ENC 3021.002 Summer 2023 Kronforst

ENC 3021 is one of three core courses for the Editing, Writing, and Media (EWM) major, and as such, the course works to provide a foundation for the major. Studying the history of rhetoric provides students with foundational rhetorical principles and building blocks, crucial for writers, editors, and evolving scholars.

Although we will start in ancient Greece and with Western rhetoric, we will trace many different rhetorics across the world throughout distinct eras to emphasize the differences in rhetorical knowledge and meaning making processes. During this process, we will consider knowledges, histories, and identities as subjective and ever-changing. Further, we will frequently (re)define rhetoric and its intersection with concepts like epistemology, truth, belief, identity, social interaction, and social justice.