public discourse
Focuses on understanding Rhetoric in its symbolic and institutional dimensions, with special emphasis on legal and political forums. Students consider the discourse of law, politics, and society both in theory and in practice, in an attempt to understand the rhetorical nature of public judgment, action, justice, and legitimacy. Individual courses will enable close study of specific problems, concerns, vocabularies, modes of interpretation and strategies of argumentation arising in public forums of the past and present.
Courses (new numbering system effective Fall 2010; old numbers in brackets)
150 Rhetoric of Contemporary Politics [150]
151 Rhetoric of Contact and Conquest
152 Rhetoric of Constitutional Discourse [152]
152AC Race and Order in the New Republic [152AC]
153 American Political Rhetoric [153]
155 Discourses on Colonialism and Postcoloniality [155]
156 Rhetoric of the Political Novel [156]
157A Rhetoric of Modern Political Theory [157A]
157B Rhetoric of Contemporary Political Theory [157B]
158 Advanced Problems in the Rhetoric of Political Theory [158]
159A Great Theorists in Political and Legal Theory [159A]
159B Great Themes in Contemporary Political and Legal Theory [159B]
160 Introduction to the Rhetoric of Legal Discourse [160]
162AC Rhetoric of American Culture [162AC]
163 Rhetoric of Law and Literature
164 Rhetoric of Legal Theory [164]
165 Rhetoric of Legal Philosophy [165]
166 Practices of Rhetoric, Law and Politics [166]
167 Advanced Themes in Legal Theory, Philosophy, Argumentation [167]
168 Advanced Themes in Contemporary Law and Legal Discourse [167]
169 Discourse of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
170 Rhetoric of Social Science [170]
171 The Problem of Mass Culture and the Rhetoric of Social Theory [171]
172 Rhetoric of Social Theory [172]
176 Rhetoric of Material Culture
182 Rhetorics of Sexual Exchange and Sexual Difference [179]
