CI 569

Spring 2017

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Topics Discourse and Writing
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Credit: 4 hours.

Same as ENGL 584. See ENGL 584.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
56822
Lecture-Discussion
E
1:00PM -2:50PM
M
123 English Building
Schaffner, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/17/17-05/03/17
Section Title:
Protest Rhetorics
Section Info:
Topic Section E: Protest Rhetorics We live in a world that is seething with protest rhetoric. By looking at the expressive tactics deployed in an array of contemporary movements coming from both the political left and the right (e.g., #BlackLivesMatter, Second Amendment rights advocacy, environmentalism, grazing rights, Occupy Wall Street, the debate over restroom use by transgender people, and more), we will explore instances of high-stakes rhetorical action that involve social media (slacktivism?), physical occupation, gestural expression, performance, spoken and written discourse, and direct action. Students will explore contemporary protest rhetoric through various primary documents (video, images, audio recordings), journalistic accounts, academic research, and theories of communication and rhetoric. Historical work will also be encouraged. Students from departments across campus are invited to enroll and bring varied research interests and methodologies into the class.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
32288
Lecture-Discussion
G
3:00PM -4:50PM
M
133 1207 W Oregon
Pritchard, E
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/17/17-05/03/17
Section Title:
Fashion Rhetorics
Section Info:
Topic Section G: Fashion Rhetorics In this graduate seminar we will read scholarship at the intersections of rhetoric and fashion studies, a scholarly discourse cutting across a range of disciplines and fields including rhetoric and composition, literary studies, history, performance studies, ethnic studies, and sociology. We will examine a diversity of adornment performance—past and present, in everyday life and as rendered in cultural productions (e.g. arts, literature, and film) to document the emergence of fashion and style’s impact on social, political, and economic terrain, but also a myriad of critiques of fashion and style emerging from scholarly works in the field as well as in popular media. This course will especially emphasize research on rhetoric and fashion in relation to critical race theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. Engaging this scholarship, we will posit the implications of this research for the current state and next steps of fashion as an interdisciplinary field of study generally, and what the place of that field is and can be within rhetorical studies, literary studies, American Studies, and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies in particular. The course will also support the development and support of each student finding or further developing their own fashion and style studies research, writing, and creative projects, with an eye toward exploring the broad implications of their interests for theory, methodology, and pedagogy of this field. Course readings will include texts by Roland Barthes, Carol Mattingly, Minh Ha T. Pham, Valerie Steele, Tanisha C. Ford, Reina Lewis, Tiffany M. Gill, Vicki Karaminas, Anne Hollander, Elizabeth Wilson and others.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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