COMM 8530 - Advanced Rhetorical Theory: From the Ancients to the Enlightenment

3 Hours
The mechanisms of persuasion and the relationship between public speech and politics attracted interest from a range of thinkers from antiquity to the Enlightenment. The course seeks to better understand these historical resources of rhetorical invention and recovery to build interpretive tools for analyzing contemporary phenomena.

Prerequisite(s): None.
Corequisite(s): None.
Pre/Corequisite(s): None.
Requirements: None.