Syllabus

Rhetoric 10 -- What Is Compelling? -- The Rhetoric of Argument

Summer 2009, Session A, 12-2.30pm., Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 219 Dwinelle

Instructor, Dale Carrico: dalec@berkeley.edu

Attend/Participate: 14%; Workshops: 14%; Mid-Term: 36%; Final 36% (Provisionally and Approximately)

A Provisional Schedule of Meetings

Week One
May 27
Course Introduction
SKILL SET: An argument is a claim supported by reasons and/or evidence.
May 29
2-3 Minute Introduction Speeches
SKILL SET: Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Week Two
June 1
Euripides, Hecuba
SKILL SET: Reading Critically/Writing Critically; Four Habits of Argumentative Writing; Audience/Intentions
June 3
Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose
SKILL SET: Intentions -- Interrogation, Conviction, Persuasion, Reconciliation
June 5
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
SKILL SET: Audiences -- Sympathetic, Unsympathetic, Apathetic; Rogerian Rhetoric

Week Three
June 8
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
SKILL SET: The Toulmin Schema
June 10
SKILL SET: Syllogisms, Enthymemes, Formal Fallacies, Informal Fallacies
June 12
SKILL SET: Literal/Figurative Language; Figures, Tropes, Schemes; Four Master Tropes

Week Four
June 15
Mid-Term Examination
June 17
Screening Film, "A History of Violence"
June 19
Art Spiegelman, Maus

Week Five
June 22
Octavia Butler, Kindred
June 24
Hannah Arendt, Reflections On Violence and "Must Eichmann Hang?"
June 26
Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish and The Will to Knowledge (History of Sexuality, Volume One)

Week Six
June 29
Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks
July 1
Take Home Final Examination Due
Judith Butler, from Undoing Gender and Precarious Life