Fall 2016 Graduate Courses
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375 | CCN: 23012
Graduate Seminar: Pedagogy
Instructor: The Staff
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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230 | CCN: 24517
Rhetoric and History
Instructor: Michael Wintroub
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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 …