Welcome to ENGL 305: Rhetoric and Public Culture!
Welcome to the course blog for Rhetoric and Public Culture: Presidential Debates in a Global Theater! This blog will serve as a medium for us to communicate about our course, which will provide you with the rhetorical tools essential for global citizen leadership. Our class will allow you to delve into classical and contemporary rhetorical principles within a featured segment of public culture. In light of the Vice-Presidential debate here on campus this fall, this offering of the course centers on US Presidential Debates. By studying a variety of political discourses from different national cultures and rhetorical traditions, we’ll consider how presidential debates are or might be perceived by the international community. How can global leaders use rhetoric for good or bad? You will contemplate this question through empirical research practices, gathering data and analyzing findings, for dissemination of results to a public audience. The purpose of this analysis will be to understand the rhetoric of political discourse aimed at the common good.
Looking forward to working with you!
Dr. Guler
One response so far
Thanks for including this course in the curriculum. It seems like a great course for students who want to be global citizen leaders. The detailed analysis of the rhetorical principles will help the students a lot in understanding the good and bad effects of rhetoric.