Rhetoric 10
Everyday Arguments, Everyday Violences
Summer 2007
3-5.30pm., Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 106 Moffitt
Instructor, Dale Carrico: dalec@berkeley.edu
T.A., Ben Lempert: blempert@berkeley.edu
Attendance/Participation: 15%; Workshops: 15%; Mid-Term: 35%; Final 35%
A Provisional Schedule of Meetings
Week One
May 22
Course Introduction
SKILL SET: An argument is a claim supported by reasons and/or evidence.
May 23
2-3 Minute Introduction Speeches
SKILL SET: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
May 24
Euripides, Hecuba
SKILL SET: Reading Critically/Writing Critically; Four Habits of Argumentative Writing: 1. Formulate a Strong Thesis, 2. Define Your Terms, 3, Substantiate/Contextualize, 4, Anticipate Objections; Audience/Intentions
Week Two
May 29
Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose"
SKILL SET: Intentions -- Interrogation, Conviction, Reconciliation
May 30
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"
SKILL SET: Audiences -- Sympathetic, Unsympathetic, Apathetic; Rogerian Rhetoric
May 31
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
SKILL SET: The Toulmin Schema
Week Three
June 5
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Literal/Figurative Language; Figures, Tropes, Schemes; Four Master Tropes
June 6
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Syllogisms, Enthymemes, Formal Fallacies
June 7
Carol Adams, "Beastliness and a Politics of Solidarity"
SKILL SET: Informal Fallacies
Week Four
June 12
Mid-Term Examination
June 13
Screening and Discussion of Film, "A History of Violence"
June 14
SKILL SET: Debate
Week Five
June 19
Hannah Arendt, from On Violence
June 20
Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish
Octavia Butler, Kindred
June 21
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Week Six
June 26
Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth
June 27
Mike Davis, from Planet of Slums
June 28
Take Home Final Examination Due
Judith Butler, from Precarious Life
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