ENGL 4790: Rhetoric and Social Justice

Course Description

This course introduces students to rhetoric as integral to language, communication, and meaning-making. Students will read rhetorical history and contemporary scholarship and theory, apply theories to various scenarios and artifacts, and become more thoughtful practitioners of rhetoric in their own lives. Specifically, the course introduces rhetoric through the lens of social justice, offering students an opportunity to use rhetorical theories and methods to understand better current social events, activist movements, practices of civic engagement, and corresponding media representations.