Overview
Description
This course examines how the body operates as a rhetorical phenomenon, investigates the presentation of bodies in discourse and media, and critiques ways of categorizing bodies. The course engages and evaluates different critical and humanistic theories about the body and discusses such topics as disability, sexuality, gender, Illness, mortality, and normalization.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Odd Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain prominent rhetorical theories of the body.
- apply rhetorical theories of the body in their own scholarship.
- evaluate various rhetorical theories of the body.
- identify ways social practices construct, legitimate, and privilege certain bodies.
- critique systems that rhetorically marginalize select bodies.