Topic 1: Sophistry and the Invention of Rhetoric. Examines the role of sophists and sophistry in the development and practice of rhetoric as an art, from antiquity to modern times. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 2: Kairos and the Rhetorical Situation. Introduction to kairos, a key concept in rhetorical theory from ancient to modern times, that focuses attention on making a text appropriate for its historical situation. Explores why some writing succeeds at attracting attention and inspiring action, while some writing fails. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 3: Deliberating War. Studies the recurrent means of making arguments for and against war, and the role of rhetoric in public deliberation. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Pro- and Anti-War Rhetoric) and 330D (Topic 3) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 4: Rhetoric and Racism. Explores theories of rhetoric by examining arguments about group identity, from Athenian discussions of "barbarism" in the fourth century BC to nineteenth-century arguments about citizenship. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 5: History of Public Argument. A survey of the practice and theory of argumentation, with particular attention to its civic and political uses and implications. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 6: Classical to Modern Rhetoric. Surveys the works of major rhetorical theorists and practitioners in the Western tradition from the ancient Greeks to the present. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 7: Rhetoric Invented, Revised, Retold. Survey of figures, movements, and debates in the history of rhetoric and exploration of the rise of revisionist historiography and comparative rhetoric in the twenty-first century. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Rhetoric Invented/Revised/Retold) and 330D (Topic 7) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 8: Philosophy Versus Rhetoric. Study of the co-emergence and subsequent split between rhetoric and philosophy in the classical period and their potential reunification in a contemporary context. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Philosophy vs Rhetoric) and 330D (Topic 8) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 9: Rhetoric in the English Renaissance. Examination of how the art of rhetoric, developed in ancient times by the Greeks and Romans, was understood and debated during the European Renaissance, particularly in England. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Rhetoric in the English Renaissance) and 330D (Topic 9) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 10: Arguing with Liberals. A survey of liberal political theory from the late seventeenth through the twentieth centuries with special attention to theories and practices of public argumentation. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Arguing with Liberals) and 330D (Topic 10) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 11: Cicero, Rhetoric, and Ancient Rome. An exploration of Marcus Tullius Cicero's writings on rhetoric, his major political speeches, and his philosophical dialogues in the context of the late Roman republic and the Roman Revolution (ca. 133-40 BCE). Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Cicero, Rhet & Ancient Rome) and 330D (Topic 11) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 12: Women's Rhetorical Traditions. Examine how popular rhetorical theories and pedagogies were adapted to fit specific social, cultural, and political contexts and thus shaped the communication practices of girls and women in 19th and early 20th century America. Consider why females were excluded from the rhetorical tradition and the challenges scholars face in writing historical accounts. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Women's Rhet Traditions) and 330D (Topic 12) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 13: Augustine and Christian Rhetoric. Study Augustine's writings on language, rhetoric, and epistemology with attention paid to contemporary Roman and Greek philosophical and rhetorical movements, such as skepticism, Platonic idealism, the second sophistic, and the Christian homiletic tradition. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Augustine and Christian Rhe) and 330D (Topic 13) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 14: Rhetoric of Latinx Social Movement. Examine Latinx social movements and their rhetorical features in the Americas from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Rhe of Latinx Social Mvmt) and 330D (Topic 14) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 15: Feminist Rhetoric. Explore the intersection between feminism and rhetoric with emphasis on historical figures. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Feminist Rhetoric) and 330D (Topic 15) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 16: Transgender Rhetorics. Examine rhetorics that (re)shape normative and transgressive conceptions of gender, emphasizing their effects on the lives of transgender people Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Transgender Rhetorics) and 330D (Topic 16) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 17: Arguing with Conservatives. Explore American conservative political tradition with special attention to the 1964 Barry Goldwater presidential campaign. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Arguing with Conservatives) and 330D (Topic 17) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010

Topic 18: Medical Rhetorics, Race, and Gender. Examine how health and illness are defined through rhetorics about and within medicine. Focus on race and gender, consider how communication and language shape understandings of health, access to health care, and experiences of illness and disability. Only one of the following may be counted: Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: Medical Rhet/Race/Gender), 330D (Topic 18), Women's and Gender Studies 335 (Topic 29). Same as: WGS 335.29 Core Curriculum: 010 Additional prerequisite: English 303C, Rhetoric and Writing 306, 306Q or Tutorial Course 303C.

Topic 19: 1960s Liberation Rhetoric. Explore the rhetoric of liberation in the United States in the 1960s, looking in detail at the words and actions of activists in the Civil Rights movement, the anti-war/anti-imperialist movement, Black Power, women's liberation, gay liberation, the Chicano movement/el movimiento, and other noteworthy phenomena of the era. Rhetoric and Writing 330D (Topic: 1960s Liberation Rhetorics) and 330D (Topic 19) may not both be counted. Core Curriculum: 010