Writing and Rhetoric 2: Seriously Funny: Understanding the Rhetoric of Humor

Catalog description

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. In this course we'll focus our critical gaze on past and contemporary genres of humor. We will ask what are the social consequences--positive or negative--to comedic strategies? For full course description see https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2eh. For the PWR 2 course catalog visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-2. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.