COMM 4000M - Rhetoric and Public Address

3 hours

Prerequisites: A grade of a “C-” or better in 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.