Study and practice methods of rhetorical analysis within the contexts of disputed issues of academic, political, or cultural significance.

Examine the gospels as rhetorical texts, applying historical method and literary analysis to gain an understanding of how the image of Jesus Christ has been shaped from early Christianity to the present day.

Explore the ethical, political, philosophical, scientific, and artistic reasons humans have created representations of animals and the potential repercussions of these representations.

Explore the different structures and rhetorical poses authors have taken across five hundred years of the essay form's contemporary existence.