Date |
Subject |
Homework for Next Time |
Jan. 12 |
Course introduction
• Class overview
• Course website overview
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Perspectives chap. 1
Bring in a work (printed, online, video, etc.) that you would classify as rhetorical |
Jan. 17 |
Overview of rhetoric Sign course contract |
Perspectives chap. 2 (Richards)
Reading Notes |
Jan. 19
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Richards's rhetoric
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Readings "The Philosophy of Rhetoric: Lecture I" (Richards)
Readings "The Secret of Feedforward" (Richards)
Readings "What Basic English Is" (Richards)
Reading Notes |
Jan. 24
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Richards's rhetoric
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Readings "Metaphor as an Element of Originary Language" (Grassi)
Readings "Folly as a Philosophical Problem" (Grassi & Lorch)
Reading Notes |
Jan. 26
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Grassi's rhetoric
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Perspectives chap. 3 (Grassi)
Reading Notes |
Jan. 31 |
No class
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Feb. 2 |
Grassi's rhetoric |
Readings "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning" (Perelman)
Reading Notes |
Feb. 7
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Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca's rhetoric
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Perspectives chap. 4 (Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca)
Reading Notes |
Feb. 9
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Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca's rhetoric
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Readings "The Tyranny of Principles" (Toulmin)
Readings "Theory and Practice" (Jonsen & Toulmin)
Reading Notes
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Feb. 14
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Toulmin's rhetoric
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Perspectives chap. 5 (Toulmin)
Reading Notes |
Feb. 16
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Toulmin's rhetoric
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Perspectives chap. 6 (Weaver)
Reading Notes |
Feb. 21
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Weaver's rhetoric
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Readings "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric" (Weaver)
Reading Notes |
Feb. 23
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Thematic Comparison 1 plans
Weaver's rhetoric
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Thematic Comparison 1 |
Feb. 28
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Midterm Exam review |
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Mar. 1
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Midterm Exam
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Perspectives chap. 7 (Burke)
Reading Notes |
Mar. 6
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Burke's rhetoric
• Pentad exercise |
Readings "Dramatism" (Burke)
Readings "Flowerishes" (Burke)
Reading Notes |
Mar. 8
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Burke's rhetoric
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Perspectives chap. 8 (Habermas)
Reading Notes |
Mar. 13
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No class
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Mar. 15
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No class
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Mar. 20
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Habermas's rhetoric
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Readings "A Philosophico-Political Profile" (Habermas)
Reading Notes |
Mar. 22
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Habermas's rhetoric
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Readings "Language" (hooks)
Readings "Reflections on Race and Sex" (hooks)
Readings "Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness" (hooks)
Readings "Teaching Resistance: The Racial Politics of Mass Media" (hooks)
Reading Notes |
Mar. 27 |
hooks's rhetoric
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Perspectives chap. 9 (hooks)
Reading Notes
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Mar. 29
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hooks's rhetoric
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Perspectives chap. 10 (Baudrillard)
Reading Notes |
Apr. 3
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Baudrillard's rhetoric
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Readings "America" (Baudrillard)
Readings "A Marginal System: Collecting" (Baudrillard)
Readings "The Power of Reversibility that Exists in the Fatal: Interview" (Baudrillard)
Reading Notes |
Apr. 5 |
No class |
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Apr. 10
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Baudrillard's rhetoric |
Perspectives chap. 11 (Foucault)
Reading Notes |
Apr. 12
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Foucault's rhetoric |
Readings "History, Discourse, and Discontinuity" (Foucault)
Readings "The History of Sexuality" (Foucault)
Reading Notes |
Apr. 17
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Foucault's rhetoric Thematic Comparison 2 plans |
Thematic Comparison 2
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Apr. 19
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Rhetorical Analysis
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Apr. 24
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Rhetorical Analysis
• Submit working thesis • Working thesis exercise • Working thesis feedback |
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Apr. 26
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Final Exam review • Review Exercise |
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May 3
(3:00pm) |
Final Exam |
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May 10
(11:59pm) |
Rhetorical Analysis due
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