CMN 538

Spring 2016

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Seminar Rhetorical Theory
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Credit: 4 hours.

Study of special topics in the history of rhetorical theory.

May be repeated to a maximum of 16 hours.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
50680
Lecture-Discussion
CF
2:00PM -4:50PM
W
4103 Lincoln Hall
Finnegan, C
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/19/16-05/04/16
Section Title:
Visual Rhetoric
Section Info:
This seminar will take up theoretical, critical, and historical approaches to the study of visual rhetoric through an extended case study of the Farm Security Administration's documentary photography project (1935-1943). After a brief introduction to the history and status of scholarship in visual rhetoric, we will read published work on the FSA from within the field of Communication as well as Art History, History, and American Studies. Students will develop a set of critical practices for reading photographs, learn strategies for working with archives, and identify conceptual resources from rhetorical theory that help us understand various aspects of the FSA's work. The course's major assignment will be a research project on a specific aspect of the FSA's corpus, the product of which will be a seminar paper or, with prior approval, a multimedia work. Students do not need previous coursework in rhetoric to take this seminar.
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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