ClassInfo - Fall 2022 Writing Studies Classes

Fall 2022 | WRIT 5776 Section 001: The Rhetorical Traditions: Modern Era (32932)

Instructor(s): Atilla Hallsby
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: Partially Online
Enrollment Requirements:: Graduate Student
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

09/06/2022 - 12/14/2022

Mon 02:30PM - 05:00PM

UMTC, East Bank

Kolthoff Hall 133
Enrollment Status:: Open (5 of 24 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Fall 2024
Fall 2022

Course Catalog Description:: This course is designed to acquaint graduate students with different traditions of rhetorical theory. It surveys a range of rhetorical tools/methods, and sets out to assist students to find a clear purpose for using rhetorical theory and to develop a structured approach to their objects of criticism. It prioritizes Black, Indigenous, transnational, and anti-racist approaches to rhetoric, and situates those as foundational to the traditions of such theoretical traditions as semiotics, deconstruction, genealogy, affect theory, assemblage theory, and psychoanalysis. It is intended to prepare students for comprehensive exams, conference presentations, and pedagogical encounters with rhetoric.
Class Notes:: This course will meet 7 times in-person and 7 times synchronously online. The instructor will contact you with more information before the term starts.
Class Description:: Core works in modern/contemporary rhetorical theory. Twentieth-century revivals of and challenges to the Aristotelian rhetorical tradition. Units devoted to Enlightenment rhetorics; the New Rhetorics of I. A. Richards, Kenneth Burke, and Chaim Perelman; feminist rhetorical theory, historiography, and critique; deconstruction/post-structuralism. Prepares students for preliminary examinations/seminars in rhetoric.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32932/1229
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 15 April 2020

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