COMS 435 - Social Movement Rhetoric

3 credit hours
A survey and criticism of the rhetoric of social movements throughout U.S. history. The purpose of this course is to analyze the changing styles of rhetoric revealed in the public address of U.S. citizens as they respond(ed) to the historically and constantly changing cultural and social contexts such as abolition, women’s suffrage, and 20th-century Civil Rights movements including the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, 2nd Wave Feminism, and the contemporary LGBT rights movement. Prerequisite(s): COMS 101 or 102, and ENG 102 or 104.