Calendar

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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