Department: English
Description: Study of persuasion and rhetoric as bases for democratic citizenship and civic engagement. Equivalent course, offered as COM 183 and ENG 183; repeat policy will apply.
Credit Hours: 3
General Education: ICL - Individuals and Civic Life
Dates: 08/19/2024 - 12/07/2024
Location: Adlai E. Stevenson Hall 350A (STV 350A)
Instructor: Adam Pittman
Class Notes: ENG 183 - Rhetoric as Civic Literacy will look at how we as people engage with civic life–ranging from our political lives down to what we do in our communities–through the lens of rhetoric, or how language and persuasion are deployed in the world. In this course, we will first define what rhetoric and citizenship are and how they are a part of our daily lives. The second unit will look topically at different types of rhetoric that we experience from digital rhetorics, to environmental rhetorics, to the social and political, to labor and decolonial movements. The final unit will examine religious rhetoric and how it creates a foundation for our understanding of rhetoric and definitions of citizenship. Each student will have the opportunity to explore areas of rhetoric that interest them and weave in their developing understandings of citizenship throughout course discussions and assignments.
Textbooks have not been finalized for section.