RHET 208 - American Political Rhetorics

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
In this course we will analyze, discuss, write about, and present on how American political rhetorics work. We will focus on contemporary campaign advertising, debates, speeches and writing by presidents and candidates, and Supreme Court rulings and dissents. We will work mostly in the television and Internet eras, when visual and social media have become central to campaign messages?and to political successes and failures. As part of our discussions of all of these elements, we will engage with questions of how identity is used to attract?and alienate?political participation. Research projects will expand from our class readings to bring in additional rhetorical forms, thus expanding our understanding of what comprises American political rhetorics.
Course Last Offered/Scheduled: Spring 2020