Seminar: Contemporary Rhetorical Theory Welcome to the Home Page for COMM 652, Fall 2014

During the semester various things may be added to this page to assist students. This will include material generated by the instructor and material generated by the students.

Contents

• Information on the Course
• Additional Material for Units of Course
• Study Aids
• Preparation Guides
• Weekly Schedule

Syllabus for Fall 2014

Information on the Course

• Basic information on the Course
• Preparing for Seminars
  • Preparting for Inquiry Sessions
  • Preparing to Lead a Seminar
  • Preparing for Argument Sessions
• Assignments
• Information on the Instructor
• Instructor's Office Hours
• Weekly Schedule

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Preparation Guides

• Symbolic Motivation
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014
• Rhetorical Argument
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014
• Rhetoric as Epistemic
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014
• The Public Sphere Problem
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014
• The Freedom/Domination Problem: Feminism and Critical Rhetoric
  • Introduction to Foucault (pdf of lecture)
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014
• Identity and Subjectivity
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014
• Implicating Morality and History
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014
• Critical Theory and Cultural Studies
  • Bibliographic Essay 2014

Additional Material for Units of Course

• A Primer on Theory
• Punctuating Accounts
• Introduction to Contemporary Rhetorical Theory
• Dramatism
• Marxism and Neo-Marxism
• Dialectical Logic
• General Systems Theory
• The -isms

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Study Aids

• Reading Rhetorical Theory
• Doing theoretical research

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Last update: December 19, 2014

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