COURSE SCHEDULE

Aug. 22

Orientation and Introduction
Defining Rhetoric and Theory

Aug. 27

Rhetorical Discourse and The Art of Rhetoric

Aug. 29

The Origins and Early History of Rhetoric
Sophistic Rhetoric

Sept. 3

Plato Versus the Sophists
Plato's Gorgias and Phaedrus

Sept. 5

Aristotle on Rhetoric
Aristotelian Definitions of Rhetoric

Sept. 10

Aristotelian Proofs and Arguments
Matters of Style

Sept. 12

REPORT #1 -- GROUP A

Sept. 17

REPORT #1 -- GROUP B

Sept. 19

EXAMINATION #1 DUE

Roman Society and the Place of Rhetoric
Rhetorical Theory of Cicero

Sept. 26

Quintilian and Rhetoric in the Later Roman Empire

Oct. 1

Rhetoric and the Seven Liberal Arts
Rhetoric in the Early Middle Ages

Oct. 3

Rhetoric in Christian Europe: St. Augustine

Oct. 8

The New Rhetorical Arts of the Middle Ages

Oct. 10

Rhetoric in the Renaissance
Humanism, Rhetoric, & Classical Texts

Oct. 15

REPORT #2 -- GROUP B

Oct. 17

REPORT #2 -- GROUP A

Oct. 22

EXAMINATION #2 DUE

Enlightenment Rhetoric -- Vico
British Rhetoric

Oct. 24

Elocutionary and Belletristic Movements

Oct. 29

Campbell and Whately

Oct. 31

Development of Speech Communication
Argumentation and Rational Discourse

Nov. 5

Chaim Perelman and the Centrality of Audience

Nov. 7

Stephen Toulmin and the Uses of Argument
Jurgen Habermas and the Conditions of Rational Discourse

Nov. 12

EXAMINATION #3 Due
Rhetoric in its Social Context
Kenneth Burke and Rhetoric as Symbolic Action
Rhetoric and Misunderstanding -- I. A. Richards

Nov. 14

Rhetoric as Situational -- Bitzer
Rhetorical Constructs -- Michael McGee and the Ideograph

Nov. 21

Work in Groups -- No Class

Nov. 26

Discourse, Knowledge, Power -- Michel Foucault
Texts and Deconstruction -- Derrida

Dec. 3

Mediated Rhetoric and Marshall McLuhan
Electronic Texts and the Future of Rhetoric

Dec. 5

Dec. 12

GROUP REPORTS

Due by final exam date, as scheduled by the University EXAMINATION #4