WRTG 4050 - Writing & Cultural Rhetorics

This course explores how cultures and people outside the "mainstream" of Greco-Roman-western rhetoric use language and other symbol systems for constitutive and suasive purposes. Specifically, it examines how diverse groups in the US develop rhetoric to identify themselves as members of groups and the enact political and social change. Students strongly advised to take WRTG 2010 or equivalent prior to this course.