ENG 5933 Summer 2019 Fleckenstein

ENG 5933 introduces students to the range and power of rhetorical praxis: theory as it intersects with practice. The course includes an overview of various rhetorical theories and provides opportunities for an application of those theories. This configuration of ENG 5933 focuses specifically on the relationship between rhetoric and (non)violence, exploring the ways in which rhetoric enacts, legitimates, and promotes (non)violence. Please note the use of the term (non)violence, for, if rhetoric performs, justifies, or initiates violence, it is also (potentially) a performer, justifier, or initiator of nonviolence. We investigate the possibilities of both throughout our time together this semester.