Border Rhetorics

Catalog description

Borders are the product of an array of tensions - globalization, nationalism, racism, classism, sexism, colonialism, etc. These tensions erupt in borderlands. In Border Rhetorics, students interrogate the role of discourse (interpersonal, organizational, rhetorical, mediated, etc.) in imagining, describing, enforcing, and violating borders. Students will also consider questions of human dignity and social justice in border controversies, in particular, attending to the role our language around borderlands impacts our treatment of people who cross borders. This course is a 3-week Faculty Lead Program Away (FLPA) based in Dublin and Belfast, Ireland.