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Major Requirements
Students must choose a concentration in either rhetorical theory and criticism or in film and television studies. Each major consists of eleven courses distributed as follows:
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Required core courses:
1) RHET 155. What is Rhetoric?
2) One of the following:
RHET 100. Beginning Debate.
RHET 185. Public Discourse.
RHET 291. Introduction to Argumentation.
THEA 101. An Introduction to Drama: Theater and Film.
THEA 263. Voice and Speech.
3) One of the following:
RHET 257. Rhetorical Criticism.
RHET 276. Television Criticism.
4) One of the following:
RHET 260. Lesbian and Gay Images in Film.
RHET 265. The Rhetoric of Women's Rights.
5) AA/RH 162. White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History.
6) Two of the following:
RHET 391A. The Rhetoric of Alien Abduction.
RHET 391B. Presidential Campaign Rhetoric.
RHET 391C. The Harlem Renaissance.
RHET 391D. Argument Theory.
7) RHET 457 and/or 458. Senior Thesis.
8) Students are also required to complete at least one course from each of the following areas. No single course may be used to complete more than one requirement. No more than one Short Term unit may be counted toward the major.
a) Theories of Communication:
ANTH 333. Culture and Interpretation.
CM/RH 160. Classical Rhetoric.
CM/HI 231. Litigation in Classical Athens.
FYS 332. A Raisin in the Sun.
PHIL 195. Introduction to Logic.
PHIL 235. Philosophy of Mind.
PSYC 380. Social Cognition.
b) Representation:
AA/TH 225. The Grain of the Black Image.
AA/TH 226. Minority Images in Hollywood Film.
AV/WS 287. Women, Gender, Visual Culture.
AVC 288. Visualizing Race.
AVC 375. Issues of Sexuality and the Study of Visual Culture.
AVC s32. The Photograph as Document.
FYS 313. Whitelands: Cinematic Nightmares.
INDS 235. The Politics of Pleasure and Desire: Women's Independent and Third Cinema and Video from the African Diaspora.
INDS s25. Black Terror.
RHET 195. Documentary Production.
RHET s18. Goldberg's Canon: Makin' Whoopi.
RHET s31. Conspiracy Rhetoric.
c) Social and Political Movements:
HIST 261. American Protest in the Twentieth Century.
PL/RE 212. Contemporary Moral Disputes.
PLTC 346. Power and Protest.
REL 247. City upon the Hill.
Film and Television Studies
Required core courses:
1) RHET 155. What is Rhetoric?
2) AA/RH 162. White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History.
3) One of the following:
RHET 100. Beginning Debate.
RHET 185. Public Discourse.
RHET 291. Introduction to Argumentation.
THEA 101. An Introduction to Drama: Theater and Film.
THEA 263. Voice and Speech.
4) RHET 260. Lesbian and Gay Images in Film.
5) RHET 276. Television Criticism.
6) Two of the following:
RHET 391A. The Rhetoric of Alien Abduction.
RHET 391B. Presidential Campaign Rhetoric.
RHET 391C. The Harlem Renaissance.
RHET 391D. Argument Theory.
7) RHET 457 and/or 458. Senior Thesis.
8) Students are required to complete three film and television studies courses from among the following. No more than one Short Term unit may be counted toward the major.
AA/TH 226. Minority Images in Hollywood Film.
ANTH 155. Cinematic Portraits of Africa.
AN/PT s22. Politics of Cultural Production: African Films and Filmmaking.
CHI 211. Film and Chinese Modernity.
EN/ES 395Q. Nature and Culture in European Art Film.
FRE s36. The Evolution of French Cinema.
FYS 334. Film Art.
GER s25. The German Cinema.
INDS 235. The Politics of Pleasure and Desire: Women's Independent and Third Cinema and Video from the African Diaspora.
MUS 340. Music and Cinema.
PLTC s16. Arab and Iranian Film as Indicators of Social Change.
REL 100. Religion and Film.
RHET s18. Goldberg's Canon: Makin' Whoopi.
SPAN 217. Literatura en el cine.
SPAN 353. Un curso de cine.
SPAN 354. Revolución en el cine.
THEA 242. Screenwriting.
THEA s33. Central European Theater and Film.
Pass/Fail Grading Option
Students are allowed to take one course pass/fail within the major.
Minor in Rhetoric
The minor consists of six courses. A coherent program for each student's minor is designed in accord with the following guidelines and in consultation with a member of the rhetoric faculty who is chosen or appointed as the student's departmental advisor for the minor.
The courses or units required for the minor in rhetoric include:
1) RHET 155. What is Rhetoric?
2) One of the following:
RHET 255. Rhetorical Criticism.
RHET 276. Television Criticism.
3) AA/RH 162. White Redemption: Cinema and the Co-optation of African American History.
4) One of the following:
RHET 260. Lesbian and Gay Images in Film.
RHET 265. The Rhetoric of Women's Rights.
5) One of the following:
RHET 100. Beginning Debate.
RHET 185. Public Discourse.
RHET 291. Introduction to Argumentation.
THEA 101. An Introduction to Drama: Theater and Film.
THEA 263. Voice and Speech.
6) One of the following:
RHET 391A. The Rhetoric of Alien Abduction.
RHET 391B. Presidential Campaign Rhetoric.
RHET 391C. The Harlem Renaissance.
RHET 391D. Argument Theory.
Pass/Fail Grading Option
One course may be taken pass/fail in fulfilling the minor requirements.
General Education Information for the Classes of 2009 and 2010
Any one rhetoric Short Term unit may serve as an option for the fifth humanities course. |
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