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Prof. Jim Hanson, Chair of the Department, receiving an honorary award for coaching.

 

Neilen-Anderson Prof. of Social Justice Rhetoric, Heather Hayes, ready to instruct beginning Fall 2013.

 

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Prof. Patrick Belanger, a very engaging professor who will actively bring you into his classes.

 

Prof. Matt deTar, a great professor who will help you understand how to conceptualize rhetoric and to bring it alive.

 

Prof. Bob Withycombe, Washington state outstanding educator.

 

 

Rhetoric Courses

We offer a variety of courses—in public speaking, forensics, social justice rhetoric, political-legal rhetoric, and context based rhetoric and discourse theory.

 

CATALOG

with Detailed Rhetoric Course Descriptions (see Rhetoric Studies in the 2012-13 catalog)

 

PUBLIC SPEAKING COURSES

Rhetoric 110, Fundamentals of Public Address

Rhetoric 111, Fundamentals of Public Speaking

 

FORENSIC COURSES

Rhetoric 121, Fundamentals of Debate

Rhetoric 221, Intercollegiate Parliamentary Debate and Speaking Events

Rhetoric 222, Intercollegiate Policy Debate

 

DEPARTMENT INTRODUCTION COURSE

Rhetoric 230, Introduction to Rhetoric and Public Culture

 

SOCIAL JUSTICE & ACTIVISM RHETORIC COURSES

Rhetoric 240, Rhetorical Explorations: Race, Class, and Gender

Rhetoric 245, Persuasion, Agitation, and Social Movements

Rhetoric 247, Environmental Communication

Rhetoric 248, Argumentation and Social Advocacy

Rhetoric 340, Background of African American Protest Rhetoric

Rhetoric 349, Special Topics in Rhetoric and Social Justice

Rhetoric 347, Rhetorics of Identity and Nationhood

Rhetoric 348, Civil Rights Rhetoric

Rhetoric 349, Environmental Communication

 

POLITICAL-LEGAL RHETORIC COURSES

Rhetoric 350, Freedom of Speech and the First Amendment

Rhetoric 351, Argument in the Law and Politics

Rhetoric 352, Political Campaign Rhetoric

Rhetoric 356, American Public Address

Rhetoric 359, Special Topics in Political and Legal Rhetoric

Rhetoric 359, Rhetoric and Political Community

 

RHETORIC AND DISCOURSE THEORY COURSES

Rhetoric 277, Critical Perspectives on Rhetorical Theory

Rhetoric 371, Rhetoric in Early Western Culture

Rhetoric 377, Language and Argument in the War on Terror

Rhetoric 378, Rhetoric, Politics, and Postmodernity

Rhetoric 379, Special Topics in Rhetoric and Discourse Theory

 

JUNIOR SEMINAR, THESIS, INDEPENDENT STUDY

Rhetoric 387, Rhetorical Criticism (Junior Seminar)

Rhetoric 491, Thesis in Rhetoric Studies

Rhetoric 498, Honors Thesis in Rhetoric Studies

Rhetoric 401, 402, Independent Study

 

Distribution: Rhetoric courses count toward humanities except in these areas:

Fine arts: Rhetoric 110, 111, 245, 248

Cultural pluralism: Rhetoric 240, 245, 340, 379

Do not count toward distribution: Rhetoric 121, 221, 222

 

 

 

 

 

Whitman College

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