English 7620 Schedule
Spring 2017

** Last Updated: April 11, 2017 **

Week 1 | January 10

• Course Introduction
• For next class, read
  • Knoblauch’s DI, Ch 1 – 3
  • Covino & Jolliffe’s “What Is Rhetoric?” (PDF)

Week 2 | January 17 | Rhetorical Foundations

• Discuss Knoblauch, Covino & Jolliffe
• Sample R² Trading Card: Gorgias
• For next January 31 class, read
  • Knoblauch’s DI, Ch 4
  • Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 3 Ch X (PDF)
  • Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” (PDF)

Week 3 | January 24 | Guest: Dr. Katie Manthey

• Dr. Manthey, “Rhetorics of Embodiment”
• For next class, read
  • Knoblauch’s DI, Ch 4
  • Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book 3 Ch X (PDF)
  • Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste” (PDF)

Week 4 | January 31 | Enlightenment Rhetorics

• Discuss  Enlightenment Rhetorics
• For next class, read
  • Campbell, Philosophy of Rhetoric, VII & Philosophy of Rhetoric, X
  • Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belle Lettres, XXXI
  • Miller, from The Formation of College English
• For Feb 14, begin working on your first Rhetorical Trading Cards

Jean-Jacques Rouseau	Giambattista Vico	Richard Whately	Frederick Nietzsche	Frederick Douglass
Sharieka	Cecilia	Constance	Michelle	Tara

Week 5 | February 7 | Enlightenment Rhetorics Go to School

• Discuss School Rhetorics, Handbooks, and the Invention of FYC: The English/Scottish Connection
• For next class, read
  • Bain, English Composition & Rhetoric
  • Hill, Principles of Rhetoric
  • Crowley, Methodical Memory
  • Connors, “The Rise and Fall of the Modes of Discourse“

Week 6 | February 14 | Enlightenment Rhetorics Go to School

• Due: Rhetorical Trading Cards #1
• Discuss School Rhetorics, Handbooks, and the Invention of FYC: The Harvard Tradition
• For next class, read
  • Wells, “Lynch Law in All Its Phases“
  • Grimke, “Letter to Theodore Weld“
  • Stewart, “Lecture Delivered to Franklin Hall“
  • Royster, “To Call a Thing by Its True Name“
  • Tom Fox, “From Freedom to Manners“

Week 7 | February 21 | Pulpits and Parlors: 19th Century Alt-Rhet

• Discuss non-School Rhetorical Spaces
• For next class, read
  • Nietzsche, “Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense“
  • Burke, “Ritual Drama as ‘Hub’” (e.g., the Parlor)
  • Burke, “Terministic Screens“
  • Burke, “Identification & Consubstantiation“
  • Clark, “Kenneth Burke, Identification, and Rhetorical Criticism in the Writing Classroom” (KBJournal)

Week 8 | February 28 | Burke: New Century, New Rhetorics

• Discuss Pentads, Terministic Screens, and Identification
• For March 14 class, finish the Textbook Survey & write your Genealogy Project Proposal. Proposal should be around 300-400 words and include the following information: concept/idea you’re tracing, a rationale (why you find this interesting), and a preliminary list of resources you’ve discovered (working bibliography).
• For March 21, prepare your second Rhetorical Trading Card

John Dewey	Jürgen Habermas	Helene Cixous	Henry Louis Gates	Gloria Anzaldúa
Tara	Michelle	Constance	Cecilia	Sharieka

March 7 | SPRING BREAK

 

Week 9 | March 14 | CCCC

• Due Textbook Survey & Genealogy Project Proposal
• For next class, read
  • Knoblauch, “Expressivist Rhetoric” (Ch5) & “Sociological Rhetoric” (Ch 6)
  • Scott, “Rhetoric as Epistemic“
  • Bitzer, “The Rhetorical Situation“
  • Vatz, “Myth of the Rhetorical Situation“
  • Althusser, “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses“

Week 10 | March 21 | Epistemic Rhetorics

• Due: Rhetorical Trading Card #2
• Discuss Epistemic Rhetorics
• For next class, consider what we’ve read so far about rhetorical practices, values, etc., and come to class with an idea for something you might teach a first-year writing student about rhetoric that centers on that idea/concept/value.
• For next class, read Foucault and Butler (3 texts) and at least one of the supporting texts by Biesecker, Frank, or Olson & Worsham:
  • Foucault, “The Discourse on Language” & “Scientia Sexualis” (from The History of Sexuality, Vol 1)
  • Biesecker, “Foucault and the Question of Rhetoric“
  • Frank, “Michel Foucault“
  • Butler, “Imitation & Gender Insubordination“
  • Olson & Worsham, “Changing the Subject: Judith Butler’s Politics of Radical Resignification“

Week 11 | March 28 | Class Canceled (Professor Sick) Foucault & Butler

• Discuss Foucault & Butler
• Activity: Teaching Rhetoric
• For next class, create a rough draft of your “teaching rhetoric” idea into something that you could share with other teachers.
• For next class, read “Our Story Begins Here” and the pieces by Gilyard and Nunley; choose 1 of the remaining 3 pieces (Powell, Lyons, Haas) to read as well.
  • Powell et al, “Our Story Begins Here” (link)
  • Powell, “Rhetorics of Survivance“
  • Lyons, “Rhetorical Sovereignty“
  • Haas, “Wampum as Hypertext“
  • Gilyard, “African American Rhetoric“
  • Nunley, “Hush Harbor Rhetoric“

Week 12 | April 4 |Foucault & Butler

• Discuss Foucault & Butler
• Activity: Teaching Rhetoric
• For next class, create a final draft of your “teaching rhetoric” activity: this should include a brief description of the activity (what’s it about and what is/are the ‘outcome(s)’ or ‘goal(s)’ of the activity), a clear articulation of the process/procedure for teaching the activity, and any handouts that you’d use to teach this lesson/activity.
• For next class, read “Our Story Begins Here” and the pieces by Gilyard and Nunley; choose 1 of the remaining 3 pieces (Powell, Lyons, Haas) to read as well.
  • Powell et al, “Our Story Begins Here” (link)
  • Powell, “Rhetorics of Survivance“
  • Lyons, “Rhetorical Sovereignty“
  • Haas, “Wampum as Hypertext“
  • Gilyard, “African American Rhetoric“
  • Nunley, “Hush Harbor Rhetoric“

Week 13 | April 11  | Engaging Cultural Rhetorics

• Discuss Cultural Rhetorics
• Activity: Teaching Rhetoric
• For next class, bring a draft of your Genealogy Project to class for peer review.
• For next class, read
  • Hawk, A Counter-History of Composition, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 2, and Chapter 6

Week 14 | April 18 | Alternative Histories of Comp/Rhet

• Discuss Hawk’s Counter-History
• Activity: Peer Review of Genealogy Project Draft
• For April 25, finish your Genealogy Project.

Week 15 | April 25 – April 29 | Genealogy Projects Due

• April 25 | Genealogy Projects emailed to Dr. Banks by 5:00 pm will receive feedback and students may revise based on comments from the instructor.
• April 29 | Genealogy Projects (final drafts) must be emailed to Dr. Banks by 5:00 pm.