Rhetoric
College of Letters and Science
Department Office: 7408 Dwinelle Hall, (510) 642-1415
Chair: Marianne Constable, PhD
Department Website: Rhetoric
Overview
Rhetoric majors are trained in the history of rhetorical theory and practice, grounded in argumentation and in the analysis of the symbolic and institutional dimensions of discourse. The department offers both a pragmatic understanding of the elements of rhetorical analysis-with special attention to logic, style, tropes, figures, images-and a thorough grounding in the historical development of these elements in rhetorical theory. The combination allows students to make a disciplined grasp of the contemporary character of rhetoric and language. Through its emphasis on the history and theory of rhetoric, the department provides an understanding of the format of contemporary theories of interpretation as well as an opportunity, within this framework, to explore the role of persuasion in pragmatic and aesthetic contexts.
Note: The major is not intended to provide skills-based training in oral argument or communication.
Major Requirements
Undergraduates may concentrate in one of the following areas: history and theory of rhetoric, public discourse, and narrative and image.
Majors must complete the following course requirements:
- Rhetoric 10 and 20 in the lower division
- Rhetoric 103A and 103B in the upper division
- Five additional upper division courses in Rhetoric (three in the specified area of concentration and one in each of the other areas).
- Additionally, majors are required to take one course outside the department related to the specified area of concentration in the major.
Students must complete Rhetoric 10 or 20 with letter grades of C or better before declaring the major. These courses are prerequisite to all upper division courses unless otherwise specified. Lower division requirements should be completed by the start of the junior year. Rhetoric 103A and 103B should be completed in sequence during the junior year; senior year is recommended for coursework in the specified area of concentration. However, concurrent enrollment in 103A and 103B and other upper division courses in rhetoric is permitted.
A C average in all upper division rhetoric courses and the designated course outside the major is required to finish the major program successfully. No course taken for a passed/not passed grade will be allowed toward credit for the major.
History and Theory of Rhetoric
This area focuses upon understanding the development of rhetorical theory and practice from its genesis in the classical period to its situation in the present. Students will consider how the discipline of rhetoric has both shaped and itself been shaped by social, political, technological, and intellectual developments over the course of two millennia. Individual courses will enable close study of the process of rhetoric's influence and adaptation, both in theory and in practice, in specific contexts throughout its history. Courses in this area include 104, 105T, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 114, 116, 117, 118, 189.*
Public Discourse
This area focuses upon 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 political 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 in this area include: 150, 151, 152, 152AC, 153, 155, 156, 157A-157B, 158, 159A-159B, 160, 162AC, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 170, 171, 172, 176, 182, 189 (if course topic is appropriate).
Narrative and the Image
This area focuses upon understanding the function of rhetoric in literary, cinematic, and visual texts, with emphasis on the role of figure and image in the representation of reality. Students consider the production and reception of narrative "literature"—oral, epic, folktale, lyric poem, novel, etc. and film—in an attempt to understand the boundaries of the aesthetic text as a rhetorical analysis of particular literary and visual genres arising in a variety of cultures and historical epochs. Courses in this area include: 121, 122, 123, 124, 127, 128T, 129, 129AC, 130, 131T, 132T, 133T, 134, 135T, 189 (is course topic is appropriate).
Declaring the Major
Declare rhetoric after completing Rhetoric 10 or 20 with letter grades of C or better. Obtain a "Petition to Declare the Major" form and the rhetoric major application from the undergraduate assistant in 7406 Dwinelle Hall. Present a copy of your transcript along with your petition and application to the undergraduate assistant for an approval signature and a brief orientation.
Passed or Not Passed
No course taken on a passed/not passed basis may be used to satisfy a requirement for the major or minor.
Honors Program
Seniors must complete Rhetoric 10, 20, 103A, and 103B and maintain a minimum 3.7 grade point average (GPA) in rhetoric and a 3.5 overall Berkeley GPA to undertake the two-semester honors thesis series, Rhetoric H190A-H190B. Students work under the supervision of a selected rhetoric faculty member. Four units of credit (2 units each semester) for the H190A-H190B sequence may be applied toward graduation as upper division units and fulfillment of one major upper division course. Honors candidates who complete the 4-unit course with a letter-grade of A- or better and maintain the required GPAs will receive a BA with honors in the major.
Seniors eligible to enroll in the honors program must begin arrangements with the faculty member who is willing to direct their honors thesis in the semester before they enroll in H190A. See the undergraduate assistant for honors information and an application. Warning: Graduating honors candidates who complete the major requirements but take an incomplete in the H190A-H190B series must drop themselves from the degree list or honors will not appear on their official transcripts or diplomas.
Minor Requirements
The goal of the minor program in rhetoric is to introduce students to the methodological procedures and interdisciplinary approach of a field that examines all disciplines from the outside and poses such questions as: how is philosophy (or law, or politics, etc.) constituted as a field? What kinds of discourses are considered legitimate within this field? And what kinds of knowledge are produced and institutionalized as a result? To this end, minors are required to take Rhetoric 10, 20, 103A, and 103B. This combination provides an overview of philosophical discourse; literary and cultural discourse; theoretical inquiry into law, polity, and society; rhetoric and theory of film, as well as experience in a diachronic overview of the evolution of these fields. Three further upper division electives from courses numbered between 104- 182 and 189 are left to the discretion of the minor student. All courses used for the minor must be taken for a letter grade.
Graduate Program
The Department of Rhetoric offers an interdisciplinary PhD program focusing on the study of rhetorical theory and the interaction of the historical concerns of rhetoric with contemporary critical theory across a broad spectrum of disciplines. Crucial to the department's approach is an investigation into the rhetorical constitution of the arguments of such fields as law, politics, literature, film, and philosophy. The interests of faculty and graduate students thus range throughout these fields and are informed by a critical interest in the rhetoric of disciplines. During their first two years, graduate students explore major areas in the history and theory of rhetoric and pursue a variety of special topics in seminars. Beginning in their fourth semester, they concentrate in greater depth on preparation for their doctoral qualifying examinations and dissertation research. Six semester courses are required, of which at least five must be graduate courses in rhetoric. They must include Rhetoric 200 (The Origins of the Rhetorical Tradition), 205 (Modern Rhetorical Theory), and a seminar offered in the department whose focus is on rhetorical matters before 1800. Because of the department's commitment to interdisciplinary research, graduate students are encouraged at every stage of their careers to work with faculty in other departments. Please check with the department for a more detailed description.
RHETOR R1A The Craft of Writing 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: UC Entry Level Writing Requirement or UC Analytical Writing Placement Exam.
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Formerly known as 1A.
RHETOR R1B The Craft of Writing 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A or equivalent.
Intensive argumentative writing drawn from controversy stimulated through selected readings and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement
Formerly known as 1B.
RHETOR 2 Fundamentals of Public Speaking 2 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks. 4 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Basic principles of rhetoric as applied to the criticism and practice of public speaking.
RHETOR 10 Introduction to Practical Reasoning and Critical Analysis of Argument 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5.5 hours of lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 to 9 hours of lecture/discussion per week for 6 weeks.
An introduction to practical reasoning and the critical analysis of argument. Topics treated will include: definition, the syllogism, the enthymeme, fallacies, as well as various non-logical appeals. Also, the course will treat in introductory fashion some ancient and modern attempts to relate rhetoric and logic.
RHETOR 12 Introduction to the Rhetoric and Theory of Popular Culture 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines both the rhetoric surrounding popular culture and the discourse inherent in popular culture itself. Envisioning popular culture as the medium of at once the most blatant and least obvious carrier of mass deployments of rhetoric in any given culture, this course seeks to uncover the various messages conveyed by what is popular and the extent to which pop culture engages in the act of creating itself and producing its own consumers. Race, gender, sexuality, and aculturation, as well as economic and power dynamics are among the issues to be discussed. The course will involve extensive reading of secondary critical texts and engagement with examples of the popular culture topic at hand in the context of critical inquiry. Topics vary.
RHETOR 20 Rhetorical Interpretation 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to the study of rhetorical interpretation, treating how the action of tropes, figures, and performance generates meaning in communication: from fiction and other forms of literature, to politics, to film, to visual and material culture generally.
RHETOR 22 Rhetoric of Shakespearean Drama 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This class examines the way in which a distinctively rhetorical concern with persuasion, tropes, topicality, and modes of appeal can be engaged in readings of Shakespearean texts. Using written documents from the period along with contemporary rhetorical criticism and theory, the class analyzes the importance of rhetoric in the production and performance of Shakespeare's plays, in their particular rendering of verbal conflict and the scene of persuasion, and in the analysis of their participation in larger cultural contests over the legitimacy of the prevailing political, legal, moral, or natural order.
RHETOR 24 Freshman Seminars 1 Unit
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 39I Freshman/Sophomore Seminar 1.5 - 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1.5 to 4 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Priority given to freshmen and sophomores.
Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 98 Supervised Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of work per week per unit.
Prerequisites: Consent of adviser.
Instruction for a small group of students on a topic initiated by those students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 103A Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 10 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10 or consent of instructor.
A broad consideration of the historical relationships between philosophy, literature, and rhetoric, with special emphasis on selected themes of the classical and medieval periods.
Formerly known as 100.
RHETOR 103B Approaches and Paradigms in the History of Rhetorical Theory II 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10 or consent of instructor.
A broad consideration of the historical relationship between philosophy, literature, and rhetoric, with special emphasis on selected themes within the early modern and modern periods.
Formerly known as 101.
RHETOR 104 Rhetorical Theory and Practice in Historical Eras 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
An examination of the relations between rhetoric, discourse, and knowledge in selected historical eras, for example the European Renaissance, the Atlantic Enlightenment, or Victorian Britain.
Course may be repeated for credit with different instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 105.
RHETOR 105T Rhetoric of Religious Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Consideration of the rhetoric of hermeneutics or biblical interpretation with special emphasis on the mythical, symbolic, and allegorical language as the bearer of persuasive intention.
Formerly known as 131.
RHETOR 106 Rhetoric of Historical Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
A study of how historical knowledge is produced and interpreted. Topics might include narrative and representation, the uses of evidence, forms of historical argumentation, and historical controversies in the public realm.
Formerly known as 173.
RHETOR 107 Rhetoric of Scientific Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Examination of the characteristic functions of discourse in and about the natural sciences; with particular examination of the ways in which scientific language both guarantees, and at the same time, obscures the expression of social norms in scientific facts.
Formerly known as 174.
RHETOR 108 Rhetoric of Philosophical Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Introduction to theoretical issues involved in applying rhetorical analysis to philosophical discourse; intensive analysis of selected philosophical works.
Formerly known as 175.
RHETOR 109 Aesthetics and Rhetoric 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Any 1A-1B sequence, upper division standing, and consent of instructor.
Study of the terms and means by which we make and defend judgments involving the exercise of aesthetic sensitivity or perceptiveness. Consideration of the relationship between aesthetic qualities and aesthetic value. Discussion of aesthetic criticism as the means by which the capacities and salience of works of art are called to our attention and brought into focus. Topics include questions of taste, expression, and affect.
Formerly known as 140.
RHETOR 110 Advanced Argumentative Writing 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week plus individual conferences.
Prerequisites: Any 1A-1B sequence or upper division standing.
Study and practice of advanced techniques of argumentation for students with well-developed writing skills. Ethical, logical and pathetic appeals; control of register and tone; assessment of a wide variety of real audiences; genre studies.
This course is equivalent to 110M.
RHETOR 112 Rhetoric of Narrative Genres in Nonliterate Societies 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Investigation of the rhetorical and cultural principles common to various genres of narrative, both prose and poetic, in nonliterate societies. Mythic, epic and folk narratives considered as well as written works from cultures in transition.
Course may be repeated for credit with different instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 135.
RHETOR 114 Rhetoric of New Media 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture and 3 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: R1A-R1B, 10 or 20, consent of instructor.
This course examines a range of digital media practices including hypertext, interactive drama, videogames, literary interactive fiction, and socially constructed narratives in multi-user spaces. Through a mixture of readings, discussion, and project work, we will explore the theoretical positions, debates, and design issues arising from these different practices. Topics will include the rhetorical, ludic, theatrical, narrative political, and legal dimensions of digital media.
RHETOR 116 Rhetoric, Culture and Society 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 103A; upper division standing.
Analysis of rhetorical practice in the context of social and cultural change with particular reference to the historical transition from pre-industrial to industrial society in the west.
Formerly known as 132.
RHETOR 117 Language, Truth and Dialogue 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Examination of philosophical dialogues from Plato to Heidegger. Focus on the interaction within the dialogue, the participation required of the reader/listener, and the relation of such interaction and participation to thinking, speaking and knowing.
Formerly known as 177.
RHETOR 118 Undergraduate Seminar on the Theory and Practice of Reading and Interpretation 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Any 1A-1B sequence and consent of instructor.
An introduction to contemporary modes of reading and interpretation in the humanities, from structuralism through psychoanalysis, with an emphasis on theories of the sign (semiotics). Examples drawn from such fields as contemporary literature, architecture, history, painting, film, and popular culture.
Formerly known as 181.
RHETOR 119 Rhetorical Places 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Studies in the history and theory of the rhetorics of place, space, and sites.
RHETOR 121 Rhetoric of Fiction 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10 or 1A-1B sequence or consent of instructor.
Study of the form and content of fictional narratives. Definition and techniques including voice, point of view, and time orders. Attention to cultural and historical contexts of selected narratives to consider interplay of works, authors, and readerships.
RHETOR 122 Rhetoric of Drama 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Examination of the way character is created in drama by repetitive rhetorical patterns and the ways themes are defined by manipulation of such patterns.
RHETOR 123 Rhetoric of Performance 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Any 1A-1B sequence, upper divison standing, and consent of instructor.
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of performance studies. While themes may vary, the course considers disciplinary genealogies from the performing arts, the social sciences, and speech act theory to investigate the many ways that humans constitute themselves and their world through performance.
RHETOR 124 Rhetoric of Poetry 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: R1A-R1B sequence, upper division standing, and consent of instructor.
Consideration of the relationship between the texture of poetic discourse largely defined by figures of speech and overall poetic structures.
RHETOR 125 Poetics and Poetry 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
Studies in the relationships between poetic theory and poetic practice from Aristotle's Poetics to the present day.
RHETOR 127 Novel, Society, and Politics 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines the complex links between novelistic discourse, society, and politics. Topics to be studied may include the social and political vocation of the and the realist novel; autobiography and the rise of liberal individualism; political censorship; and the role of the novel in imagining the nation.
Course may be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 128T The Rhetoric and Politics of Interviews 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 1A-1B sequence or 10, or 20, or consent of instructor.
As a common form of interacting, documenting, and informing, the interview plays a central role in the process of social and cultural inquiry. The interview is here not only studied in its popularized use as a form of oral witnessing and of privileged access to personalities. It is also explored in its critical and potentially creative dimensions as part of a mise en scene or a setting in which interviewer and interviewees function as social actors.
RHETOR 129 Rhetoric of Autobiography 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
Rhetorical analysis of autobiographical discourse, with specific attention to the evolution of the genre in relation to changing modes of human subjectivity.
Formerly known as 139.
RHETOR 129AC Autobiography and American Individualism 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 4.5 hours of Lecture per week for 10 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
Rhetorical analysis of autobiographical discourse in American cultures, with special attention to the ideology of individualism.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Formerly known as 139AC.
RHETOR 130 Novel into Film 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Close examination of the adaptation of written fiction to the cinema. Focus on the problems arising from the transformation of five novels, which will be read, into their filmed versions.
Formerly known as 128.
RHETOR 131T Genre in Film and Literature 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours per week plus film screenings.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Study of a particular genre (e.g., detective/mystery, horror/thriller, melodrama) with attention to theories of genre in popular culture.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 119.
RHETOR 132T Auteur in Film 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours per week plus viewing sessions.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
The study of films from the perspective of directorial style, theme, or filmmaking career. This course may focus on a single or several directors.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 133.
RHETOR 133T Theories of Film 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture per week plus viewing sessions.
Prerequisites: One UC film course.
Classical theories of film by Eisenstein, Arnheim, Kracauer, Bazin, Metz, and others. Only one or two films will be analyzed in great depth to test the power of various theories.
Formerly known as 129.
RHETOR 135T Selected Topics in Film 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours per week plus viewing sessions.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
A study of a film topic not covered by the other film categories. This course might focus on a particular cinematic "theme," or a nonhistoric and nongeneric category. Examples: Feminist Film Practice, Gay and Lesbian Cinema, Race and Cinematic Representation.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 133.
RHETOR 136 Art and Authorship 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Fall
Grading: Letter grade.
Study of narratives and visual cultures of art and its authors, including questions of what is art, who authors it, the boundaries of works and artistic personae, and how aesthetic, economic, and legal regimes of artistic authorship are historicized.
RHETOR 138 Television Criticism 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Prerequisites: Rhetoric 10 or Rhetoric 20.
An introduction to the close analysis and evaluation of television texts. Consideration of a range of examples drawn from classical television series, sitcoms, dramas, news programming, and contemporary reality television. Students learn the narrative, aesthetic, and stylistic aspects of television's story-telling modes and strategies through readings, screenings, short exercises, and a final project consisting of a substantial work of criticism and an oral presentation.
RHETOR 139 Rhetoric of Visual Witnessing 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Studies of the theory and practice of the rhetoric of visual evidence relating to catastrophe. Themes may include witnessing, testimony, the photographic record, news media, and archival knowledge around such subjects as genocide and crimes against humanity, war and other forms of political violence, the AIDS epidemic, natural disaster.
RHETOR 150 Rhetoric of Contemporary Politics 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Examination of the characteristic rhetoric of a variety of manifestations of modern politics. Emphasis on building a theoretical foundation for critically observing and participating in the contemporary political process.
RHETOR 151 Rhetoric of Contact and Conquest 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10 or 20 and R1A-R1B sequence.
This course charts the discovery and conquest of the New World; it treats the ways in which New World peoples were understood--and exploited--by Europeans. It explores not only questions relating to the origins of New World peoples, but also climate and zonal theories of race, and racial ideas of degeneration and corruption. In examining Europe's multivalent relationship with the "other," the course investigates the legal, moral, and spiritual status of New World peoples.
RHETOR 152 Rhetoric of Constitutional Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
The rhetorical context of . Examines the tradition of Anglo-American constitutional argumentation in the eighteenth century, its sources, and its implications. Readings include Locke, Hume, Montesquieu, pamphlets of the American Revolution, and Anti-Federalist writings.
RHETOR 152AC Race and Order in the New Republic 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course will explore how the social issue of race in the new American republic shaped the political founding of the United States in 1787. We will investigate perceptions of race at the time of the founding, and try to understand the origins of those perceptions. We will examine how those same perceptions affected the founding and establishment of a new nation and how they have affected our contemporary social and political discourse.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
RHETOR 153 American Political Rhetoric 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A survey of the ways in which Americans have discussed their existence as a distinct nation their rights and obligations, and the legitimate modes of political action open to them. Readings cover the 17th through the 20th centuries and may include discussion of sermons, novels, philosophy, social and political theory, autobiographies, declassified government planning documents, Congressional testimony, and films.
RHETOR 155 Discourses of Colonialism and Postcoloniality 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course critically explores key concepts and figures used in the public discourse of European colonialism to justify territorial expansion in the 19th century such as "race," "culture," "civility," and "the Orient" and their disturbing legacies for the knowledges, practical projects, and problems of contemporary postcolonial societies in a globalizing world.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 156 Rhetoric of the Political Novel 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Investigation of major 19th and 20th century works of fiction in which political stances are exploited as dominant themes; close reading of authorial viewpoints and rhetorical strategies.
RHETOR 157A Rhetoric of Modern Political Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Study of the textual strategies of important works of modern European and American political theory from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
Formerly known as 157.
RHETOR 157B Rhetoric of Contemporary Political Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Study of the textual strategies of important works of 20th century European and American political theory.
RHETOR 158 Advanced Problems in the Rhetoric of Political Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Close study of selected works of modern political theory, including debates over the nature and interpretation of political theory and the role of the political theorist. Specific themes and readings vary from year to year.
RHETOR 159A Great Theorists in the Rhetoric of Political and Legal Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
This course explores the development of one or two theorists or an important theme or issue, with close readings of major texts as well as attention to important commentators.
RHETOR 159B Great Themes in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Political and Legal Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
This course concentrates on aspects of 20th century political, social, and legal theory that are too complex to be treated comprehensively as one section of the courses in modern theory.
RHETOR 160 Introduction to the Rhetoric of Legal Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10.
The application of rhetorical methodology to all categories of legal texts.
RHETOR 162AC Rhetoric of American Culture 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture/discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing.
This course explores the ways laws and regulations in the United States identify and classify--or fail to identify and classify--groups in American society. Readings include a wide array of theoretical and historical materials as well as legal and governmental documents.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
RHETOR 164 Rhetoric of Legal Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Rhetorical methodology applied to close analysis of the argumentative framework of important works in modern legal theory.
RHETOR 165 Rhetoric of Legal Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Consideration of basic philosophical issues related to the political and moral foundations of the law.
RHETOR 166 Rhetoric in Law and Politics 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 160 or consent of instructor.
Examination of the role of rhetoric in the legal and political thought of a particular era or culture. Course may compare societies or periods. All foreign texts will be studied in English translation.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 167 Advanced Themes in Legal Theory, Philosophy, Argumentation 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 160, consent of instructor.
Thorough consideration of particular rhetorical themes in the field of legal theory, legal philosophy, and legal argumentation.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 168 Advanced Topics in Contemporary Law and Legal Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: 160, consent of instructor.
Thorough consideration of particular rhetorical themes in the fields of contemporary law and legal discourse. Sample topics include entertainment law, First Amendment law, copyright law.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 170 Rhetoric of Social Science 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Analysis of the ways in which political scientists, sociologists, anthropologists, economists and psychologists establish the authoritativeness of their claims. Focus is on the presentation of data as fact, the use of quantitative methods, and other "strategies" through which social knowledge is transformed into objective information.
RHETOR 171 The Problem of Mass Culture and the Rhetoric of Social Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Study of the textual strategies whereby the masses and mass culture emerge as objects of anxiety, hope, and scrutiny for social theorists of the 19th and 20th centuries.
RHETOR 172 Rhetoric of Social Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
Rhetorical analysis of theorists from Durkheim and Weber, as well as Marx, Ricardo and Bentham, to contemporary representatives of social and economic thought.
RHETOR 176 Rhetoric of Material Culture 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10 or 20 and R1A-R1B sequence.
Where did the first collections originate? Why did people begin to collect? How did--and do--museums and museum collections contribute to the definition of the cultural values/power of elite groups? How do we define ourselves--as citizens, as members of a discipline or tribe, as nations--with reference to collections? What values/ideologies structure the debates and conflicts over definition, meaning, and ownership of collections? These are questions we will try to answer in the class.
RHETOR 180 Critical Theories of Science 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
This course will examine the foundation of science and technology studies. Our methodology will be borrowed from critical theory and the philosophical movements upon which critical theory itself depends. The reading will be directed toward understanding those texts which form the theoretical and methodological basis for a critical theory of science and technology. The great success of science in proliferating technology into the larger sphere of modern western society has for the most part legitimated its approach and claims to be the method of attaining knowledge, at least within our own techno-scientific culture. Along with science's accomplishments, however, have come new questions as to the potential of the knowledge it brings, the technology it engenders and the power it carries. Technology is one of the means by which science proceeds, but perhaps more importantly it is the juncture between science and society as well as theory and praxis. This course will investigate the means by which writers have reflected upon science and technology.
Instructor: Cohen
RHETOR 182 Rhetorics of Sexual Exchange and Sexual Difference 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 3 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines the centrality of sexual difference and sexual exchange to the structuring of societies, cultures, and political life. Possible topics include theories of desire and corporeality; the figure of woman as object of exchange in historical and contemporary contexts such as Sati, prostitution, surrogacy and IVF, and the global traffic in female labor; and an examination of how sexual difference functions as a blind-spot in theories of culture, society, and economy.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as 179.
RHETOR 189 Special Topics 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Group instruction and investigation of topics not accommodated in regular course offerings.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR H190A Honors Thesis 2 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part one of a year long series course. A provisional grade of IP (in progress) will be applied and later replaced with the final grade after completing part two of the series.
Hours and format: Tutorial. Students must take 2 units of H190A and 2 units of H190B.
Prerequisites: Senior standing with a 3.7 GPA in rhetoric and 3.5 GPA overall.
Independent study under guidance of a faculty director culminating in a written thesis. Required of all rhetoric majors desiring to earn the A.B. degree with honors.
Formerly known as H190A.
RHETOR H190B Honors Thesis 2 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade. This is part two of a year long series course. Upon completion, the final grade will be applied to both parts of the series.
Hours and format: Tutorial.
Prerequisites: Senior standing with a 3.7 GPA in Rhetoric and 3.5 GPA overall.
Independent study under guidance of a faculty director culminating in a written thesis. Required of all rhetoric majors desiring to earn the A.B. degree with honors.
Students must take 2 units of H190A and 2 units of H190B.
RHETOR 197 Field Studies 1 - 3 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 2 to 6 hours of Fieldwork per week for 15 weeks. 6 to 18 hours of Fieldwork per week for 6 weeks.
Supervised field work in an off-campus organization or business. Field work should be relevant to themes or topics covered in the undergraduate curriculum studied in the department. Additional meetings with faculty sponsor required. Weekly journals and a final paper also required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 198 Supervised Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Tutorial.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and approval of adviser.
Instruction for a small group of students on a topic initiated by those students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 199 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Tutorial.
Prerequisites: 3.0 GPA.
For special projects that cannot be otherwise accommodated.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 200 Classical Rhetorical Theory and Practice 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
An introduction to the questions around which classical rhetorical theory and practice are organized. Through analysis of materials drawn principally from the Ancient Greek and Roman periods, possibly including later revivals of classical rhetoric, the course will examine the formation of rhetoric in the West as an intellectual stance from which to practice a range of related fields, including but not limited to philosophy, history, literature, politics, religion, law, science, and the arts.
RHETOR 205 Contemporary Rhetorical Theory and Practice 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
An introduction to the questions around which contemporary rhetorical theory and practice are organized. Through an analysis of materials drawn principally from the 18th century to the present, the course will examine rhetorical inquiry in relation to critique as well as the disciplinary construction of knowledge-domains. The course will attend to rhetoric in relation to a range of fields, including but not limited to philosophy, history, literature, politics, religion, law, science, and the arts.
RHETOR C221/COM LIT C221 Aesthetics as Critique 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric; Comparative Literature
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A close reading and discussion of the major texts of modern aesthetics, from the 18th century to the present, with emphasis on the Continental tradition of Kant, Adorno, and Derrida.
RHETOR 240D Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Nonfictional Prose 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
Advanced investigation of the rhetorical dimensions of various modes of discourse. Specific topics to be announced.
RHETOR 240E Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Political Discourse 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
Advanced investigation of the rhetorical dimensions of various modes of discourse. Specific topics to be announced.
RHETOR 240F Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Legal Rhetoric and Philosophy 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
Advanced investigation of the rhetorical dimensions of various modes of discourse. Specific topics to be announced.
RHETOR 240G Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Rhetorical Theory 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
Advanced investigation of the rhetorical dimensions of various modes of discourse. Specific topics to be announced.
RHETOR 243 Special Topics in Film 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of seminar per week plus 2 film viewings.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing.
A theoretical examination of a film topic which falls outside the purview of traditional categories of film analysis, such as "genre," "history," or "theory." Examples: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, The Essay Film, Feminist Film Practice, Cinema and the Phantasmagoria of History.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 244 Special Topics in Rhetoric: Limited study 2 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Seminar per week for 6 weeks.
This course studies various modes of rhetorical discourse. Specific topics to be announced.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 250 Rhetoric of the Image 4 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and consent of instructor.
A study of the visual image as a mode of discourse, together with an analysis of the terms in which images have been interpreted and criticized. Focus may be on the rhetoric of a particular image or set of images, or on more broadly theoretical writings about image.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 295 Special Study 1 - 6 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Forty-5 hours of work per unit per term. Individual tutorial.
Prerequisites: Graduate adviser approval.
Open to qualified graduate students wishing to pursue special topics under the direction of a member of the staff.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 299 Directed Research 1 - 12 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: Individual tutorial.
Prerequisites: Graduate adviser approval.
Open to graduate students who have passed their Ph.D. qualifying examinations.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 375 Teaching Rhetoric 2 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Professional course for teachers or prospective teachers
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: 3 hours of seminar per week.
Prerequisites: Appointment as teaching assistant.
Instruction in teaching argumentative writing and rhetorical analysis.
Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes. Formerly known as Rhetoric 300.
RHETOR 601 Individual Study for Master's Students 1 - 6 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Individual arrangement.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
Individual study for degree or language examinations in consultation with staff member.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
RHETOR 602 Individual Study for Doctoral Students 1 - 6 Units
Department: Rhetoric
Course level: Graduate examination preparation
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for satisfactory/unsatisfactory grade only.
Hours and format: Individual arrangement.
Prerequisites: Graduate status.
Individual study in consultation with faculty director as preparation for degree examinations.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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