ENGL 101B F22 Van de Kemp | English Language and Literature

ENGL 101B F22 - Van de Kemp

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Instructor: Dr. Jessica Van de Kemp

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Course Description

The systematic study of effective communication—the art of rhetoric—dates back to at least the epics of Homer and flourishes today in countless academic disciplines and fields of business. In fact, the historical “empire” of rhetoric is so vast and enduring that it “digests regimes, religions, and civilizations” (Barthes). This class seeks to introduce students to the essential concepts, frameworks, and controversies in the history and theory of rhetoric by analyzing key selections from foundational texts, both ancient and contemporary. In addition to demonstrating the relevance of rhetorical theory and criticism to a variety of social, intellectual, and cultural fields (e.g. law, politics, philosophy, literature, advertising, etc), the class also explores emerging forms of rhetorical practice made possible by new media technologies, such as propaganda, computational gaming, and information warfare. Students will leave the class with a firm grasp of basic concepts of rhetorical theory, a sense of the history of rhetoric, and a deeper appreciation for rhetoric as an inventive, critical, multimodal, and multidisciplinary enterprise—what Quintilian calls an “encompassing art” (ars circumcurrens).

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, you should be able to:

Define basic rhetorical concepts Describe the historical scope of rhetoric Read texts critically
Analyze artifacts rhetorically
Appreciate rhetoric as an inventive, critical, multimodal and interdisciplinary enterprise

About the Course Instructor and the Course Author

Jessica Van de Kemp - Course Instructor

To learn more about Dr. Van de Kemp, click here to visit her profile on the English Department website.

Educational Background

PhD, University of Waterloo

MA, University of Waterloo

B.Ed, Western University

BA, University of Waterloo

Current Research

Research areas include adaptation and intertextuality, creative writing, and gender in media, among other interests. Dr. MacDonald supervised my dissertation, on adaptation theory and portrayals of gender and violence in drama TV series, in which I called for better representation of women on screen.

Philosophy of Teaching

My philosophy of teaching is student-centered and takes a whole-person approach, which means I care about helping you grow as a student and also as a person (think of me as a 'coach' or a 'mentor'), and I often engage students through the arts.

Hobby

I enjoy creative writing, especially plays and poems.

Michael MacDonald - Course Author

Faculty Profile

To learn more about Dr. MacDonald, click here to visit his profile on the English Department website.

Educational Background

PhD, University of California at Berkeley

MA, University of California at Berkeley

MA, University of British Columbia

BA, University of British Columbia

Current Research

Research interests include the history and theory of rhetoric, rhetoric and philosophy, and media studies. I recently completed a large editorial project, The Oxford Handbook of Rhetorical Studies (1200 pages), which includes 60 chapters that trace the evolution of rhetoric across disciplines from Greek antiquity to the present day.

Philosophy of Teaching

My philosophy of teaching emphasizes the close reading of primary texts and takes an interdisciplinary approach to rhetoric that encourages students to draw their own connections between rhetoric and other fields in the sciences and humanities.

Hobbies/Interests/Sports

When not involved in research, I enjoy exercising, cooking, playing the drums, and composing music.

Family/Children/Travel

I am married, and often travel to my wife's home city of Chicago, where I also taught for a number of years (at the University of Illinois at Chicago). I enjoy traveling to Europe for conferences and lectures, and I taught for a semester at the American University of Paris

Grade Breakdown

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Activities and Assignments	Weight(%)
Introduce Yourself	ungraded
Weekly Reading Responses	30%
Essay	30%
Final Examination	40%

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Week	Readings and Other Assigned Material	Activities and Assessments	Due Date	Weight
Week 1: Introduction (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537152)		Introduce Yourself (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-412560)	Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Ungraded
Week 2: Classical Rhetoric (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537153)	Gorgias, "The Encomium of Helen (../../media/documents/gorgias-encomium-of-helen.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present 2nd Edition. Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Bedford Books, 2001. 44-46. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Gorgias, "The Encomium of Helen"	Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
	Aristotle, "Rhetoric (../../media/documents/aristotle-rhetoric.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present 2nd Edition. Ed. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Bedford Books, 2001. 179-187. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Aristotle, "Rhetoric"	Thursday, September 15, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 3: Rhetoric and Drama (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537154)	Shakespeare, "Othello (../../media/documents/shakespeare-othello.pdf_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" Open Source Shakespeare. (PDF) [Line numbers not included]	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): William Shakespeare, "Othello"	Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 4: The Rhetorical Field (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537155)	Kennedy, George. "A Hoot in the Dark: The Evolution of General Rhetoric (../../media/documents/kennedy-hoot-in-the-dark.pdf? _&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries. Ed. William Covino and David Jolliffe. Longman, 1994. 105-121. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): George Kennedy, "A Hoot in the Dark: The Evolution of General Rhetoric"	Tuesday, September 27, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
	Fish, Stanley. "Rhetoric (../../media/documents/fish-rhetoric.pdf_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from Rhetoric: Concepts, Definitions, Boundaries, Ed. William Covino and David Jolliffe. Longman, 1995. 122-140. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Stanley Fish, "Rhetoric"	Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 5: Rhetoric and Philosophy (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537156)	Nietzsche, Friedrich. "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense (../../media/documents/nietzsche-on-truth-and-lying.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from Friedrich Nietzsche on Rhetoric and Language. Public Domain, 1989.246-257. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Friedrich Nietzsche, "On Truth and Lying in an Extra-Moral Sense"	Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
	Burke, Kenneth. "Terministic Screens (../../media/documents/burke-language-as-symbolic-action.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from The Rhetorical Tradition Bedford Books, 2001. 1340-1347. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Kenneth Burke, "Terministic Screens"	Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Reading Week (Saturday, October 8, 2022 to Sunday, October 16, 2022)
Week 6: Rhetoric, Gender, and Feminism (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537157)	Cixous, Hélène. "The Laugh of the Medusa (https://www-jstor-org.proxy.lib.uwaterloo.ca/stable/3173239)" from Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1976, Vol. 1, No. 4, The University of Chicago Press, 875-893. (* Library Access)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Hélène Cixous, "The Laugh of the Medusa"	Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 7: Rhetoric and Propaganda (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537158)	Ellul, Jacques. "The Characteristics of Propaganda (../../media/documents/ellul-characteristics-of-propaganda.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes, Ed. Konrad Kellen and Jean Lerner. New York: Vintage Books, 1965. 3-43. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Jacques Ellul, "The Characteristics of Propaganda"	Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
	Hitler, Adolf. "Mein Kampf (../../media/documents/hitler-mein-kampf.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" Internet Archive. 166-186, 702-716, 846-857. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf"	Saturday, October 29, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 8: Rhetoric and Information Warfare (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537159)	Szafranski, Richard. "Neocortical Warfare? The Acme of Skill (../../media/documents/szafranski-neocortical-warfare.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from In Athena's Camp: Preparing for Conflict in the Information Age. John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt. RAND Corporation, 1997. 395-416.(PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Richard Szafranski: "Neocortical Warfare? The Acme of Skill"	Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 9: Rhetoric and Advertising (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537160)	McQuarrie, Edward F. "Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language (../../media/documents/mcquarrie-figures-in-advertising.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1996. 424-438. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Edward McQuarrie, "Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising"	Tuesday, November 8, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
	Scott, Linda M. "Images in Advertising (../../media/documents/scott-images-in-advertising.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1996. 252-273. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Linda Scott, "Images in Advertising"	Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 10: Rhetoric, Semiotics, and Popular Culture (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537161)	Barthes, Roland. "Excerpts (../../media/documents/barthes-excerpts-from-mythologies.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from Mythologies: The Complete Edition, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. 3-14, 79-82, 83-85, 100-102, 103-105. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Roland Barthes, "Excerpts" from Mythologies: The Complete Edition	Thursday, November 17, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 11: Rhetoric and New Media (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537162)	Bogost, Ian. "The Rhetoric of Video Games (../../media/documents/bogost-rhetoric-video-games.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=sbd7ea3zIdhLKN3fmJyDWbN6S&ou=821497)" from The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning MIT Press, 2008. 117–140. (PDF)	Weekly Reading Responses (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546376): Ian Bogost, "The Rhetoric of Video Games"	Thursday, November 24, 2022 at 11:55 PM	Contributes to 30% of your final grade
Week 12: Review (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-537163)	No readings this week	Essay (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-546378)	Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 11:55 PM	40%
Final Examination (/d2l/common/dialogs/quickLink/quickLink.d2l?ou=821497&type=content&rcode=uWaterloo-2375689)			Opens: Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 12:05 AM	30%
Generated by Centre for Extended Learning Created: 28/0			Closes: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 at 11:55 PM 9/2022