Fall 2016 Graduate Courses

375 | CCN: 23012

Graduate Seminar: Pedagogy

Instructor: The Staff

244 | CCN: 23119

Graduate Seminar: Special Topics in Rhetoric

Body-Conscious Learning

Instructor: Marianne Constable

Schedule to be determined The seminar this semester will meet every other week to discuss textual and visual materials relating to issues of learning, awareness and movement. It is designed to supplement a studio class being offered from 12 to …

244A - 001 | CCN: 23120

Special Topics in Rhetoric

Christopher Bollas

Instructor: Whitney Davis

For 1 unit only. This seminar will explore the work of the most influential psychoanalyst writing in English today, Christopher Bollas (http://psychoanalysis.org.uk/our-authors-and-theorists/christopher-bollas), who will be scholar-in-residence …

240G - 001 | CCN: 23131

Rhetorical Theory

The Layers of the World: Law, History, Political Theology

Instructor: Samera Esmeir

What are the world’s constitutive forces and dimensions, how have its signifiers shifted, and what are the political and ethical consequences of these shifts? Several contemporary disciplines that attach the concept “world” to …

240G - 002 | CCN: 23132

Rhetorical Theory

Anthroperiphery

Instructor: Nasser Zakariya

A widespread historiographic, scientific, philosophical and cultural narrative is that humanity has increasingly been realizing its own marginality. This course will examine historical and contemporary underpinnings of this narrative, focusing …

240G - 003 | CCN: 23133

Rhetorical Theory

Instructor: James I. Porter, Ramona Naddaff

Inquiries into the self, its nature, its possibilities, and its limits are a mainstay of contemporary theoretical, cultural, and political thought. Historical perspectives from antiquity onward are capable of challenging and enriching this kind …

200 | CCN: 24365

Classical Rhetorical Theory and Practice

Instructor: Ramona Naddaff

Inquiries into the self, its nature, its possibilities, and its limits are a mainstay of contemporary theoretical, cultural, and political thought. Historical perspectives from antiquity onward are capable of challenging and enriching this kind …

240F | CCN: 24503

Legal Rhetoric and Philosophy

Law, Language, Writing and Information

Instructor: Marianne Constable

The seminar this semester will consider some of the ways in which law is a system of information. Some readings will be quite grounded accounts of law and writing or documents; others will consist in more theoretical approaches to contemporary …

230 | CCN: 24517

Rhetoric and History

Instructor: Michael Wintroub

244 - 002 | CCN: 34650

Global Urban Humanities

Cities and Bodies

Instructor: Susan Moffat

What does it mean for a human body to experience a city? How do the everyday performances of bodies of different races, genders, and identities operate in the context of urban built form? What is the role of our five senses and emotions in …