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	Rhetoric 1A/1B
	1A  "Good Hair", Good Wine 1A  Banality 1A  Craft of Writing s1 F13 1A  Craft of Writing s2 F13 1A  Craft of Writing s3 F13 1A  Craft of Writing s4 F13 1A  Difficult Passages 1A  Feminism in a Colonial Context 1A  Hiding in Plain Sight 1A  Language, Experience, and Argument 1A  Listening to America 1A  Listening to America 1A  Listening to America 1A  No Place Like Home 1A  Reading & Composition 1A  Reason, Emotion and the Body 1A  Revealing is Healing 1A  Revolutions and Revisions and Representations 1A  Rhetoric of Reason 1A  The Rhetoric of Identity in Hybrid Texts 1A  The Rhetoric of the Text 1A  Writing the World 1A.001  Reading & Composition F12 1A.002  Reading & Composition F12 1A.004  Reading & Composition F12 1B  Banality 1B  Banality 1B  Collaborative Assemblages 1B  Craft of Writing s1 F13 1B  Craft of Writing s2 F13 1B  Craft of Writing s3 F13 1B  Craft of Writing 1B  dead words / unsettled bodies 1B  dead words / unsettled bodies 1B  Empire, sovereignty, and violence 1B  Human, All Too Human 1B  Nature, the Human, and Mediation 1B  Performing Research 1B  Reading & Composition 1B  Rhetoric of Reason 1B  Rhetorics of Everyday Life 1B  Rhetorics of the Everyday (Part II) 1B  Somewhere, Anywhere, Elsewhere 1B  Telling Fables, Fictions, and Lies 1B  The American Voice 1B  The Filipino Novel in English 1B  The Idea of Asia 1B.001  Reading & Composition F12 1B.003  Reading & Composition F12
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Rhetoric 1A/1B

Rhetoric 1A: Reading & Composition

In this course we will read a variety of short essays that attempt to analyze some aspect of the everyday. We will engage topics as wide ranging as fashion, food, race, nature, the home, language and the body, with sources ranging from philosophy to popular culture. Our readings will serve as sites for close-reading and critical engagement as a class. They will also ground and support the analyses of cultural objects, experiences and practices that you will perform on your own. Over the course of the semester we will grapple with the following questions: How does one write about the everyday? How are experiences, observations and popular phenomena translated into academic writing and thought? How can the critical tools of philosophy and theory enable us to read our everyday lives with more insight and creativity?

 This course is writing and reading intensive. There will be assigned papers of varying lengths and styles throughout the semester, as well as in-class writing. We will focus consistently on practices of close reading and textual analysis, as well as the development of 'voice'. We will also pay critical attention to the act of writing itself, the relationship between writing and reading, and the politics of style. Questions of race, class, gender and sexuality will be vital to our engagement of the texts.

Required Reading

1. Lorde, Sister Outsider (Crossing Press)
2. Barthes, Mythologies (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)