COMM 4000 - Rhetoric and Public Address

3 hours (M)

Prerequisites: Completion of at least 21 hours in Communication Studies; To be taken in the senior year. 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.