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ANTH 412 / ANTH 612 / LING 410 Rhetoric
Course Number ANTH 412 / ANTH 612 / LING 410
Title Rhetoric
Instructors Stephen A. Tyler and Christopher Pound
Status Course Status - 1
Category School of Social Sciences
Level School of Social Sciences
Other Level Graduate Level
Description Overview of classical theories. Includes intensive discussion of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of  More...
Prerequisites None
Required Course 0
Required For
Class Schedule TR 10:50-12:05 
Textbooks and Required Materials Aristotle, Rhetoric; Kennedy, Comparative rhetoric; Foss et al., Contemporary perspectives on rhetoric. 
Typical Student Enrollment 8
Profile of Students Enrolling Primarily anthropology graduate students, but also one religious studies graduate student and one undergraduate. 
Major Topics "Rhetoric Culture" (http://rhetoric-culture.sowi.uni-mainz.de/RCPOutl.htm) and major theorists of rhetoric. 
Course Objectives Introduce students to the rhetorical tradition and give them an opportunity to explore its possible relationship to their adv More...
Reasons for selecting Shoah Archive As oral source material, it's easy to use as an example problem for rhetorical interpretation and much more intriguing than s More...
Objectives for use of Archive Create a sustained example to return to throughout the course when explaining different problems of rhetorical theory; offer   More...
Relationship of Shoah objectives to Course objectives In this course, the gap between explaining the rhetorical tradition and getting students to work through a rhetorical interpr More...
Primary Instructional Strategy Lecture and discussion led by the instructors. 
Expected Student Outcomes Knowledge of rhetorical tradition and ability to interpret rhetorical aspects of social and cultural phenomena. 
Evaluation Procedure and Criteria One hour-long performance/presentation at the end of the term on a topic chosen by the student, evaluated as a response to th More...
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