Winter 2009 Rhetoric/Composition Seminars
There are three Rhetoric/Composition seminars scheduled for the Winter 2009 semester:
ENG 6010 (Tutoring Practicum)
Wednesdays 9:00-9:00 PM
Professor Gwen Gorzelsky
This seminar combines tutoring experience with reading and discussion of scholarship on writing. Students will totor in one of several possible contexts for 20 hours during the semester. We will read research and theory on writing process, pedagogy, and assessment. We will discuss and respond to this scholarship in class and use it to design classroom and tutoring activities. Major assignments include a 1 and 1/2 hour research presentation, a 1/2 hour grammer instruction presentation, a 12 page assessment project, and a weekly tutoring journal.
ENG 7007 (Composition Theory)
Mondays 6:00-9:00 PM
Professor Ruth Ray
ENG 7063 (Historical Studies in Composition and Rhetoric)
Thursdays 6:00-9:00 PM
Professor Frances Ranney
This course will read across the history of rhetoric to trace perceived relationships among body, mind, and spirit/soul in both primary texts and commentary. We will begin with Plato’s spirituality and Aristotle’s psychology, and mark the appearances and disappearances of various aspects of this trinity with Augustine, Ramus, Descartes, and Locke; the scientism of Bacon and the faculty psychology of Bain; and, finally, to recent embodied rhetorics that address the privileging of mind in the rhetorical tradition. One question we will return to on a recurring basis: what happened to the soul? In an attempt to “find” it, we will read widely in resistance and non-traditional rhetorics of women, abolitionists, and those races as “other.”
