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CAS 506 – Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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CAS 506 – Contemporary Rhetorical Theory

The past is not dead, as Faulkner memorably wrote: it’s not even the past. Our seminar explores the ways in which memory is put to strategic and stylized purposes in shaping the present. Key themes include memory and the social imaginary, ritual, narrative, war and trauma, and collective identity.

Course Objectives

The seminar is designed to engage students in:

  • Foundational work in the theory and conceptual frames shaping the study of memory;
  • Key historical moments illustrating the play of memory
  • Recurrent opportunities for writing and discussing position statements