Topics in the Study of Language and/or Rhetoric
Term 2
MWF, 10:00 a.m.
Rhetoric and Power surveys various ways that language creates hierarchies, distributes authority, and maintains rank, not to mention how language helps to subvert these forms of power. Along with learning some fundamental rhetorical concepts, students will examine topics such as propaganda, scientific controversies, insults, speech acts, definitions, and interrogation techniques as they apply to politics, public policy, law, and even the court of Rastafarian God/Ethiopian Dictator Haile Selassie.
