Rhetoric of the Labor Movement

Catalog description

This course equips students to use different modes of rhetorical analysis to examine historical and contemporary artifacts in critical ways. Grading is based on class participation, tests and a final paper. The final paper requires students to identify primary source materials with a connection to either past or present labor movements and apply one or more of these modes of rhetorical criticism as the basis of an unique investigation into a particular labor movement's significant symbolic acts. Students will be expected to hone their own teaching and public speaking skills by giving at least one major in class presentation.