| Title: | Global Rhetorics |
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| Course Section Number: | RHE-370-01 |
| Department: | Rhetoric |
| Description: | RHE 370 = MAS 360 = BLS 300-03 = ASI 312: Global Rhetorics. We live and communicate in a global society. With the advent of modern technologies and the availability of diverse media, our contemporary moment is saturated by a plurality of rhetorics from around the world. We lament the plight of refugees fleeing from war and authoritarian governments (e.g., Syria; North Korea). We grapple with the global nature of problems such as climate change and how such issues will impact different regions inequitably (e.g., Micronesia; The Maldives). We take stock of the ramifications of historical systems of colonial, orientalist, and imperialist oppression (e.g., Apartheid in South Africa; ownership and exhibition of cultural artifacts such as the Rosetta Stone in the United Kingdom). And we watch as citizens organize in protest against their governments, often spurred by the power of social media (e.g., the Arab Spring; activism within the U.S./Mexico/Central American borderlands). This course will focus on these and other case studies from around the world with the aim of exploring the following fundamental question: "what is the role of rhetoric within a global world?" In a seminar style class, we will begin by conceptualizing and critiquing the Western origins of rhetoric in ancient Greece and Rome and working through prominent comparative approaches to this European rhetorical tradition from Africa, Asia, and the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia. We will then dwell with a variety of global case studies, including those above, to chart the ways that rhetoric is theorized and practiced divergently around the world today. To supplement these case studies, this course will feature a series of guest lectures/discussions with scholars exploring the practice of rhetoric outside of the United States (including in places such as Sweden, China, and Israel). This course fulfills the Literature/Fine Arts distribution requirement. 1 credit. Prerequisites: None |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 14, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/15/2019-05/02/2019 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Hays Science, Room 002
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| Faculty: | Geraths, Cory |
| Requisite Courses: | Prerequisite: FRT-101 (Freshman Tutorial). |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 20 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 14 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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