| WEEK | DATES | Topic | Reading Due | |
| Unit One: What is Rhetoric? | ||||
| 1 | T | 27-Aug | Defining Rhetoric | |
| Th | 29-Aug | Borchers and Hundley Chapter One | ||
| 2 | T | 3-Sep | Defining Rhetoric | Sedgwick “Axiomatic” pgs. 1-8 |
| Th | 5-Sep | The Rhetorical Situation | Butler “Explanation and Exoneration” pgs 177-188 | |
| Unit Two: The “Rhetorical Tradition” and Beyond | ||||
| 3 | T | 10-Sep | Classical Rhetoric | Borchers and Hundley Chapter Two; exertps from Aristotle’s Rhetoric |
| Th | 12-Sep | Rhetorical Ontology | Barnett and Boyles “Rhetorical Ontology, or How to Do Things with Things” pgs 1-16 | |
| 4 | T | 17-Sep | Medieval Rhetoric | Borchers and Hundley Chapter Three; |
| Th | 19-Sep | Style and Delivery | Porter “Recovering Deilvery for Digital Rhetoric” | |
| 5 | T | 24-Sep | Epistemology and Reason | Borchers and Hundley Chapters Four and Six |
| Th | 26-Sep | Rhetorical Ecologies | Edbauer “Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies” | |
| 6 | T | 1-Oct | Dramatism | Borchers and Hundley Chapter Seven: Burke “Terministic Screens” |
| Th | 3-Oct | Rhetorical Vision | Bates “Terministic Screens of Corruption” | |
| 7 | T | 8-Oct | Feminist and Queer Rhetorics | Borchers and Hundley Chapter Eight; |
| Th | 10-Oct | Assemblage Rhetorics | Palmeri and Rylander “Intersecting Realities: Queer Assemblage as Rhetorical Methodology” | |
| Su | Due: Rhetorical Analysis | |||
| 8 | T | 15-Oct | Ideology | Borchers and Hundley Chapter Ten; |
| F | 18-Oct | Event: John Carlos | Attend John Carlos Event, Fri Oct. 18 7-9p | |
| Unit Three: Re/Framing Rhetoric | ||||
| 9 | T | 22-Oct | Alternative Rhetorical Theories | Borchers and Hundley Chapter Nine |
| Th | 24-Oct | Anzaldua “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” | ||
| 10 | T | 29-Oct | Cultural Rhetoric | Borchers and Hundley Chapter Eleven |
| Th | 31-Oct | Lee “Ideographic Criticism” | ||
| 11 | T | 5-Nov | Assemblage Rhetorics | Nicotra “Assemblage Rhetorics: Creating New Frameworks for Rhetorical Action” |
| Th | 7-Nov | Hallenbeck “Objects, Material Commonplaces, and the Invention of the ‘New Woman'” | ||
| Su | 10-Nov | Due: Article Review | ||
| 12 | T | 12-Nov | Border Rhetorics | |
| F | 15-Nov | La Frontera Conference | Attend one panel or talk | |
| 13 | T | 19-Nov | Postmodern Rhetorics | Borchers and Hundely Chapter Twelve |
| Th | 21-Nov | |||
| 14 | T | 26-Nov | Thanksgiving | |
| Th | 28-Nov | Break | ||
| 15 | T | 3-Dec | Workshop | |
| Th | 5-Dec | Workshop | ||
| Su | 8-Dec | due: Ideographic Project | ||
| 16 | T | 10-Dec | Final Exam 8:30-10:30a | due: Final Reflection |
