; strategic choices in public rhetoric that create and sustain the Cold War or acceptance of the Gulf War; and the literalized metaphors and ideological frames that characterize war rhetoric. Closed to freshmen. Prerequisite: RHET 261 or consent of instructor Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Collins
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This project-based course explores the emerging and interdisciplinary investigation of visual culture and rhetoric. It begins with an overview of the relationship between words and images followed by case studies focused on memory and memorials. The course explores the visual rhetoric of witnessing by examining representation, war, the cultural trauma through the images of tragedy, photographs of war, and war memorials. The course will examine exhibitionary rhetoric through case studies of the role of memorials and reconciliation in Chile and controversial exhibitions in the U.S. Lab required. Prerequisite: RHET 261 Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Collins
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This course examines news accounts as they construct the meaning of the events they report. Students explore how reality is shaped when the media privileges a particular frame for the events; sketches familiar plotlines, characters, or ideologies; or gives authority to some voices and silences others. Finally, the course addresses the effect of media conventionalizing, in the symbolic complexes addressed and the formulaic stories they spawn, on both the range of interpretations and the range of topics that are publicly addressed. Closed to freshmen. General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered Prerequisite: RHET 261, or consent of instructor Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Collins
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This course is a rhetorical and critical survey of the use of religious language in the public and political discourse of the United States in an attempt to discern how religious discourse is used to engender social change, construct the communities in which we live, and lead our public lives. We will focus on special problems and issues created by words of and about religious belief and speeches, artistic expression, cinematic representation, and other forms of communicative interaction. Prerequisite: RHET 261 Offering: Alternate years Instructor: Cordova
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