CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2025 Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically examine the speech, writings, imagery, and symbolic actions that have influenced the origins and outcomes of democratic revolutions across the globe Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify both recurring and distinctive elements of the speech of leaders and groups studied (including types of argument, rhetorical devices, branding, imagery, and other figurative speech) Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop and demonstrate a critical, comparative perspective that will enable students to step back from, and make sense of, the different leaders, groups and forms of speech studied Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain how styles and elements of speech used by leaders and groups operate differently depending on historical and political context and on their specific configurations with other elements Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically examine the speech, writings, imagery, and symbolic actions that have influenced the origins and outcomes of democratic revolutions across the globe Audience: Undergraduate 2. Identify both recurring and distinctive elements of the speech of leaders and groups studied (including types of argument, rhetorical devices, branding, imagery, and other figurative speech) Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop and demonstrate a critical, comparative perspective that will enable students to step back from, and make sense of, the different leaders, groups and forms of speech studied Audience: Undergraduate 4. Explain how styles and elements of speech used by leaders and groups operate differently depending on historical and political context and on their specific configurations with other elements Audience: Undergraduate