Courses

This course is a study of the Reformation and Post-Reformation period with special emphasis on the lives and teachings of Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, and others and the historical and social impact of their work. Fall alternate years.

Study of the dynamic forces loosed in the Reformation, with cultural, intellectual, theological, and political emphases.

A survey of local, state, national, and international regulatory agencies to include their legislated regulations are covered.

A study of the economic and intellectual expansions of Europe and the religious transformation of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.

Study of field of rhetoric of health and medicine with specific attention to the study of gender, including issues in reproduction, expertise and illness; range of methods and methodological approaches within the field.

Study of field of rhetoric of health and medicine with specific attention to the study of gender, including issues in reproduction, expertise and illness; range of methods and methodological approaches within the field.

Study of field of rhetoric of health and medicine with specific attention to the study of gender, including issues in reproduction, expertise and illness; range of methods and methodological approaches within the field.

The course introduces students to the skills required for message analysis. The course specifically focuses on the hip-hip community with emphasis as to how that community was formed and how it continues to grow. Students will also be introduced to varying rhetorical concepts such as ethos, pathos, logos, emergent grammar, etc. Students will understand how to dissect arguments made through artistic mediums and construct their own arguments through work with argument theory.

Historical markers, monuments, memorials, and museums all contain public memory. The focus of this class is to rhetorically examine these curated sites for how they interpret the past for current audiences with future implications.

Fosters an appreciation for and better understanding of English prose style; the history of English prose; representative prose models for analysis and imitation; the impact of computer analysis.