Rhetoric of the Labor Movement

3.0 credits · Undergraduate

This course equips students to use different modes of rhetorical analysis to examine historical and contemporary artifacts in critical ways. Grading is based on class participation, tests and a final paper. The final paper requires students to identify primary source materials with a connection to either past or present labor movements and apply one or more of these modes of rhetorical criticism as the basis of an unique investigation into a particular labor movement's significant symbolic acts. Students will be expected to hone their own teaching and public speaking skills by giving at least one major in class presentation.