Course Schedule is subject to change (and probably will).
Spring 2012
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Date |
What We’ll Be Doing in Class (Roughly) |
Reading Due |
Writing Due |
| Week 1 |
Unit 5: Articulating Beliefs |
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| Tuesday 1/8 | Introduction to second half of RCL. Class warm-up activities. Introduction to “This I Believe” assignment. | ||
| Thursday 1/10 | Discussion of “stance.”Listen to and discuss “This I Believe” examples.Further Discuss CI blog topics and logistics and set up Civic Issues blog category in class.
Review classmates’ credos and CI blog ideas. |
Read NPR prompt for TIB; Listen to a selection (at least three) TIB broadcasts. Develop possible topics for “This I Believe” podcast and review Civic Issues (CI) blog topics (url here). | WIP (1): Publish a credo (250-word statement of belief) and thoughts on a civic issue (CI) choice.WIP (2): Possible TIB topics. |
| Week 2 | |||
| Tuesday 1/15 | Meet in Knowledge Commons for Garage Band training session. | Reading: TBA. | Start drafting “TIB” script. |
| Thursday 1/17 | Discuss Deliberation Unit in class.Blogging, Week 1. Workshop for “This I Believe” scripts. | Complete full draft of “This I Believe” script and post under WIP.Complete and post first Civic Issues blog entry.Passion: ideas | |
| Week 3 |
Unit 6: Deliberating |
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| Tuesday 1/22 | What is deliberation? Discuss Deliberation Unit/assignments in class.Discuss Gastil reading. | Reading, Gastil, PCD, Preface and Chapter 1 | |
| Thursday 1/24 | Blogging, Week 2 | WIP: Select a site for online deliberation component. Post a link and a brief justification for your choice. Round out the set of blogs (Civic Issues, Passion);Record “This I Believe” podcast by today, class time. | |
| Week 4 | |||
| Tuesday 1/29 | Discuss Reading. More on National Issues Forum approach to deliberation (the approach our Class Issue Forum will take). | Gastil, Chapter 2, “Conversation and Discussion.” | |
| Thursday 1/31 | Short discussion of reading. Blogging, Week 3. |
Gastil, chapter 3, “Mediated Deliberation and Public Opinion.” | WIP: Comment on your posting to the site you’ve selected. |
| Week 5 | |||
| Tuesday 2/5 | Continue discussion of Gastil, Chp. 3; Groups begin 5-10 minute presentations/discussion of chapter 4-9. |
Gastil chapter assigned to your group (4-9). | |
| Thursday 2/7 | Finish Gastil presentations/discussion of chapter 4-9.Blogging, Week 4. | ||
| Week 6 | |||
| Tuesday 2/12 | Wrap-up discussion of Gastil. Begin Moderator Training. | Gastil, Chapter 10. | |
| Thursday 2/14 | Complete Moderator Training; practice moderating.Blogging, Week 5. | Scaled-down blog.WIP: Trends you’re seeing in the commentary on the site you’ve selected. | |
| Week 7 | |||
| Tuesday 2/19 | Begin Class Issues Forum: personal stake; deliberate Approach 1. | ||
| Thursday 2/21 | Deliberate approach 2 and 3 (note: blogging is on a hiatus for this week. Work on online deliberations instead). | No blog. | |
| Week 8 | |||
| Tuesday 2/26 | Concluding reflections. Discuss progress of online deliberation assignment. | ||
| Thursday 2/28 | Discuss Class Issues Forum.Discuss assignments for next unit and parameters for topics/questions.Blogging, Week 6 (WKSHP: moderator philosophy) | WIP: Post draft of moderator philosophy.Passion: only a brief post.
*Note: Deliberation Evaluation and Moderating Philosophy statement are due to ANGEL Dropbox Friday, March 1 by 5 pm. |
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| Week 9 | |||
| 3/3 – 3/9 |
NO CLASS SPRING BREAK
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| Week 10 |
Unit 7: Persuading and Advocating |
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| Tuesday3/12 | What is persuasion? Discuss differences among deliberation, persuasion and advocacy. Possibility for deliberative persuasion? | Review CDA, p. 28-29; read ARCS, chapters 9 and 10, “Arrangement: Getting it Together” and “Style: Composition and Ornament.” | *Note: Online Deliberation materials due to ANGEL Dropbox Monday, March 11 by 5 pm. |
| Thursday 3/14 | Discuss week’s readings. Review sample persuasive essays.Blogging, Week 7 | Same readings. | WIP: Post a short topic proposal. |
| Week 11 | |||
| Tuesday 3/19 | Class will not meet: optional brief conferences re: draft. | Prepare full draft of persuasive essay. | |
| Thursday 3/21 | Blogging, Week 8 (WKSHP: persuasive essay) | WIP: Post full draft of persuasive essay. No passion post. | |
| Week 12 | |||
| Tuesday 3/26 | Discuss Reading. Discuss Advocacy Assignment. Discuss examples of advocacy projects. | CDA, “About Argument and Advocacy,” pages 283-305 | Persuasive essay final. |
| Thursday 3/28 | Discuss audience, modal choices.Blogging, Week 9. | WIP: Ideas for Advocacy Project. | |
| Week 13 | |||
| Tuesday 4/2 | Work on advocacy scripts. Small-group discussion of modal choices and audience for individual advocacy projects.Discuss further sample advocacy pieces. | ||
| Thursday 4/4 | Blogging, Week 10 | WIP: Draft of Advocacy Project | |
| Week 14 | |||
| Tuesday 4/9 | No formal class. Students work on developing advocacy projects. | ||
| Thursday 4/11 | Blogging Week 11 | e-portfolio reading TK | |
| Week 15 |
Unit 8: Presenting Yourself |
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| Tuesday 4/16 | Discuss reading & e-portfolio assignment. Review sample e-portfolio designs.Review platforms available for e-portfolio creation. Brainstorm purpose(s) and audience(s) for e-portfolios. | ||
| Thursday 4/18 | Continue discussion of e-portfolios.Blogging, Week 12 | Advocacy Projects due. | |
| Week 16 | |||
| Tuesday 4/23 | Additional tips, pointers, and possibilities for e-portfolio design. Work on e-portfolios in class. | Continue working on e-portfolio. | |
| Thursday 4/25 | Last day of class. Review one another’s e-portfolios in blog groups. | E-portfolio introduction letter and e-portfolio link due in ANGEL dropboxby Tuesday, April 30, at 4 PM. | |
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Fall 2012
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Date |
What We’ll Be Doing in Class |
Reading Due |
Writing Due |
| Week 1 |
Unit One: Rhetoric & Civic Life — Overview and Introduction |
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| Tuesday 8/28 | Introduction to class. Introduction to rhetoric. In-class writing. | ||
| Thursday 8/30 | Discuss reading. Considertopics for “Passion Blog.”Setting up RCL blogs. | Read Chapter 1, ARCS, p. 1-27.Read “About Blogging” on the course website. | Choose one of the Rhetorical Activities (choose either Activity 1, 2, 3, or 4) at the end of the reading (pg. 25) and bring a hard copy of a 300-word response. |
| Week 2 | |||
| Tuesday 9/4 | Discuss readings.Review blog requirements. Discuss choices forpassion blog. Discuss commenting on group members’ blogs. | Read Schudson, “How People Learn to Be Civic” and Turkle “The Flight from Conversation.” (Both of these readings are available on the course website.)View film during plenary event on Tuesday evening (see below**). | Should continue to build your three blogs. |
| Thursday 9/6 | Discuss film in terms of rhetoric and civic life.Discuss assignment #1.Finalize blogs in class … and start blogging. | (Due for discussion on Tuesday, Sept. 11, but there’s a bit of reading, so you’ll want to get started): Read CDA, “Introduction” and “A Rhetorical Process for Designing Compositions,” p. 1-30, and “Interviewing,” p. 234-235. Read assignment one for this course (on course website).) | Blog a response to the film using some of the concepts covered in our reading so far (e.g., rhetoric, civic life, ideology, networks of interpretation, ideology, commonplaces, and language as power) |
| Week 3 | |||
| Tuesday 9/11 | DiscussReading. Discuss assignment #1 further. Sign up for speeches. Write in class. | Listed above on Sept 6. | |
| Thursday 9/13 | Discuss strategies for oral communication. Discuss speeches; discuss CDA p. 232 (testing and evaluating oral communication). Performance drills in class.Blogging Day, Week 1 | Read CDA, “About Oral Modes of Communication,” p. 186-212. | First full set of blogs are due before class: Passion, RCL, and Work-in-Progress. RCL blog ought to include a response to Do the Right Thing. Include your speech’s design plan on Work-in-Progress blog. |
| Week 4 | |||
| Tuesday 9/18 | Speech One (8 students) | Finalize and practice Speech One. | |
| Thursday 9/20 | Speech One (8 students)Blogging, week 2. | RCL blog: Advertising on campus. Work-in-Progress blog: reflection on speeches (reflect on yours if you have done it already; if you haven’t gone yet, discuss strategies you have noticed your classmates using that you might want to emulate). | |
| Week 5 | |||
| Tuesday 9/25 | Speech One (8 students) | ||
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Unit Two: Analyzing Rhetoric |
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| Thursday 9/27 | Introduce unit & assignment. Discuss readings and process of choosing artifacts for analysis.Blogging, Week 3. | Read Unit Two assignment (and print it if you’d like). Consider text(s) to analyze for Unit Two. Read CDA, “Doing Rhetorical Analysis of Others’ Texts,” p. 313-332; browse through chapters 10-14 to consider the variety of artifacts that might be analyzed rhetorically. | |
| Week 6 |
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| Tuesday 10/2 | Discuss Logos and Ethos. Discuss readings. Focus on principles in written communication chapter as guides to completing and revising papers for draft workshop.(Ahead) Introduction to Unit Three with its two assignments. | Read ARCS, Chapters 5-6,“Logical Proof: Reasoning in Rhetoric,” p. 118-142 and “EthicalProof: Arguments from Character,” p. 146-164.Read CDA “About Written Modes of Communication,” p. 133-184.If you’d like, print the two Unit 3 Assignments. | |
| Thursday 10/4 | Discuss Readings. Discuss WKSHP.Blogging, Week 4. Draft Workshop. |
Read ARCS, Chapter 7, “Pathetic Proof: Passionate Appeals,” p. 170-189; Read Hazlitt, “On the Difference Between Speaking and Writing” (available online at course website); | Post draft of Rhetorical Analysis Essay to Blog & bring paper copy to class.Blog a response for RCL blog that considers an example of pathos that you have encountered recently (e.g., on Facebook, in an advertisement, in a discussion with friends). |
| Week 7 |
Unit Three: Researching Rhetorical Issues Across Time |
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| Tuesday 10/9 | Library Instruction Class: Meet in 140 Pattee. | ||
| Thursday 10/11 | Review library resources & research strategies.Discuss research reading; consider topics for paradigm shift papersBlogging, Week 5 | Read CDA, “Research to Support Composing,” p. 90-132. | Final Rhetorical Analysis Essay due. |
| Week 8 | |||
| Tuesday 10/16 | DiscussReading. Discuss kairos maps as source of invention forParadigm shift paper.View one TED talk. | Read ARCS, chapter 2, “Kairos and the Rhetorical Situation,” p. 37-55. | Based on the research you have conducted, create a visual map of the paradigm shift you have chosen and post it on your work-in-progress blog. You might use rhetorical exercise #3, ARCS p. 52 as a guide. |
| Thursday 10/18 | NO CLASS For Work-in-Progress blog, discuss your Research plan / progress for the Paradigm Shift paper and any preliminary findings so far. Add prelim. research to visual map. | ||
| Week 9 | |||
| Tuesday 10/23 | TED workshop day.Break into TED groups.Discuss stasis as a way to examine arguments shifting across time. | Read ARCS Chapter 3, “Achieving Stasis by Asking the Right Questions,” p. 56-87. | Continue to work on visual map of paradigm shift paper. |
| Thursday 10/25 | Discuss reading with special focus on how a new topical strategy can change the conversation about a particular issue.TED groups?Blogging, Week 7. Draft workshop for Paradigm Shift papers | Read ARCS, Chapter 4, “The Common Topics and the Commonplaces: Finding the Available Means,” p. 88-117. | Post draft of Paradigm Shift paper & bring paper copy to class. |
| Week 10 | |||
| Tuesday10/30 | Discuss Memory and Delivery. In class: view examples of TED talks; focus on gestures and other points of delivery. Delivery exercises in class. Discuss the genre of a TED talk with a focus on memory strategies and bodily comportment. | Read ARCS, Chapter 12, “Delivery and Memory: Attending to Eyes and Ears,” p. 325-348.Read “What is a TED Talk,” link on course website.(Might read ahead. See assignment below.) | Final Paradigm Shift Paper due. |
| Thursday 11/1 | Discuss the TED genre cont’d; rhetorical principles and evident strategies of oral communication. Watch more examples in class.Brief introduction to Public Controversy assignment.View sample multimediaassignments.Blogging, Week 8 | TED resources (available on course website). Watch Joshua Foer’s TED talk (link on course website) and at least one other TED talk (more if you are unfamiliar with the genre).Review CDA chapter “about oral modes of communication”; this time read the extended example (p. 217-231). Read description of Public Controversy assignment.Print Public Controversy Assignment, if you’d like. | RCL blog: Blog a response about the TED genre. |
| Week 11 | Note: The following RCL/TED talk schedule is such that roughly 6 people present on each day. Each person comes to two sessions; once as a presenter, once as an audience member. | ||
| Tuesday 11/6 | RCL/TED Talks: Groups 1-3 [Groups 1, 2, and 3 show up to designated place; remaining groups work on Public Controversy Assignment] | ||
| Thursday 11/8 | RCL/TED Talks: Groups 2-4 [Groups 2, 3, and 4 show up to designated place; remaining groups work on Public Controversy Assignment]Blogging, Week 9 (on own) | ||
| Week 12 | |||
| Tuesday 11/13 | RCL/TED Talks: Groups 4-6[Groups 4, 5, and 6 show up todesignated place; remaining groups work on Public Controversy Assignment] | ||
| Thursday 11/15 | RCL/TED Talks: Groups 1, 5, and 6[Groups 1, 5, and 6 show upto designated place; remaining groups work on public controversyassignment]Blogging, Week 10 (on own) | ||
| Week 13 | |||
| 11/20, 11/22 |
THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY (Class will not meet) Continue working on Public Controversy Group Work Plan |
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| Week 14 |
Unit Four: Exploring Public Controversies with Multi-media |
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| Tuesday 11/27 | Discuss Public Controversies “genre” & elements of Public Controversies; Work in class; discuss w/ Casey; project samples? | Public Controversy Topic & Group Work Plan. Show early work. | |
| Thursday 11/29 | Discuss copyright and fair use issues. Discuss readings. Discuss framing questions. View more multi-media project samples. Work in class.Blogging Week 11 | Read “Becoming Screen Literate” by Kevin Kelly (.pdf on RCL course website). Watch coursecast on copyright law. Consult “Composing a Design Plan” (CDA p. 53-88) | Bring working Public Controversy materials to class. |
| Week 15 | |||
| Tuesday 12/4 | DiscussReadings. Discuss combining visual and sonic properties.View more multi-media project samples with an eye—and anear!—to multi-modality and production. Work in class.Mini discussion WKSHP | Read CDA, “About Visual Modes of Communication” (p. 237-282); Watch at least two of the videos (shooting and editing) or read the discussions about those processes at vimeo’s video 101: http://vimeo.com/videoschool/101. | Public Controversy working draft (in some form). |
| Thursday 12/6 | No formal class:Groups meet independently and/ or with Casey to complete multi-media project.Blogging, Week 12 (on own) | ||
| Week 16 | |||
| Tuesday 12/11 | History of a Public Controversy Presentations | ||
| Thursday 12/13 | History of a Public Controversy Presentations | ||
**RCL Plenary Event**
Tuesday, September 4, 7-10 pm
State Theatre (130 W College Avenue)
If you can’t make that time, please attend the 4:00 pm showing.