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Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (16534)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 04:00PM - 05:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 345
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ectrapp+CSCL3173W+Fall2016
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16534/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Fall 2017  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (16940)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2017 - 12/13/2017
Mon, Wed 08:15AM - 09:30AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 325
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?bradb+CSCL3173W+Fall2016
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16940/1179
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Spring 2017  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (50716)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed, Fri 09:05AM - 09:55AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
'Everyday life' is where we spend a majority of our existence, and on the surface, it would seem that there is not much 'interesting' or 'original' about everyday life. Yet, the 'everyday' is a lens through which we understand the most basic (and most complicated) aspects of our identities, desires, relationships, and worldviews. 'The Rhetoric of Everyday Life' will pursue the goal of better understanding the ways in which and reasons why the 'everyday' is so often ignored or dismissed, as well as our own part in this rhetoric and practice. We will attempt to answer, among others, these questions: How does 'everyday life' contribute to the formation and regulation of human consciousness? What do these everyday choices and practices reveal about our personal identity, perceptions, thoughts, values, and understanding of the world around us? How do we discern between what we need and desire to both sustain and satisfy us? How do we understand why the world is the way it is, and how we should function in it? The unifying theme of the course will be the revolutionary (in all senses) nature of everyday life. We will also pay particular attention to the dynamic relationships between consumer capitalism, politics, and the rhetorics and practices of contemporary citizenship.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50716/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 July 2013

Spring 2017  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (52135)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Kolthoff Hall 135
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52135/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Fall 2016  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (16950)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ectrapp+CSCL3173W+Fall2016
Class Description:
Aristotle's classical definition of rhetoric, "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion," does far more to identify a problem than it does to present a definition. In this class, we'll consider how the problem that Aristotle presents--the problem of how we see, or read, speech--brings into focus the problem of everyday life. How does an idea or concept of "everyday life" allow us to see or to read life? In one sense, everyday life registers the tension between the ordinary and the exceptional, between the repeatable and the irreversible, and between various attitudes of philosophic, aesthetic, and political reflection and activity. The class is divided into three parts: first, we consider theories of rhetoric, speech, and discourse; second, we consider everyday practices, in particular the commodity, work, and the division of labor; and third, we consider how the rhetoric of the everyday comes to bear on life, on the anthropological registration of life and the everyday violence of the life-processes. Includes texts by Ingeborg Bachman, Sigmund Freud, Alice Notley, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Selma James, Mass Observation, Masao Adachi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Harryette Mullen, Claudia Rankine, and others.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/16950/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 October 2015

Fall 2016  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (17432)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/06/2016 - 12/14/2016
Tue, Thu 08:15AM - 09:30AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 145
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?bradb+CSCL3173W+Fall2016
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/17432/1169
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Spring 2016  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (52499)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?ectrapp+CSCL3173W+Spring2016
Class Description:
Aristotle's classical definition of rhetoric, "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion," does far more to identify a problem than it does to present a definition. In this class, we'll consider how the problem that Aristotle presents--the problem of how we see, or read, speech--brings into focus the problem of everyday life. How does an idea or concept of "everyday life" allow us to see or to read life? In one sense, everyday life registers the tension between the ordinary and the exceptional, between the repeatable and the irreversible, and between various attitudes of philosophic, aesthetic, and political reflection and activity. The class is divided into three parts: first, we consider theories of rhetoric, speech, and discourse; second, we consider everyday practices, in particular the commodity, work, and the division of labor; and third, we consider how the rhetoric of the everyday comes to bear on life, on the anthropological registration of life and the everyday violence of the life-processes. Includes texts by Ingeborg Bachman, Sigmund Freud, Alice Notley, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Selma James, Mass Observation, Masao Adachi, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Harryette Mullen, Claudia Rankine, and others.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52499/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
17 October 2015

Spring 2016  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (58494)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 355
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?jebutler+CSCL3173W+Spring2016
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/58494/1163
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Fall 2015  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (21786)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 345
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?CSCL3173W+Fall2015
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it. Class Time: 25% lecture, 50% discussion, 25% other Work Load: 50 pages of reading per week, 20 pages of writing per semester Grade: 25% mid-semester exam(s), 50% written report(s)/paper(s), 25% class participation Exam format: Essay
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21786/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 January 2010

Fall 2015  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (23837)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/08/2015 - 12/16/2015
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 355
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Notes:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?fedo0049+CSCL3173W+Fall2015
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23837/1159
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (52736)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 335
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
'Everyday life' is where we spend a majority of our existence, and on the surface, it would seem that there is not much 'interesting' or 'original' about everyday life. Yet, the 'everyday' is a lens through which we understand the most basic (and most complicated) aspects of our identities, desires, relationships, and worldviews. 'The Rhetoric of Everyday Life' will pursue the goal of better understanding the ways in which and reasons why the 'everyday' is so often ignored or dismissed, as well as our own part in this rhetoric and practice. We will attempt to answer, among others, these questions: How does 'everyday life' contribute to the formation and regulation of human consciousness? What do these everyday choices and practices reveal about our personal identity, perceptions, thoughts, values, and understanding of the world around us? How do we discern between what we need and desire to both sustain and satisfy us? How do we understand why the world is the way it is, and how we should function in it? The unifying theme of the course will be the revolutionary (in all senses) nature of everyday life. We will also pay particular attention to the dynamic relationships between consumer capitalism, politics, and the rhetorics and practices of contemporary citizenship.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52736/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 July 2013

Spring 2015  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (59955)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 115
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
Aristotle's classical definition of rhetoric?"the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion"?does far more to identify a ?problem? than it does to present a definition. In this class, we'll consider how the problem that Aristotle presents, that is, the problem of how we see, or read, speech brings into focus the problem of everyday life. How does ?everyday life? allow us to see or to read life? In one sense, everyday life registers the tension between the ordinary and the exceptional, between the repeatable and the irreversible, and between various attitudes of philosophic, aesthetic, and political reflection and activity. The class is divided into three parts: first, we consider theories of rhetoric, speech, and discourse; second, we consider everyday practices, in particular the commodity, work, and the division of labor; and third, we consider how the rhetoric of the everyday comes to bear on life, on the anthropological registration of life and the everyday violence of the life-processes. Includes texts by Maurice Blanchot, Ingeborg Bachman, Alice Notley, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Raoul Vaneigem, Selma James, Mass Observation, Masao Adachi, Sigmund Freud, and others.
Grading:
50% Reports/Papers
15% Written Homework
5% In-class Presentations
20% Class Participation
10% Other Evaluation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/59955/1153
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
9 December 2014

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (23132)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
"The rhetoric of everyday life" examines how the sights, sounds, built environments, and various texts that surround us build our identities, our ways of making knowledge, and our views of the world. We'll read core works in rhetorical and cultural theory, as well as literary, musical, video and cinema texts. We'll gather materials from both high culture and everyday life to analyze and interpret. We'll engage history through archival case studies. It's an active-learning course that sets out to make sense of our lived experience and the history that surrounds it.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/23132/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
4 September 2007

Fall 2014  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (25858)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/02/2014 - 12/10/2014
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 355
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
While at first glance it might seem that there's not much that is "interesting" about everyday life, this is where and how we spend a majority of our lives, and a lens through which we understand some of the most complicated aspects of our identities, desires, possessions, relationships, and world views. In this course we will examine the rhythms and rhetoric that structure and define our daily existence, analyzing many of the cultural texts and contexts associated with everyday life (including but not limited to: bodies, fashion, money, jobs, leisure, transportation, the built environment, popular media, personal communication, daily routines, etc.). Utilizing diverse theoretical paradigms that contribute to cultural studies, we will engage the following questions: * How do we express "who" we are in relation to other people in our daily lives? * How do we decide "where" we will live and work, and what we expect from these places? * How do we know "when" it's time to work, play, or rest from hour to hour, day to day? * How do we discern between "what" we want or need to both satisfy and sustain us? * How do we understand "why" the world is the way it is and how we function in it? As well as undertaking brief comparative studies across time, geography and culture as a class, small groups will contribute to a semester-long case study to be published and peer-reviewed on our course website. Class Time: 30% Lecture, 40% Discussion, 20% Film/Video, and 10% Group Work. Work Load: 20-40 pages reading per week, 15 pages writing per term, 0 exams, 3 papers, 1 group project, and threaded discussion online.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/25858/1149
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
6 November 2008

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (57739)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
"The Rhetoric of Everyday Life" (CSCL 3173W) is a fascinating course which examines the interface between, you guessed it, rhetoric and everyday life! We will work with units on critical theory, everyday experience, other lives, and ideology at the juncture. Texts include the novel, LIFE IN THE FAT LANE, the guide, DAYS OF WAR; NIGHTS OF LOVE, and articles from Guy Debord, Frederic Jameson, Jean Baudrillard, Henri Lefebre, Betty Friedan, and others. Viewing will include the documentaries THE LOST CHILDREN OF ROCKLAND COUNTY, DYING TO BE THIN, and DREAM DECIEVERS. This is a writing intensive class, so there will be a unit on grammar and composition (it is actually interesting!), four short essays (drafts required), and group projects throughout the term (one per group). Personal requirements for this class include the ability to participate in class and to work with others, as well as receptivity to new ideas. My office hours will take place on Wednesdays from 4:00 to 6:00 in 146J Nicholson, and you want to be sure that your schedule works with that time. If not, I will also be available by appointment. You will receive a group e-mail post by January 13th listing the required texts and directions on article access.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/57739/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
3 January 2014

Spring 2014  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (66824)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
'Everyday life' is where we spend a majority of our existence, and on the surface, it would seem that there is not much 'interesting' or 'original' about everyday life. Yet, the 'everyday' is a lens through which we understand the most basic (and most complicated) aspects of our identities, desires, relationships, and worldviews. 'The Rhetoric of Everyday Life' will pursue the goal of better understanding the ways in which and reasons why the 'everyday' is so often ignored or dismissed, as well as our own part in this rhetoric and practice. We will attempt to answer, among others, these questions: How does 'everyday life' contribute to the formation and regulation of human consciousness? What do these everyday choices and practices reveal about our personal identity, perceptions, thoughts, values, and understanding of the world around us? How do we discern between what we need and desire to both sustain and satisfy us? How do we understand why the world is the way it is, and how we should function in it? The unifying theme of the course will be the revolutionary (in all senses) nature of everyday life. We will also pay particular attention to the dynamic relationships between consumer capitalism, politics, and the rhetorics and practices of contemporary citizenship.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66824/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 July 2013

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (29657)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
'Everyday life' is where we spend a majority of our existence, and on the surface, it would seem that there is not much 'interesting' or 'original' about everyday life. Yet, the 'everyday' is a lens through which we understand the most basic (and most complicated) aspects of our identities, desires, relationships, and worldviews. 'The Rhetoric of Everyday Life' will pursue the goal of better understanding the ways in which and reasons why the 'everyday' is so often ignored or dismissed, as well as our own part in this rhetoric and practice. We will attempt to answer, among others, these questions: How does 'everyday life' contribute to the formation and regulation of human consciousness? What do these everyday choices and practices reveal about our personal identity, perceptions, thoughts, values, and understanding of the world around us? How do we discern between what we need and desire to both sustain and satisfy us? How do we understand why the world is the way it is, and how we should function in it? The unifying theme of the course will be the revolutionary (in all senses) nature of everyday life. We will also pay particular attention to the dynamic relationships between consumer capitalism, politics, and the rhetorics and practices of contemporary citizenship.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/29657/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 July 2013

Fall 2013  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (34010)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 315
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
'Everyday life' is where we spend a majority of our existence, and on the surface, it would seem that there is not much 'interesting' or 'original' about everyday life. Yet, the 'everyday' is a lens through which we understand the most basic (and most complicated) aspects of our identities, desires, relationships, and worldviews. 'The Rhetoric of Everyday Life' will pursue the goal of better understanding the ways in which and reasons why the 'everyday' is so often ignored or dismissed, as well as our own part in this rhetoric and practice. We will attempt to answer, among others, these questions: How does 'everyday life' contribute to the formation and regulation of human consciousness? What do these everyday choices and practices reveal about our personal identity, perceptions, thoughts, values, and understanding of the world around us? How do we discern between what we need and desire to both sustain and satisfy us? How do we understand why the world is the way it is, and how we should function in it? The unifying theme of the course will be the revolutionary (in all senses) nature of everyday life. We will also pay particular attention to the dynamic relationships between consumer capitalism, politics, and the rhetorics and practices of contemporary citizenship.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
25% Lecture
50% Discussion
25% Other Style
Workload:
50 Pages Reading Per Week
20 Pages Writing Per Term
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/34010/1139
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
1 July 2013

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3173W Section 001: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (52962)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Thu 06:20PM - 08:50PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 125
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
This is a course about how people make other people think, believe, and do things. We will consider many ways in which this happens, including the use of images, sounds, and assault rifles. But our focus, following the tradition of rhetorical scholarship for the past several millennia, will be on the use of WORDS. We will learn how words work on people, including in quite scary ways. We will read some of the most important classical and modern studies of rhetoric. We will read some of the most offensive applications of rhetoric in contemporary American political culture. We will create the second half of the syllabus together, based on the topics and issues we decide we care about the most. We will write a lot together, as you learn to analyze other people's rhetoric and to hone your own. And yes, we will probably leave this course able to manipulate our friends (and enemies) far more effectively.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
10% Lecture
90% Discussion
Workload:
50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/52962/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
25 October 2012

Spring 2013  |  CSCL 3173W Section 002: The Rhetoric of Everyday Life (68599)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Delivery Medium
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/22/2013 - 05/10/2013
Tue, Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Nicholson Hall 110
Course Catalog Description:
How discourse reproduces consciousness and persuades us to accept that consciousness and the power supporting it. Literary language, advertising, electronic media; film, visual and musical arts, built environment and performance. Techniques for analyzing language, material culture, and performance.
Class Description:
This is a course about how people make other people think, believe, and do things. We will consider many ways in which this happens, including the use of images, sounds, and assault rifles. But our focus, following the tradition of rhetorical scholarship for the past several millennia, will be on the use of WORDS. We will learn how words work on people, including in quite scary ways. We will read some of the most important classical and modern studies of rhetoric. We will read some of the most offensive applications of rhetoric in contemporary American political culture. We will create the second half of the syllabus together, based on the topics and issues we decide we care about the most. We will write a lot together, as you learn to analyze other people's rhetoric and to hone your own. And yes, we will probably leave this course able to manipulate our friends (and enemies) far more effectively.
Grading:
25% Midterm Exam
50% Reports/Papers
25% Class Participation
Exam Format:
Essay
Class Format:
10% Lecture
90% Discussion
Workload:
50-100 Pages Reading Per Week
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68599/1133
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
25 October 2012

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