ENGLISH 365

Special Topic in Writing Studies: Rhetoric, Public and Community

Please note: this is archived course information from 2012 for ENGLISH 365.

Description

Considers issues related to writing for the public sphere, both global and local. This course examines modern efforts to define the public sphere in terms of a space for social communication and action, but also as a quasi-political structure. It also investigates, in theory and practice, the roles of rhetoric and rhetorical criticism in maintaining communities and publics, including counterpublics.

Availability 2012

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s)  Roger Nicholson

Points

ENGLISH 365: 15.0 points

Prerequisites

30 points at Stage II in Writing Studies