Below is the course calendar. Each week - with the exception of Weeks 3, 10, and 13 - consists of two class days.
Course calendar.
| week # |
topics |
key dates |
| 1 |
Introductions |
Day 2: Written version of speech due
Everyone gives speech in class |
| 2 |
Rhetoric, Invention, and Ethics |
|
| 3 |
Rhetoric and Speeches |
Workshop: Sophist Project |
| 4 |
Rhetoric and Ethics |
|
| 5 |
Ethical Analysis and Ethos |
|
| 6 |
Ethical Argument |
Day 1: Oral Workshop - Ethical Argument
Day 2: Oral Workshop (cont.) |
| 7 |
Pathos and Style |
Day 1: Mandatory Revision of Ethnical Analysis due |
| 8 |
Rhetorical Analysis |
Day 2: Workshop - Critical Rhetorical Analysis Essay |
| 9 |
Rhetoric and Persuasion |
Day 1: Mandatory Revision of Critical Rhetorical Analysis Essay due |
| 10 |
Rhetoric and Satire |
Deadline for Optional Revisions of Sophist Project and/or Ethnical Analysis |
| 11 |
Rhetorical Analysis |
Day 1: Workshop - Rhetorical and Ethical Analysis Project
Day 2: Mandatory Revision of Rhetorical and Ethical Analysis due |
| 12 |
Rhetorical Strategies |
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| 13 |
Rhetoric of Personal Essays |
Typed version of speech due
Final speeches begin |
| 14 |
Conclusion |
Day 1: Speeches (cont.)
Day 2: Wrap-up activities |