WRTG 3890 - Under-Represented Rhetorics

The course examines the discourses of power systems within the United States, considering the ways writing serves as a medium of control over national ideas and group identities. Simultaneously, the course explores rhetoric representative of several national histories, heritages, and social movements. The course focuses on theories or rhetoric and discourse, writing to establish the "other," writing and the construction of race, rhetorical concepts of gender and class, and tools for analyzing power discourses. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.