Monday, July 28, 2008
Toulmin Schema
Are we going to have to apply the Toulmin Schema to a given situation? If so, does anyone have any example situations? ( I had to leave class early this day, so I am not entirely sure whether we applied it to situations...) Thank you!
Monday, July 07, 2008
Syllabus for Rhetoric 10, Summer, 2008
Rhetoric 10
What Is Compelling?
The Rhetoric of Argument
Summer 2008
2-4.30pm., Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 88 Dwinelle
Instructor, Dale Carrico: dalec@berkeley.edu
T.A., Ben Lempert: blempert@berkeley.edu
Attend/Participate: 15%; Workshops: 15%; Mid-Term: 35%; Final 35% (Approximately)
A Provisional Schedule of Meetings
Week One
July 8
Course Introduction
SKILL SET: An argument is a claim supported by reasons and/or evidence.
July 9
2-3 Minute Introduction Speeches
SKILL SET: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
July 10
Euripides, Hecuba
SKILL SET: Reading Critically/Writing Critically; Four Habits of Argumentative Writing; Audience/Intentions
Week Two
July 15
Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose"
SKILL SET: Intentions -- Interrogation, Conviction, Persuasion, Reconciliation
July 16
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"
SKILL SET: Audiences -- Sympathetic, Unsympathetic, Apathetic; Rogerian Rhetoric
July 17
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
SKILL SET: The Toulmin Schema
Week Three
July 22
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Literal/Figurative Language; Figures, Tropes, Schemes; Four Master Tropes
July 23
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Syllogisms, Enthymemes, Formal Fallacies
July 24
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Informal Fallacies
Week Four
July 29
Mid-Term Examination
July 30
Screening Film, "A History of Violence"
July 31
Discussion of Film (among other things)
Week Five
August 5
Hannah Arendt, from On Violence and "Why Eichmann Must Hang"
August 6
Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish, "The Body of the Condemned" and "Panopticism"
Octavia Butler, Kindred
August 7
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Week Six
August 12
Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth
August 13
Mike Davis, from Planet of Slums
August 14
Take Home Final Examination Due
Judith Butler, from Undoing Gender and Precarious Life
What Is Compelling?
The Rhetoric of Argument
Summer 2008
2-4.30pm., Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, 88 Dwinelle
Instructor, Dale Carrico: dalec@berkeley.edu
T.A., Ben Lempert: blempert@berkeley.edu
Attend/Participate: 15%; Workshops: 15%; Mid-Term: 35%; Final 35% (Approximately)
A Provisional Schedule of Meetings
Week One
July 8
Course Introduction
SKILL SET: An argument is a claim supported by reasons and/or evidence.
July 9
2-3 Minute Introduction Speeches
SKILL SET: Ethos, Pathos, Logos
July 10
Euripides, Hecuba
SKILL SET: Reading Critically/Writing Critically; Four Habits of Argumentative Writing; Audience/Intentions
Week Two
July 15
Immanuel Kant, "Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose"
SKILL SET: Intentions -- Interrogation, Conviction, Persuasion, Reconciliation
July 16
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from the Birmingham Jail"
SKILL SET: Audiences -- Sympathetic, Unsympathetic, Apathetic; Rogerian Rhetoric
July 17
Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence
SKILL SET: The Toulmin Schema
Week Three
July 22
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Literal/Figurative Language; Figures, Tropes, Schemes; Four Master Tropes
July 23
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Syllogisms, Enthymemes, Formal Fallacies
July 24
Art Spiegelman, Maus
SKILL SET: Informal Fallacies
Week Four
July 29
Mid-Term Examination
July 30
Screening Film, "A History of Violence"
July 31
Discussion of Film (among other things)
Week Five
August 5
Hannah Arendt, from On Violence and "Why Eichmann Must Hang"
August 6
Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish, "The Body of the Condemned" and "Panopticism"
Octavia Butler, Kindred
August 7
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Week Six
August 12
Frantz Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth
August 13
Mike Davis, from Planet of Slums
August 14
Take Home Final Examination Due
Judith Butler, from Undoing Gender and Precarious Life
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