COMM 4000 - Rhetoric and Public Address (M)

3 hours

Prerequisites: COMM 1050 and COMM 2050. This course examines pivotal speeches of the American twentieth century via descriptive, interpretive and critical paradigms of rhetorical criticism. Alongside these speeches, students will learn and employ methods of criticism including neo-Aristotelian, close-textual, generic, metaphorical, dramatistic, feminist, fantasy-theme, ideological, and ideographic.When Offered: One 3000-4000 level each Fall & Spring rotated every 3 years