Rhetoric and Public Communication analyzes communication’s operation in public fora, including politics, popular culture, social movements, and the courts. Its theoretical and critical perspectives range from classically-grounded argumentation, persuasion, and traditional public address to postmodern and post-postmodern approaches consistent with recent developments in media technology as well as in feminism, cultural, and critical theories.
Faculty
Undergraduate Courses
- Commun 103 – Public Speaking
- Commun 335 – Critical Analysis of Communication
- Commun 362 – Argumentation and Debate
- Commun 402 – Gender and Communication
- Commun 413 – Rhetoric of/and the Internet
- Commun 435 – Rhetoric in Western Thought
- Commun 436 – Recent Rhetorical Theory
- Commun 472 – Rhetorics of Radicalism
- Commun 473 – African American Public Discourse
- Commun 474 – Rhetoric of Women’s Rights
- Commun 651 – Current Topics in Rhetorical/Public Communication
- Commun 667 – Great American Speakers and Issues
- Commun 672 – Communication and Social Order
Graduate Courses
- Commun 667 – Great American Speakers and Issues
- Commun 672 – Communication and Social Order
- Commun 701 – Critical Analysis of Communication
- Commun 735 – Rhetorical Theory
- Commun 762 – Argumentation in Theory and Practice
- Commun 772 – Rhetorical Leadership and Ethics
- Commun 835 – Seminar in Contemporary Public Address
- Commun 862 – Public Deliberation
- Commun 872 – Rhetoric of Constituting Communities and Social Controversy
- Commun 873 – The Digital Mirror
- Commun 874 – Rhetoric of Women’s Rights in the U.S.
- Commun 882 – Rhetoric of Kenneth Burke
- Commun 893 – Rhetoric of/and the Internet
- Commun 973 – Rhetorical Methods PhD