Writing & Rhetoric 2: The Rhetoric of Bodies

Catalog description

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This course will consider how rhetoric shapes our physical, embodied realities. What significance does the physical, material body have in a world of virtual reality and genetic cloning? How does communication about bodies forge cultural consensus about what types of bodies are normative? How are bodies politicized? A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2sna For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.