Calendar

This course calendar is subject to change throughout the semester.

Date Subject Homework for Next Time
Jan. 12 Course introduction
    • Class overview
    • Course website overview
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 Richards's rhetoric Readings "The Philosophy of Rhetoric: Lecture I" (Richards)
Readings "The Secret of Feedforward" (Richards)
Readings "What Basic English Is" (Richards)
Reading Notes
Jan. 24 Richards's rhetoric Readings "Metaphor as an Element of Originary Language" (Grassi)
Readings "Folly as a Philosophical Problem" (Grassi & Lorch)
Reading Notes
Jan. 26 Grassi's rhetoric Perspectives chap. 3 (Grassi)
Reading Notes
Jan. 31 No class
Feb. 2 Grassi's rhetoric Readings "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning" (Perelman)
Reading Notes
Feb. 7 Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca's rhetoric Perspectives chap. 4 (Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca)
Reading Notes
Feb. 9 Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca's rhetoric Readings "The Tyranny of Principles" (Toulmin)
Readings "Theory and Practice" (Jonsen & Toulmin)
Reading Notes
Feb. 14 Toulmin's rhetoric Perspectives chap. 5 (Toulmin)
Reading Notes
Feb. 16 Toulmin's rhetoric Perspectives chap. 6 (Weaver)
Reading Notes
Feb. 21 Weaver's rhetoric Readings "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric" (Weaver)
Reading Notes
Feb. 23 Thematic Comparison 1 plans
Weaver's rhetoric
Thematic Comparison 1
Feb. 28 Midterm Exam review
Mar. 1 Midterm Exam Perspectives chap. 7 (Burke)
Reading Notes
Mar. 6 Burke's rhetoric
   • Pentad exercise
Readings "Dramatism" (Burke)
Readings "Flowerishes" (Burke)
Reading Notes
Mar. 8 Burke's rhetoric Perspectives chap. 8 (Habermas)
Reading Notes
Mar. 13 No class
Mar. 15 No class
Mar. 20 Habermas's rhetoric Readings "A Philosophico-Political Profile" (Habermas)
Reading Notes
Mar. 22 Habermas's rhetoric 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 Perspectives chap. 9 (hooks)
Reading Notes
Mar. 29 hooks's rhetoric Perspectives chap. 10 (Baudrillard)
Reading Notes
Apr. 3 Baudrillard's rhetoric 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
Apr. 10 Baudrillard's rhetoric Perspectives chap. 11 (Foucault) 
Reading Notes
Apr. 12 Foucault's rhetoric Readings "History, Discourse, and Discontinuity" (Foucault)
Readings "The History of Sexuality" (Foucault) 
Reading Notes
Apr. 17 Foucault's rhetoric
Thematic Comparison 2 plans
Thematic Comparison 2
Apr. 19 Rhetorical Analysis
Apr. 24 Rhetorical Analysis
   • Submit working thesis
   • Working thesis exercise
   • Working thesis feedback

Apr. 26 Final Exam review
   • Review Exercise 

May 3
(3:00pm)
Final Exam
May 10
(11:59pm)
Rhetorical Analysis due

Course Information

Rhetorical Theory since 1900
ENG 389-001
MO 204
TR 2:00-3:15

Instructor Information

Dr. Jeremy Tirrell
tirrellj@uncw.edu
Office: MO 161
Office Hours: TR 12:00-2:00 (and by appointment)