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department Rhetoric (X) |
Rhetorical approach to reading and writing argumentative discourse. Close reading of selected texts; written themes developed from class discussion and analysis of rhetorical strategies. Satisfies the first half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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Intensive argumentative writing drawn from controversy stimulated through selected readings and class discussion. Satisfies the second half of the Reading and Composition requirement.
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An introduction to practical reasoning and the critical analysis of argument. Topics treated will include: definition, the syllogism, the enthymeme, fallacies, as well as various non-logical appeals. Also, the course will treat in introductory fashion some ancient and modern attempts to relate rhetoric and logic.
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Introduction to the study of rhetorical interpretation, treating how the action of tropes, figures, and performance generates meaning in communication: from fiction and other forms of literature, to politics, to film, to visual and material culture generally.
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The Berkeley Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small-seminar setting. Berkeley Seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester.
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Examination of basic principles of rhetoric and strategies of argumentation, with practice in oral argument.
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Freshman and sophomore seminars offer lower division students the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member and a group of peers in a small-seminar setting. These seminars are offered in all campus departments; topics vary from department to department and from semester to semester.
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This course focuses on the rhetorical construction of American identity. Drawing from among African American, Native American, Asian American, Latino, and European American oral and written traditions, the course will explore what it means to be "American." The course will analyze and compare specific performances of identity and consider how these performances construct, maintain, and revolutionize cultural and ethnic identifications.
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Students think about and engage in experiments in the interactions between new media and perceptions/performances of embodiment, agency, citizenship, collective action, individual identity, time and spatiality. This courses focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, and disability in the U.S. and how the new media reinforce social hierarchies yet offer possibilities of transcendence. New media can divide and disenfranchise, yet they also liberate in unexpected ways. This course explores these strands and the links between them.
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A broad consideration of the historical relationships between philosophy, literature, and rhetoric, with special emphasis on selected themes of the classical and medieval periods.
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A broad consideration of the historical relationship between philosophy, literature, and rhetoric, with special emphasis on selected themes within the early modern and modern periods.
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An examination of the relations between rhetoric, discourse, and knowledge in selected historical eras, for example the European Renaissance, the Atlantic Enlightenment, or Victorian Britain.
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Study and practice of advanced techniques of argumentation for students with well-developed writing skills. Ethical, logical and pathetic appeals; control of register and tone; assessment of a wide variety of real audiences; genre studies.
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Study of a particular genre (e.g., detective/mystery, horror/thriller, melodrama) with attention to theories of genre in popular culture.
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Examination of the way character is created in drama by repetitive rhetorical patterns and the ways themes are defined by manipulation of such patterns.
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The class studies poetry from diverse cultures as performance art. It examines the creative processes of poetry through oral interpretive techniques. Students will engage in ethnographic explorations into the "field" of poetry in the large community of poets who perform poetry in readings around the Bay Area.
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Consideration of the relationship between the texture of poetic discourse largely defined by figures of speech and overall poetic structures.
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Close examination of the adaptation of written fiction to the cinema. Focus on the problems arising from the transformation of five novels, which will be read, into their filmed versions.
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Consideration of the rhetoric of hermeneutics or biblical interpretation with special emphasis on the mythical, symbolic, and allegorical language as the bearer of persuasive intention.
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Consideration of the rhetoric of hermeneutics or biblical interpretation with special emphasis on the mythical, symbolic, and allegorical language as the bearer of persuasive intention. Also listed as Religious Studies C111.
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Analysis of rhetorical practice in the context of social and cultural change with particular reference to the historical transition from pre-industrial to industrial society in the west.
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Analysis of rhetorical practice in the context of social and cultural change with particular reference to the historical transition from pre-industrial to industrial society in the west. Also listed as History C193.
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A study of a film topic not covered by the other film categories. This course might focus on the work of a single filmmaker, a particular cinematic "theme," or a nonhistoric and nongeneric category. Examples: Feminist Film Practice, Gay and Lesbian Cinema, Race and Cinematic Representation, Alfred Hitchcock.
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