Contemporary Rhetorical Analysis (416-0-1)

Instructors

Angela Ray

Meeting Info

Frances Searle Building 2378: Tues 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

Rhetorical analysis is a creative, pluralistic art. In this course we will investigate contemporary rhetorical analysis in two parallel ways. First, through assigned readings and class discussions, we will survey theories and practices of rhetorical analysis in the discipline of communication. We will read analytic works and discuss the perspective that scholars take in studying their chosen subjects. Second, through independent research projects, students will undertake the practice of rhetorical analysis for themselves. The class readings and the independent projects should inform one another; the readings should assist students in inventing their own perspectives and approaches, and students\' ongoing independent projects should illuminate class discussion. Students who successfully complete this course should expect to be conversant in the disciplinary vocabularies of contemporary rhetorical analysis and should expect to have produced a critical work appropriate for conference or journal submission and/or for a thesis or dissertation chapter.

Class Materials (Required)

Prasch, Allison M. The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Class Attributes

Graduate Students Only