Writing & Rhetoric 2: Rhetoric of Public Monuments and Memorials

4 credits · Undergraduate

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This course asks how do public monuments speak or stand for a version of the past? Who speaks in public monuments, and how do monuments help states discursively maintain power? Whose bodies, voices, and values are unspoken in public monuments? For video and course description visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2vka. For PWR 2 catalog see https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr-2. Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.