Rhetorical Traditions

Catalog description

This course introduces students to significant texts and movements in the history of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. The purpose of the course is to familiarize students with the role that rhetoric has played in shaping the attitudes of societies throughout the world. The content of the course may vary from semester to semester, as different aspects, movements, or periods in the history of rhetoric may be foregrounded for special attention. Any version of the course, however, will attend to central documents in the history of rhetoric and consider them within a broad historical perspective.