RHETORIC OF CAMPAIGNS AND REVOLUTIONS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Civics & Perspectives Ethnic St - Ethnic Studies Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the abolition movement, the US women’s suffrage movement, the twentieth century movement for reproductive justice, and contemporary activism Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Utilize rhetorical methodologies to approach movement texts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Read across primary texts, scholarly texts that provide contextualized analysis of primary sources, and book-length texts detailing movement history and actor biography Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Recognize and question cultural assumptions, rules, biases, and knowledge claims as they relate to race and ethnicity Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Examine questions and make decisions with consideration for the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply concepts from the course to contemporary examples of social movement rhetoric at the graduate level Audience: Graduate 7. Communicate about the rhetoric of campaigns and revolutions in graduate level communication genres Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the abolition movement, the US women’s suffrage movement, the twentieth century movement for reproductive justice, and contemporary activism Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Utilize rhetorical methodologies to approach movement texts Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Read across primary texts, scholarly texts that provide contextualized analysis of primary sources, and book-length texts detailing movement history and actor biography Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Recognize and question cultural assumptions, rules, biases, and knowledge claims as they relate to race and ethnicity Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Examine questions and make decisions with consideration for the cultural perspectives and worldviews of others Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Apply concepts from the course to contemporary examples of social movement rhetoric at the graduate level Audience: Graduate 7. Communicate about the rhetoric of campaigns and revolutions in graduate level communication genres Audience: Graduate