309C F19 Slethaug

ENGL 309C

Course Schedule

Week	Module	Readings and Other Assigned Material	Activities and Assignments	End/Due Date	Weight (%)
Week 1	Module 1: Introduction	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 3-24. (Textbook).	Introduce Yourself	Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Ungraded
			Review Group Project topics	Sunday, September 8, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Ungraded
Week 2	Module 2: Semiotics, Language, and Discourse (Saussure and Peirce)		Groups for Discussions will be created by Technical Support	Check after Friday, September 13, 2019 at 4:30 PM
		Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 297-299, 126-129. (Textbook).	Reflection 1	Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		Chandler, Daniel. "Models of the Sign", Semiotics, The Basics. Routledge. Second Edition (2007). (PDF).	Sign up for Group Project	Sunday, September 15, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Ungraded
Week 3	Module 3: Semiotics, Language, and Discourse (Barthes and Derrida)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 126-130, 328-329. (Textbook).	Discussion 1	Sunday, September 22, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		Barthes, Roland. "Myth Today", Mythologies. Hill and Wang, (1972). (PDF).
		Derrida, Jacques. "Structure, Sign, and Play", Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass. University of Chicago Press; Reprint, 1993 edition (February 15, 1980). (PDF).
Week 4	Module 4: Traditional Rhetorics (Fish and Weaver)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 162-170. (Textbook).	Reflection 2	Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		Fish, Stanley. "Rhetoric", The Stanley Fish Reader. Wiley-Blackwell (January 1999). (PDF).
		Weaver, Richard. "The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 130-145. (Textbook).
Week 5	Module 5: Traditional Rhetorics (Kenneth Burke)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 171-188. (Textbook).	Discussion 2	Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		Burke, Kenneth. "Dramatism", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 160-170. (Textbook).	Barthes "Myth Today" Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, September 30, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
		Burke, Kenneth. "Terministic Screens", Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley, Cal. University of California Press, 1966. (PDF).	Derrida Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, September 30, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 6, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
		Burke, Kenneth. "Definition of Man", Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method. Berkeley, Cal. University of California Press, 1966. (PDF).
Week 6	Module 6: Traditional Rhetorics (Toulmin)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 96-107. (Textbook).	Discussion 3	Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		Toulmin, Stephen. "The Tyranny of Principles", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 93-109. (Textbook).	Fish Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 7, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday October 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
		Toulmin, Stephen. "Theory and Practice", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 110-129. (Textbook).	Weaver Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 7, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday October 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
Week 7	Module 7: Traditional Rhetorics (Perelman)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 108-112. (Textbook).	Reflection 3	Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		Perelman, Chaïm. "The New Rhetoric: A Theory of Practical Reasoning", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 57-92. (Textbook).	Burke Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 21, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
			Toulmin Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 21, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, October 27, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
Week 8	Module 8: Cultural Rhetoric, Critical Rhetoric, and Power (Marx)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 291-316. (Textbook).	Reflection 4	Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
			Perelman Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 28, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
			Foucault Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, October 28, 2019 at11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
Week 9	Module 9: Cultural Rhetoric, Critical Rhetoric, and Power (hooks and Foucault)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 263-290. (Textbook).	Discussion 4	Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		hooks, bell. "Reflections on Race and Sex", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 228-234. (Textbook).	hooks Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 4, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
		hooks, bell. "Teaching Resistance," Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 243-249. (Textbook).	Baudrillard and/or Eco Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 4, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
		Foucault, Michel. "History, Discourse and Discontinuity", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 283-301. (Textbook).	Submit your Research Essay Topic Statement	Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Ungraded
		Foucault, Michel. "The History of Sexuality", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 302-318. (Textbook).
Week 10	Module 10: Postmodernism (Baudrillard and Eco)	Baudrillard, Jean. "A Marginal System: Collecting", Readings in a Contemporary Rhetoric. Pages 259-275. (Textbook). Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 317- 328. (Textbook).	Reflection 5	Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Reprint edition (2001). (PDF).	McLuhan Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 11, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
			Barthes "Rhetoric of the Image" Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 11, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
Week 11	Module 11: Media, Technology, and Advertising (McLuhan, Barthes, and McNair)	Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition. Pages 113-137. (Textbook).	Discussion 5	Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Counts toward 15%
		McLuhan, Marshall. "The Medium is the Message". Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press; REV edition (Oct. 24 1994). (PDF). McLuhan, Marshall. "Media Hot and Cold". Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The MIT Press; REV edition (Oct. 24 1994). (PDF).	McNair Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final grade
		Barthes, Roland. "Rhetoric of the Image", Image Music Text. Hill and Wang. (July 1, 1978). (PDF).	Ellul and Loebs Group Project Presentation	Post Group Project Presentation for discussion on Monday, November 18, 2019 at 11:55 PM Submit Group Project Presentation and summary for evaluation on Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 11:55 PM	Group Presentation is worth 20% of your final
		McNair, Brian "Party Political Communication 1: grade Advertising", An Introduction to Political Communication. 5th Edition, Routledge (2011). (PDF).
Week 12	Module 12: Propaganda (Ellul and Hitler)	Ellul, Jacques. "The Characteristics of Propaganda", Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes. Vintage (January 12, 1973). (PDF).	Research Essay due	Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 11:55 PM	25%
		Loebs, Bruce. "Hitler´s Rhetorical Theory", Relevant Rhetoric, Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2010. (PDF).
Final Exam					25%

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Course Description and Objectives

Description

In Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, we will survey the key authors, concepts, issues, and debates of contemporary rhetoric and place them in a practical context. The first half of the course will focus on the (arguably) five most important contemporary rhetoricians (Weaver, Richards, Burke, Toulmin, and Perelman), and the second part will concentrate on contemporary rhetoric at work in culture through power relations, discourse, sexuality, race, media, advertising, and propaganda. Recognizing with Kenneth Burke “how overwhelmingly much of what we mean by ‘reality’ has been built for us through nothing but our symbol systems,” we will examine theories of rhetoric to better understand the pervasiveness of rhetoric in our ways of knowing. The class will consist of lectures, presentations, discussion, and workshop exercises.

Objectives

In this course, you will learn to:

• Explain key rhetoric theories and theorists of the 20th century.
• Apply these theories to contemporary culture.
• Compare these theories, individual theorists, and movements.

This online course was developed by Gordon Slethaug, with instructional design and multimedia development support provided by the Centre for Extended Learning. Further media production was provided by Instructional Technologies and Multimedia Services.

About the Course Author

Gordon Slethaug, PHD, MA, BA

Biography

I have taught at universities in Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, and the
United States, and draw from these experiences in my teaching and writing.
At the University of Waterloo (head of the English Department and Associate
Dean of Graduate Programs in Arts) until 1995, I then taught at the University
of Hong Kong (Director of American Studies and Lingnan Professor) from 1995 to 2008. From
2004 to 2008, I was awarded a four-year grant from the Lingnan Foundation (Yale and New York
City) to bring team teaching, interdisciplinary methodology, American studies, and Englishlanguage
instruction to the classroom at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou and to bridge
American Studies activities and research between the University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen
University, and I have written widely on the faculty and student learning transformation that
occurred as a result of this project. I remain an Honorary Professor in Arts at the University of
Hong Kong.
From 2008 until 2012, I taught American culture and communication subjects at the University of
Southern Denmark, where I had earlier been awarded a Senior Fulbright Professorship. These
included: the History and Culture of New York City; the Road in American Culture; Contemporary
American literature; Asian American Culture; International Teaching and Learning; Intercultural
Communications; Media and Communications; Identity, Culture, and Learning; HRM,
Organizations and Communications; and Communications and Globalization.
My current teaching and writing at Waterloo focuses on American culture (especially film
adaptation), rhetoric, and issues of internationalization.

Selected Publications Books

2017. Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the
American Road. New York et al: Bloomsbury Academic, 271pp.
2015. Co-edited with Jane Vinther, International Teaching and Learning at Universities: Achieving
Equilibrium with Local Culture and Pedagogy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2015. 199pp.
2014. Adaptation Theory and Criticism: Postmodern Literature and Cinema in the USA. New
York: Bloomsbury Press. 275pp.
2012. Co-edited with Stacilee Ford. Hit the Road, Jack: the History and Culture of the Road in
America. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 329pp.
2010. Co-edited with Janette Ryan, International Education and the Chinese Learner. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press. 210pp.
2007. Teaching Abroad: The Cross-Cultural Classroom and International Education. Hong Kong:
University of Hong Kong Press, 2007 and Seattle: University of Washington Press. 220pp.
2000. Beautiful Chaos: Chaos Theory and Metachaotics in Recent American Fiction. Albany:
State University Press of New York. 235pp.
1994. Co-edited with Michael Larsen, Doubles and Doubling in the Contemporary Arts., special
double issue of the Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 1. 6.2-3. 184pp.
1993. The Play of the Double in Postmodern American Fiction. Carbondale: Southern Illinois
University Press. 234pp.
1990. With Stanley Fogel. Understanding John Barth. Columbus: University of South Carolina
Press. 241pp.

Articles And Chapters

2012: "Mapping the Trope: A Historical and Cultural Journey" and "Postmodern Masculinities in
Recent Buddy and Solo Road Films," Hit the Road, Jack: the History and Culture of the Road.
Eds. Gordon E. Slethaug and Stacilee Ford. 120pp.
2010. "Cross-Cultural Team-Teaching in China: A Retrospective View." In Understanding China's
Education Reform: Creating Cross Cultural Knowledge, Pedagogies and Dialogue. Ed. Janette
Ryan. London: Routeldge. 22pp.
2010. "Something Happened While Nobody was Looking: The Growth of International Education
and the Chinese Learner." In International Education and the Chinese Learner. Eds. Janette Ryan
and Gordon Slethaug. Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong Press. 15-36.
2009. "Spike Lee, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X: The Politics of Domination and Difference." In I
sing the Body Politic: History as Prophecy in Contemporary American Literature. Ed. Peter
Swirski. Montreal: McGill-Queens U Press. 113-148.
2008. "Class, Ethnicity, Race, and Economic Opportunity: the Idea of Order in Scorsese's Gangs
of New York and Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing." Journal of American Studies. (Korea) 40:1:
149-183.

Fellowships And Awards

• 2004-08 Lingnan Foundation grant

• 2003-04 Senior Fulbright Professor

• 2002 University of Hong Kong, Outstanding Teacher award

Current Research

I am keenly interested in globalization, semiotics and advertising, contemporary American film
and literature, international teaching and learning, and cross-cultural learning and have written
widely in these areas. I have a lifetime achievement of 10 books and editions; some 65 articles
and chapters in books, and hundreds of conference papers and invited presentations.

Materials and Resources

Textbooks

Required

1. Timothy Borchers, Heather Hundley. Rhetorical Theory: An Introduction. Second Edition, Waveland Press Inc, March 2018.
2. Karen A. Foss, Sonja K. Foss, Robert Trapp. Readings in Contemporary Rhetoric. Waveland Press Inc, August 2001.

Recommended Resources

1. English Literature and English Rhetoric, and Professional Writing
2. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
3. eReference Items for English

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Resources

• Library services for co-op students on work term and extended learning students

Grade Breakdown

Activities and Assignments	Weight(%)
Introduce Yourself	Ungraded
Discussions	15% (5x3%)
Reflections	15% (5x3%)
Group Project	20%
Research Essay	25%
Final Examination	25%
Total	Weight 100%

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