2001-2002

 

The Faculty

 

Jim Hanson, Director of Forensics

 

Bob Withycombe, Department Chair, Associate Dean of Faculty

 

 

Keola Whittaker, Parliamentary-IE Assistant

 

 

Julie Caton, Student Assistant and Intramural Debate Coordinator

 

Brian Simmonds, Policy Assistant

 

 

 

Whitman News

·             Tom Cronin, College President
·             Jim Hanson Director of Forensics and Debate Coach.
·             Julie Caton, Whitman Forensics Assistant
·             Keola Whittaker, Assistant Parliamentary and IE Coach
·             Brian Simmonds, Policy Assistant Coach
 

2001-2002

1. The new reid center opened in January.

 

2. Nader visited campus.

 

3. Maya Angelou canceled her vist.

 

4. Rainbow Rage’s theme is Pink.

 

5. Charle’s and Thad, Whitman’s top debate team, place 5th in the nation.

 

6. Whitman won Northwestern’s debate tournament.

 

7. Library begins and ends its e-reserve program.

 

8. Blue Moon includes controversial material which the traditional publisher refused to print.

 
Nikki and Jim research rhetoric resources.
 

Rhetoric and Film Studies Courses

CHANGE: The department is renamed the Rhetoric and Film Studies department as Robert Sickles is added as a third member of the department. The forensics team gets two rooms with computers, scanners and printers for use plus a practice room and a cove for their heavy tubs of briefs. Hunter 307, 306 are preparation rooms. 305 is a storage room. 204 is for evidence distribution, practice, and work. bob’s office 303, jim’s office 308, “the cove” for debate tubs was hunter 310.

Courses treat Rhetoric as a liberal art, proposing that such communication is not a skill learned by rule but an exercise of judgment that can be no better than the communicator's understanding of the nature of the communicative acts.

 

The Rhetoric minor: A minimum of twenty credits in Rhetoric and Film Studies that consists of course work in two areas of study: (A) a four credit Performance requirement to be satisfied through Rhetoric 110, 210, or four credits of Rhetoric 221 or 222; (B) a sixteen credit Theory, Criticism, and Case Study requirement to be satisfied through Rhetoric 240, 270, 370, 379, and 380. Up to four credits of departmentally approved Rhetoric 401 and 402 may be taken to satisfy the Theory, Criticism, and Case Study requirement. Minor modifications in this program may be made with the approval of the department.

 

RHETORIC 110. Fundamentals of Public Address, 4 hours.

RHETORIC 121, Basic Intercollegiate Forensics, 1 hour

RHETORIC 221, Public Address in Intercollegiate Forensics, 2 hours

RHETORIC 222, Debating in Intercollegiate Forensics, 2 hours

RHETORIC 240, Rhetorical Explorations: Gender, Class and Race, 4 hours

RHETORIC 270. Persuasion, Agitation and Social Movements, 4 hours.

RHETORIC 370. Seminar: Western Rhetorical Thinking, 4 hours.

RHETORIC 379, 380. Special Topics Courses. Rhetorical Criticism, Freedom of Rhetoric, Background of African American Protest Rhetoric, Argument in the Law and Politics, Political Campaign Rhetoric: Persuading America

RHETORIC 401, 402. Independent Study.

 

World News

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Team Awards

 
 
POLICY DEBATE