Overview
Description
Rhetorical theory and practice from the Classical through Medieval periods.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Restrictions
Admission to graduate standing in the department of English.
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- list and describe some key primary and secondary sources in the history of Western rhetoric up to the Renaissance.
- identify the canons of rhetoric as they developed in ancient and medieval periods in the West.
- describe basic tenets of at least one of the rhetorical practices outside the Western tradition.
- discuss recurring questions and issues raised by early rhetoricians in the context of contemporary life.
- discuss the extent to which classical rhetoric underlies educational history and informs current composition theory and practice.
- trace the development of rhetoric as a disciplinary field, with attention to the technical (handbook), sophistic, and philosophical traditions.
- describe the basic issues and methodologies of historical research in rhetorical studies.
- participate knowledgeably and confidently in written and oral conversations about early rhetoric.