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3.00 Credits
J. Lutman In ancient Greece and Rome, teachers of rhetoric taught style (elocutio) as one of five essential canons, or rules, for effective and persuasive communication. By this rule, an effective communicator reaches an audience not just through the content of speech, but also through its artful expression. This course studies how writers' stylistic choices can profoundly influence the reception and interpretation of texts. With the goal of practicing new stylistic techniques in their own writing, students closely analyze published authors' diction, sentence structure, punctuation, and figures of speech. Readings for the course include short sample pieces from a variety of genres, written by a variety of authors, as models. Because an understanding of prescriptive English grammar is essential to experiments in style, students review the parts of speech and study the parts of sentences, principles of syntax, and punctuation conventions. This course does not meet the writing requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Staff This course teaches the basics of writing for radio. A variety of types of radio scripts is covered, from short news items, opinion pieces, public service announcements, calendar items and music segues, to basic interviewing techniques and longer, complex new stories. Emphasis is placed on writing for the voice, on making transitions in and out of music or interview tape, on accuracy, and on terse, efficient writing that fits within an allotted time. Some of the scripts written in class will be recorded for use on Colgate University radio, WRCU FM. This course is particularly appropriate for students intending a career in journalism or radio, and includes a visit to WAER FM, the Syracuse University NPR affiliate. Registration priority is given to students involved in WRCU FM. This course does not meet the writing requirement.
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3.00 Credits
S. Spring This course immerses students in the study of narrative craft, grounding students initially in the print essay tradition, but soon departing into multi-media narrative forms, including the audio essay, the serial blog essay, and the video essay. A central premise for this course is that every narrative - every story - inquires into both experience and ideas, and that writers compose not just what they know but in order to know, articulating these experiences and ways of knowing to chosen audiences. Thus, this course asks students to mediate the "subjective" and "objective" positions of the writerly "I" and "eye" in an effort to invite readers to see anew and to read and experience stories through aural and visual media. As a workshop-based course, students are expected to circulate their writing-in-process to each other - and their completed texts to various public spheres. No previous expertise in audio or video composing is necessary. This course does not meet the writing requ
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3.00 Credits
Staff By exploring the boundary between private and public writing, this course examines how personal reflection intersects with critical analysis to develop a disciplined expository essay. Drawing on examples from a variety of fields, it develops skills in autobiographical and biographical writing, journal writing, narration, description, synthesis, and peer response, and then shows how these skills can enrich the expository essay without sacrificing its academic tone and structure. This course meets the writing requirement.
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3.00 Credits
S. Spring As an introduction to rhetoric, rhetorical history and criticism, and feminist rhetorics, this course foregrounds the study of how 19th-century women used both pen and voice with rhetorical precision to "stand and speak" to issues that marked their personal lives and their times. By studying women who composed and embodied what is now understood as the early years of the first wave of U.S. feminism, students access a genealogy of women rhetors who serve as exemplars - and cautions - for later waves and for their own contemporary visions of social change. By positioning the study of rhetoric as the study of language as it constitutes social relations, power, and knowledge, students become more acutely aware of and fluent in the composition, circulation, and criticism of private and public discourses, the verbal material through which they construct social worlds. The work for this course requires close reading and active discussion of course texts through a rhetorical lens and through the category of gender; an analytic essay that draws from and contributes to feminist rhetorical criticism; a performed (or recorded) text that addresses a pressing contemporary issue; and a final exam. This course does not meet the writing requirement. It counts toward the women's studies major or min
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3.00 Credits
Staff The department offers intensive study to qualified students. Appropriate background, plus permission of instructor, is required.
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3.00 Credits
S. Spring This course approaches the study of rhetoric by foregrounding the dynamic relationship of text and image. How does a writer's combination of verbal and visual elements communicate different arguments when circulated among different audiences How do verbal/visual texts imitate, represent, and/or constitute cultural identities, norms, values, or practices With the goal of becoming effective rhetorical critics, as well as incisive consumers and producers of visual culture, students in this course study a variety of visual texts in print and electronic form and examine these texts' complex powers of persuasion. The primary work of this course is to develop and strengthen fluency in rhetorical discourse and visual literacy, as students work to perceive and analyze, as well as design and create, verbal-visual texts.
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3.00 Credits
K. Campbell This course examines the ways in which language has reinforced racial and ethnic identities and divisions in American history. It explores the conceptual origins of race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference, particularly those produced through legal, scientific, social scientific, and journalistic discourse. Recognizing that the United States is not just a multicultural society but a multilingual society, the course investigates how ethnic Americans have "talked back" to power and seized the power to name. It focuses on the vernacular speech, humor, and literature of Latin Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Italian Americans. The course also traces the causes and consequences of historical silences, as suggested by Martin Luther King's dictum: "A riot is the language of the unheard." First-year students by permission only. This course counts toward the Africana and Latin American studies major/minor (African-American emphasis) and the linguistics min
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3.00 Credits
M. Darby This course explores the intersection of linguistic theory and feminist theory, defining gender as essentially cultural, but without assuming beforehand that women and men do, in fact, use different language. It considers the following questions in depth: To what extent does English have a sexist, or patriarchal bias Do women and men speak differently in our culture Do they think differently What is the difference between gender and sexuality in language use To what extent should writing avoid gender-specific forms, and to what extent should classrooms honor gender differences in language use What is "political correctness" in language and what is its value The course looks at English from theoretical, political, and social viewpoints, with readings taken from a wide range of fields, but with a particular focus on linguistics and feminist theory. First-year students by permission. This course counts toward the women's studies major/minor and meets its theory requirement. It also counts toward the linguistics minor
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