Areas of Study:
 
History and Theory of Rhetoric
 
Public Discourse
 
Narrative and Image
 
 
   
     
 

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  
 
131 Rhetoric of Religious Discourse
136 Rhetorical Approaches to Folklore
141AC American Cultures as a Problem in Postmodernity
150 Rhetoric of Contemporary Politics
152 Rhetoric of Constitutional Discourse
152AC Race and Order in the New Republic
153 American Political Rhetoric
155 Rhetoric of Colonialism and Postcolonialism
156 Rhetoric of the Political Novel
157A Rhetoric of Modern Political Theory
157B Rhetoric of Contemporary Political Theory
158 Advanced Problems in the Rhetoric of Political Theory
159A Great Theorists: Political and Legal Theory
159B Great Themes: Contemporary Political and Legal Theory
160 Introduction to the Rhetoric of Legal Discourse
162AC Rhetoric of American Cultures
163AC Law, Ethnicity and the Rhetoric of National Security
164 Rhetoric of Legal Theory
165 Rhetoric of Legal Philosophy
166 Rhetoric, Law and Politics in Ancient Greece
167 Advanced Topics in Law and Rhetoric
168 Rhetoric, Law and Political Theory, 1500-1700
170 Rhetoric of Social Science
171 Mass Culture and the Rhetoric of Social Theory
172 Rhetoric of Social Theory
179 Sexual Exchange
189 Special Topics (if appropriate)