ENC 3021 Fall 2024 - Reilly

ENC3021 is one of three core courses for the Editing, Writing, and Media (EWM) track and 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. This course will help us achieve this time travel by introducing key concepts in the study of rhetoric; frameworks useful for the analysis of texts, events, communication; and the principles of rhetoric in the contexts of many media and cultures. As we trace Western rhetorical theories and practices as they have evolved and changed throughout their 2500-year history, you’ll soon find that the present often appears in the past, and the past stays with us as we move toward the present. Ultimately, this course will encourage us to develop our understanding of how rhetoric underpins our understanding of identity, knowledge, power, and language.