English 472
Syllabus |
This schedule is dynamic and responds to the needs of the classroom situation and students as we move through the course. Some readings may be rearranged, some dropped, others added, as the needs of the situation demands. All changes to the syllabus will be announced in class and made online. The online syllabus is always the final authority on what is due and when, and it is your responsibility to stay current with the changes. And remember: you are accountable for all work, even if you do not attend class.
Remember: Always bring to class the text/readings on the assigned day.
BB=BlackBoard
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Date |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
Introduction: What is Rhetoric? What is its Purpose? |
T Jan 19 |
Class begins! Introduction to English 472Review syllabus, schedule, getting started discussion: Introduction(s) Activity |
Read: Herrick Chapter 1 & Course Policies and examine all course documents and web pages
Post & Email Introductions by Wed 11:59 pm |
Th Jan 21 |
Discuss: Herrick
Questions?: projects, policy, web pages,
Read: Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” 19 November 1863 & Martin Luther King, Jr. “I Have a Dream” Address at March on Washington, 28 August 1963
Discuss: Lincoln and MLK, Jr |
Read: Booth’s “How Many ‘Rhetorics’? (BB) and Herrick Ch 2-3 |
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Class Discussion |
Homework |
(re)Reading the Sophists |
T Jan 26 |
Read: Gorgias’ “Encomium on Helen” (BB)
Discuss: Booth, the sophists, Herrick, Gorgias, “Encomium” |
Read: Herrick Chapter 3 and Jarratt’s “The First Sophists and the Uses of History” (BB) |
Th Jan 28 |
Discuss: Herrick and Jarratt and Sophistic Rhetoric |
Read: from Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus |
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Class Discussion |
Homework |
The Platonic Critique of Sophistry What is its Purpose? |
T Feb 2 |
Discuss: Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus |
Read: KCrowley’s “Plea for the Revival of Sophistry” (BB) and McComiskey’s “Plato’s Critique of Rhetoric in the Gorgias” (BB) |
Th Feb 4 |
Discuss: Crowley and McComiskey |
Read: Herrick Ch 4 and from Aristotle’s Rhetoric Book I |
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Class Discussion |
Homework |
Aristotle's Rhetoric |
T Feb 9 |
Discuss: Herrick and The Rhetoric |
Read: from Aristotle’s Rhetoric from Book II, Parts 1-10 |
Th Feb 11 |
Discuss: Aristotle and Rhetorical Tradition; Aristotle’s Rhetoric |
Read: Herrick Ch 5 and from Cicero’s De Oratore, Book I, Sections I - XXIII |
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Class Discussion |
Homework |
Cicero and Roman Rhetoric |
T Feb 16 |
Discuss: Cicero and Roman Rhetoric and Herrick
Read and Discuss: Douglass, “What To The Slave Is The 4th Of July?” Independence Day Speech at Rochester, 1852 |
Read: Cicero, Of Oratory, Book I, Sections XXIV - LXII |
Th Feb 18 |
Discuss: Cicero
Read: Kennedy’s Inaugural Address 20 January 1961 |
Read: Herrick Ch 8; Mary Astell: A Serious Proposal to the Ladies and from Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding Book III — Chapter IX — Of the Imperfection of Words |
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Class Discussion |
Homework |
Rhetoric and the Enlightenment |
T Feb 23 |
Discuss: Herrick and Enlightenment Rhetoric, Astell and Locke |
Read: From Giambattista Vico: On the Study Methods of Our Time and from Locke’s Essay on Human Understanding Chapter X — Of the Abuse of Words |
Th Feb 25 |
Discuss: Vico and Locke |
Read: Berlin’s "Revisionary History” (BB) and Glenn’s “Remapping Rhetorical Territory” (BB) |
Week 7 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
(Re)assessing the Rhetorical Tradition |
T March 2 |
Discuss: the reassessment of the rhetorical tradition Berlin and Glenn |
Read: Campbell’s “Rhetoric of Women's Liberation” (BB) and Biesecker’s "Coming to Terms”(BB) |
Th March 4 |
Discuss: Campbell and Biesecker |
Read: Mattingly’s “Telling Evidence,” (BB) from Grimke’s Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, III, IV, VII, and X and Stewart’s "Lecture Delivered at Franklin Hall" (21 September 1832) |
Week 8 |
Class Discussion
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Homework |
Women and the History of Rhetoric |
T March 9 |
Discuss: Mattingly, Grimke and Stewart |
Read: Campbell’s, “Stanton’s ‘The Solitude of Self’: A Rationale for Feminism.”(BB) |
Th March 11 |
Discuss: Campbell
Read: Stanton |
Read: Burke from A Rhetoric of Motives (BB) and from Language as Symbolic Action (BB) |
Week 9 |
Spring Break
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Week 10 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
Modern Rhetorical Theory |
T March 23 |
Discuss: Burke |
Read: Wilson’s “Contested Space” (BB) and selected speeches and editorials |
Th March 25 |
Discuss: Wilson selected speeches and editorials |
Read: Gallagher and Zagacki’s “Visibility and Rhetoric”(BB) |
Week 11 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
Visual Rhetoric |
T March 30 |
Discuss: Visual Rhetoric and Gallagher and Zagacki |
Read: Kimble and Olson’s “Visual Rhetoric Representing Rosie the Riveter”(BB) |
Th April 1 |
Discussion and Activity: Kimble and Olson and Analyzing Visual Rhetoric |
Read: Griffin’s “The Rhetoric of Historical Movements” (BB) and Simons, “Requirements, Problems, and Strategies: A Theory of Persuasion for Social Movements”(BB) |
Week 12 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
Social Movement Rhetoric |
T April 6 |
Discuss: Griffin and Simons Activity: Parodies
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Read: Garrison |
Th April 8 |
Discuss: Abolition and Rhetoric |
Read: Herrick Chapter 10 & Bitzer’s “The Rhetorical Situation”(BB) & Vatz’s “Myth of the Rhetorical Situation”(BB) |
Week 13 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
The Rhetorical Situation |
T April 13 |
Discuss: the rhetorical situation, Herrick, Bitzer & Vatz; paintings |
Read: Heifferon’s “The New Smallpox” (BB) |
Th April 15 |
Discuss: Heifferon |
Read: Herrick Chapter 11 & Foucault’s "The Discourse on Language”(BB) |
Week 14 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
Postmodern Rhetoric |
T April 20 |
Discuss: Rhetoric and Postmodernism, Herrick and Foucault |
Althusser’s ”Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses”(BB) |
Th April 22 |
Discuss: Althusser |
Read: Clinton’s Second Inaugural Address, 20 January 1997 |
Week 15 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
Making Rhetorical Choices |
T April 27 |
Discuss: Presidential Rhetoric: Obama Speeches |
Continue drafting |
Th April 29 |
Revision Workshop |
Continue drafting |
Week 16 |
Class Discussion |
Homework |
Putting it All Together |
T May 4 |
Discuss: Rhetorical Studies |
Finish final project |
Finals |
Finals |
There is no in-class final exam in this class, but you are required to turn your final project & a reflection in my office, LL 309B, on the day scheduled for the exam. If you fail to turn do so during the scheduled exam time, I cannot record your final course grade |
