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COM 409 - The Rhetorical Tradition



Explores the foundational intellectual traditions, voices, struggles, and technological developments that comprise rhetoric’s long history to better address contemporary crises and confront the big questions that define humanity. Topics include truth and appearance, the soul, language and power, persuasion and symbolism, reasoning and feeling, identity and social change.

 

Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Minimum grade of C- in COM 216  and Junior/Senior Standing.