COMM 3410Rhetoric and Public Culture

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Prerequisite(s):COMM 2400 This course examines public culture through the lens of rhetorical theory. Using a variety of critical approaches (structuralism, post-structuralism, Marxism, feminism, etc.), we examine various aspects of public culture, including economies of production and consumption of public culture, ways to critically read public culture artifacts, and methods for recognizing implicit value and power in these texts. We engage public culture in various ways in order to investigate how public culture communicates meaning and produces personal, professional, and public identities.