Learning Outcomes

  • As a result of this course, students will:
    • Understand the rhetorical tradition of the good person writing and speaking well for the public good.
    • Apply this understanding of the rhetorical tradition to different contexts of public communication.
    • Develop written and oral communication skills that enable them to express and interpret ideas – both their own and those of others – in clear language.
    • Identify, reflect upon, integrate, and apply different arguments to form good, independent judgments in public debate.
    • Conceptualize an effective research strategy and then collect, interpret, evaluate and cite evidence in written and oral communication.
    • Distinguish between types of information resources and how these resources meet the needs of different levels of scholarship and different academic disciplines.
    • Engage issues surrounding digital literacies and divisions through participatory learning.
    • Critically understand social media as a rhetorical medium.

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