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RHET 301 Junior Seminar (4)

Survey of the principles and practices of rhetorical inquiry. Focus on approaches to rhetorical criticism, rhetorical history, the history of rhetoric, and archival research. Exposure to the wide array of methodologies, critical perspectives, and citation standards in humanities-based scholarship. Prepares students to write senior-level papers and theses in rhetorical studies. Prerequisite: RHET 101 and RHET 201.

Rhetoric

http://e-catalog.sewanee.edu/arts-sciences/departments-interdisciplinary-programs/rhetoric/

In Sewanee’s Rhetoric program, students learn to research, compose, and critique public discourse and to do so from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and preceptual traditions. Students take courses in public speaking, argumentation and debate, ancient and modern rhetoric, the history of oratory and public discourse, women’s voices, protest, the rhetoric of mass and social media, propaganda, intercultural communication, and the rights and responsibilities of speakers. Accordingly, the study of rhetoric is excellent preparation not only for civic life but also for vocational callings in law, teaching, ministry, activism, advocacy, conflict resolution, diplomacy, and politics, as well as careers in communication, commerce, and the arts. Students have the opportunity to study with award-winning teachers and scholars conduct, present, and publish undergraduate research, and work in and with our state-of-the-art Center for Speaking & Listening.