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ANTH 412 / ANTH 612 / LING 410 |
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Rhetoric |
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Stephen A. Tyler and Christopher Pound |
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Course Status - 1 |
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School of Social Sciences |
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School of Social Sciences |
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Graduate Level |
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Overview of classical theories. Includes intensive discussion of contemporary theories and applications in a wide variety of More... |
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TR 10:50-12:05 |
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Aristotle, Rhetoric; Kennedy, Comparative rhetoric; Foss et al., Contemporary perspectives on rhetoric. |
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8 |
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Primarily anthropology graduate students, but also one religious studies graduate student and one undergraduate. |
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"Rhetoric Culture" (http://rhetoric-culture.sowi.uni-mainz.de/RCPOutl.htm) and major theorists of rhetoric. |
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Introduce students to the rhetorical tradition and give them an opportunity to explore its possible relationship to their adv More... |
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As oral source material, it's easy to use as an example problem for rhetorical interpretation and much more intriguing than s More... |
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Create a sustained example to return to throughout the course when explaining different problems of rhetorical theory; offer More... |
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In this course, the gap between explaining the rhetorical tradition and getting students to work through a rhetorical interpr More... |
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Lecture and discussion led by the instructors. |
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Knowledge of rhetorical tradition and ability to interpret rhetorical aspects of social and cultural phenomena. |
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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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