This course calendar is subject to change throughout the semester. Unless otherwise indicated, read the biographical entry and all of the works for each author mentioned.
Date |
Due Today |
In Class |
Jan. 16 |
• General Introduction |
• Course introduction
• Schedule Journal Article Analysis presentations |
Jan. 23 |
• Classical Rhetoric: Introduction
• Gorgias
• Anonymous Dissoi Logoi author
• Isocrates
• Reading Commentary 1 |
• Classical rhetoric
• The Sophists |
Jan. 30 |
|
No class |
Feb. 6 |
• Plato
• Reading Commentary 2 |
• Cathe Journal Article Analysis
• Plato
|
Feb. 13 |
• Aristotle
• Reading Commentary 3
• Paper 1 idea
|
• Jenna Journal Article Analysis • Aristotle
• Discuss Paper 1 ideas
• Exam 1 review |
Feb. 20 |
|
• Exam 1 |
Feb. 27 |
• Cicero
• Reading Commentary 4
• Paper 1 thesis and potential sources |
• Jonathan Journal Article Analysis • Cicero
• Discuss Paper 1 theses and support |
Mar. 6 |
|
No class
|
Mar. 13 |
• Medieval Rhetoric: Introduction
• Augustine
• Paper 1 draft |
• Meghan Journal Article Analysis • Medieval rhetoric
• Paper 1 draft workshop |
Mar. 20 |
|
No class |
Mar. 27 |
• Paper 1
• Renaissance Rhetoric: Introduction
• Ramus
|
• Renaissance rhetoric
|
Apr. 3 |
• Enlightenment Rhetoric: Introduction
• Locke
• Hume
• Vico
• Reading Commentary 5 |
• Rebecca Journal Article Analysis • Enlightenment rhetoric
|
Apr. 10 |
• Campbell
• Blair
• Whately
• Reading Commentary 6
• Paper 2 idea
|
• Enlightenment rhetoric
• Discuss Paper 2 ideas
• Exam 2 review |
Apr. 17 |
• Exam 2 |
No class |
Apr. 24 |
• Modern and Postmodern Rhetoric: Introduction
• Richards (from The Philosophy of Rhetoric)
• Burke (from A Rhetoric of Motives)
• Weaver (Language Is Sermonic)
• Perelman (from The New Rhetoric, from The Realm of Rhetoric)
• Toulmin (from The Uses of Argument)
• Booth
• Reading Commentary 7
• Paper 2 thesis and potential sources
|
• Emily Journal Article Analysis • Modern rhetoric
• Discuss Paper 2 theses and support
|
May 1 (optional)
|
• Paper 2 drafts
|
• Paper 2 draft workshop |
May 8
(7:00pm) |
• Paper 2
• Foucault (from The Order of Discourse)
• Derrida
• Cixous (The Laugh of the Medusa) |
• Postmodern rhetoric |
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