Rhetorics of Identity

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) This course undertakes an intensive study into the symbolic mediation of identity. It examines how symbolic systems reflect, produce, and challenge such concepts as gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class, ability, age, nationality, and humanness. Drawing connections between discourses and privilege, the course also explores power and identity politics, examining the reciprocal relationship between symbols and ideology. Its topics may include the performance and circulation of digitally mediated identities, constitutive rhetoric, rhetoric of the body, civic identity, and the post-human. Restrictions: Students may not hold credit for this course and the former RHET-3420. Requisite Courses: Completion of 42 credit hours [prerequisite(s)].