Course Description | Texts | Assignments and Grades | Schedule
| Date | In-Class | For Next Time |
| 1. T
Jan 15 |
Introductions to course, each other, and rhetorical criticism. Sign up for this class site (“create a new account”–use your real name) and sign into our Canvas class site (again, real names so I’ll be able to grade your work). | Introduce yourself on the Canvas discussion board. Read Foss Ch 1-2 |
| 2. TH
Jan 17 |
Traditional rhetorical analysis + etherpad test. | Read Foss Ch 3 |
| 3. T
Jan 22 |
Neo-Aristotelian Criticism. In-class assignment: Gaga! | Review “Applying the Canons,” p 25-28 |
| 4. TH
Jan 24 |
First wrap up from last class: audience. Neo-Aristotelian Criticism, cont + In-class assignment: Gaga again! Go over working notes assignment. (one example) | Working Notes Due by Sunday night at 10pm. Read Foss Ch 4 (p.63-69) |
| 5. T
Jan 29 |
Cluster Criticism Introduction, in-class practice1 | Read Foss p.86-96 |
| 6. TH
Jan 31 |
In-class practice + + Discuss Working Notes assignment
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Begin your working notes for cluster crit–get a jump b/c they’re due Wed morning. |
| 7. T
Feb 5 |
Burke quote + Practice with non-agon cluster criticism. Review of cluster criticism | Working Notes Due by Wed morning at 5am. Read Foss Ch 9 (p. 307-317) |
| 8. TH
Feb 7 |
Narrative Criticism + Notes on narrative types + Sample narrative analysis of video+ in-class practice | Foss p. 336-346. Go through these notes on a broadened sense of narrative criticism. |
| 9. T
Feb 12 |
Working Notes reminder: do not list Foss’s four steps.
“Cluster criticism uses a four-step process for analysis: (1) selecting an artifact; (2) analyzing the artifact; (3) formulating a research question; and (4) writing the essay” (Foss 66). These are the same for every kind of critical method. Focus on the elements that differ: how to carry out the analysis and what the critic is interested in discovering through this analysis. Narrative Criticism (broadened) + In-class practice |
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| 10. TH
Feb 14 |
Narrative Criticism In-class practice continued + questions about comparison paper. | Working Notes Due by Monday morning at 5am. Submit a second copy of your working notes to the assignment Practice Peer Review on Canvas by classtime on Tuesday. |
| 11. T
Feb 19 |
Review + discussion of peer review expectations. Quick practice Peer Review. | Prepare first comparison paper and submit it toCOMPARISON PAPER 1 REVIEW on Canvas for peer review by TH morning at 7am. |
| 12. TH
Feb 21 |
Go over citing class notes. Peer Review comparison papers | Read Foss 209-220. Revise comparison paper, submit the final version to COMPARISON PAPER 1 on Canvas by classtime on Tues. |
| 13. T
Feb 26 |
Comparison paper 1 due. Diff btw tenets and stakes. Disucss issues with papers and peer reviews–go over differences between methods/goals and tenets again. Foucault passage + Introduction to Ideological critique + in-class practice | Read Hart and Daughton “Marxist Criticism” (below)–just read the “Marxist” section. Deconstruction comes later. |
| 14. TH
Feb 28 |
Marxist Criticism. Some capitalist ideologies+ Goals of Marxist Crit + in-class practice | |
| 15. T
Mar 5 |
Marxist Criticism. In-class assignment. | Read Althusser’s “Ideology and the Ideological State Apparatus” |
| 16. TH
Mar 7 |
Althusser and post-Marxist Criticism +Representation of America’s wealth distribution + In-class assignment | |
| 17. T
Mar 12 |
Spring Break | |
| 18. TH
Mar 14 |
Spring Break | Working Notes Due by Monday morning at 5am. Read Foss 246-250 + Hart and Daughton “Feminist Criticism” (below) |
| 19. T
Mar 19 |
Feminist Criticism + in-class practice. | If you’re revising comparison paper 1, upload it by classtime TH to Comparative Paper1-R&R |
| 20. TH
Mar 21 |
Comparative paper 1 revisions due. FEM CRIT In-class practice. | Working Notes Due by Monday morning at 5am+ read Hart and Daughton’s “Deconstructive Criticism” (below) |
| 21. T
Mar 26 |
Deconstructive Criticism. Laws of Logic + in-class assignment. Class notes. | |
| 22. TH
Mar 28 |
Deconstructive Criticism. In-class assignment | Read Cixous “Laugh of the Medusa” (below) and Fausto-Sterling “Five Sexes” |
| 23. T
Apr 2 |
Deconstructive Feminist Crit; in-class assignment | |
| 24. TH
Apr 4 |
Example of deconstruction in argument + Questions + In class time to find an artifact and begin working notes. | Working Notes Due by Monday morning at 5am. |
| 25. T
Apr 9 |
Questions, Review + warm up for comparison two paper. Sample Comparison Paper. | |
| 26. TH
Apr 11 |
Speak in Wisconsin | Prepare comparison paper 2 and submit it to COMPARISON PAPER 2 REVIEW for peer review on Canvas by Tuesday morning at 7am |
| 27. T
Apr 16 |
Peer review comparison paper 2. | Revise comparison paper 2, submit the final version to COMPARISON PAPER 2 onCanvas by classtime on TH. |
| 28. TH
Apr 18 |
Comparision paper 2 due. Look over application assignment. Propose final artifact and method on Canvas discussion site. Sign up for conference with me if you haven’t already. | Work on Final paper |
| 29. T
Apr 23 |
Conferences with me | |
| 30. TH
Apr 25 |
Conferences with me | Prepare final paper for peer review and submit to APPLICATION PAPER REVIEW on Canvas. |
| 31. T
Apr 30 |
Peer review Final paper | Revise final paper and submit to APPLICATION PAPER onCanvas by classtime on TH. If you plan to revise comparison paper 2, submit that, as well, to Comparative Paper 2 (same place as before) by class time TH |
| 32. TH
May 2 |
Final paper due. Comparison paper 2 revisions due. Debriefing. Course evaluations. |
Course Description | Texts | Assignments and Grades | Schedule