Rhetoric, Composition
and Critical Theory Course Offerings with Sample Syllabi
5311. FOUNDATIONS OF RHETORIC AND COMPOSITION (3-0) Required of those in the Rhetoric Track. Historical, theoretical, and pedagogical issues in rhetoric and composition, with emphasis on rhetoric and philosophy in conflict in respect to ethos, pathos, and logos; rhetoric and compostion as architechtonic productive arts for the disciplines; oral, literate, and electronic "rhetorics"; rhetoric as inquiry and as epistemic. Emphasis on library and bibliographical resources as they are brought to bear on those issues. Enrollment requires the approval of the Graduate Advisor in English.
5188. TOPICS IN TEACHING COLLEGE ENGLISH (1-0) Enrollment will be
restricted to teaching assistants and testing associates. May be taken for
credit a second time when course content changes; may not be counted for
credit toward degree requirement.
5331 HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE (3-0) Internal history of
English; Chronological treatment of the phonological, morphological, and
synactical development from prehistoric times to the present.
5351 HISTORY OF RHETORIC I: CLASSICAL/MEDIEVAL (3-0) A study of
the history of rhetoric from the Pre-socratics to the Medieval period with
emphasis on the Greco-Roman tradition. Attention given to major theorists
such as Plato, Aristotle, Isocrates, Cicero, Quintilian, St. Augustine, and
Boethius.
5353 PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES OF RHETORICAL INVENTION (3-0)
Examination of the art, method, and theory of rhetorical invention with
special attention given to its historical development from the classical topoi
and doctrine of stasis to more contemporary approaches; assignments
include the use of such methods.
5354 ENGLISH LINGUISTICS (3-0) Introduction to the analysis of
grammatical structures in English, concentrating on the goals and methods
of contemporary analysts operating according to a variety of current
theories, including structuralism, tagmemics, transformationalism and
discourse grammar.
5355 STUDIES IN ENGLISH DISCOURSE (3-0) Analysis of English
grammatical structures above the level of the clause including the sentence,
the paragraph, and the whole text; examination of the work of major
discourse theorists--Dik, Harris, Halliday, Longacre, Pike, and van Dijk.
Prerequisite: English Linguistics or permission of instructor.
5356 RHETORIC OF COMPOSING (3-0) Study of research into the
composing process and of the available methods of conducting research;
special attention given to such researchers as Emig, Britton, Flower and
Hayes, Scardamalia, Bereiter, and Perl; intensive self-analysis of the
student's own composing process.
5357 RHETORIC OF READING (3-0) Study of the phenomenology of
reading, focusing on the literature about and research into the reading
process; attention given to aesthetic response to literary texts and the
relationship between reading and composing; special attention given to
Iser, Kintsch, de Man, van Dijk, Barthes, Schank, Ingarden, Holland, Derrida,
and others; intensive self-analysis of the reading process.
5358 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF EVALUATION (3-0) Study of the
available means of evaluating writing; special attention given to evaluating
individual student-writing in and out of conferences and to evaluating large
group of student-writers with such methods as holistic and primary-trait
scoring; may include peer and curriculum evaluation; evaluation of student
papers.
5359 ARGUMENTATION THEORY (3-0) Emphasis on theories of writing
that concern the rhetorical aims of "to persuade" and "to convince."
Attention to forms of argumentation, claims, case construction, revision,
distinction between "Rhetorical" and "Logical" argumentation. Attention to
such theorists as Aristotle, Cicero, Perelman, and Toulmin.
5361 HISTORY OF RHETORIC II: RENAISSANCE THROUGH 19TH
CENTURY (3-0) A study of the history of rhetoric from the Renaissance
through the 19th Century with emphasis on the re-emergence of the
Neoclassical tradition. Attention given to major theorists such as Ramus,
Vico, C ampbell, Blair, and Whately.
5370 SCHOLARLY ARGUMENT (3-0) An introduction to the research for the writing of argumentative scholarly essays. Surveys research skills, materials, forms of scholarly argument, and involves the writing of a research-based paper.
5389 TOPICS IN TEACHING COMPOSITION (3-0) Seminar for investigating
problems of and approaches to teaching composition. Special attention
given to current compositional theorists. May be repeated when content
changes.
6334 TOPICS IN STYLISTICS (3-0) A study of the stylistic features of
discourse. Attention may be given to the development of English prose
style, to metrical and prosodic theory, to linguistic rhetorical-computational-affective approaches as well as newer methods such as narratology and
phenomenological analysis. Assignments include the extensive analysis of
texts. May be repeated when content changes.
6336 TOPICS CURRENT IN RHETORIC (3-0) A seminar in historical and
theoretical/metatheoretical studies of rhetoric. May include one or more
topics such as irony, ethos, tropes/schemes, the rhetoric of science, the
Sophists, metaphor, and rhetoric as epistemic. May be repeated when
content changes. (Previously, E5336.)
6352 TOPICS IN MAJOR FIGURES IN MODERN RHETORICAL THEORY (3-0) Intensive study of one or more modern theorists whose interests can be
interpreted as rhetorical, e.g., Burke, Weaver, Richards, Perelman, Booth,
Cassirer, Ricoeur, and Derrida. May be repeated when content changes.
6391 GRADUATE READINGS IN RHETORIC (3-0) Supervised individual study for students preparing for the comprehensive examination. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor and Graduate Advisor. Graded P/F/R.
5330 TOPICS IN CRITICISM (3-0) Studies in critical topics such as textual
criticism, psychoanalytic criticism, philosophy and criticism, Renaissance
poetics and literature, critical movements, or focus on a major theorist in
criticism. May be repeated when content changes.
5340 CRITICAL THEORY: THE MAJOR TRADITIONAL TEXTS (3-0) A study
of literary and cultural theory and practice from the Greco-Roman period to
the early 20th Century. May include such theorists as Plato, Aristotle,
Horace, Longinus, Dante, Sidney, B. Jonson, Dryden, Pope, Johnson,
Coleridge, Arnold, Richards, Eliot, and others.
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5360. TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL THEORY (3-0) Study of
contemporary theories of interpretation, concentrating on one or more
schools of critical and cultural theory; may include, e g, New Criticism, the
Neo-Aristotelians, Marxist Critical Theory, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis,
Russian Formalism, semiotics, speech-act theory, phenomenology,
structuralism, and post-structuralism. May be repeated when content
changes.
5380 TEXTUAL THEORIES OF CULTURE (3-0) Study of the interpretations
of culture yielded by the traditions of semiotics and hermeneutics; may
include works by the following: Lyotard, Foucault, Habermas, N. O. Brown,
Derrida, Pierce, Barthes, Deleuze, Gadamer, Levi-Strauss.
6340. METACRITICAL THEORY (3-0) A study of theories of literature from
the point of view of their systems-theoretical character. Focuses on the
writing of selected metatheorists such as Barbour, Braithwaite, Bruss, Harr,
Lakotos, Popper, Rescher, and others, on questions of the genesis,
nature, function, validity, and potential of literary theory.
6360 TOPICS IN FEMINIST CRITICISM (3-0) Studies of critical approaches
patterns of thought and discourse practiced predominantly by women from
the Greco-Roman period through the 20th Century. Examination of
relationships among gender, language, and discourse from theorists such
as Helene Cixous, Michel Foucault, Jane Gallop, Carol Gilligan, Julia
Kristeva, Robin Lakoff, Walter Ong, and Virginia Woolf. May be repeated
when content changes.
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