course materials

On this page you will find materials for this course like the syllabus, assignments, additional readings, and other helpful info.

Course Syllabus and Calendar:

• ENG 316 Syllabus, spring 2010
• KU ENG 316 Calendar S10 (only)

Assignments:

Files will be linked below as they are available.

• Snapshot #1 [due 2/24]
• Snapshot #2 [due 3/3]
• Snapshot #3 [due 4/7
• Final Research Project [due 4/30]
• Blog Postings [ongoing]

Additional Readings:

Readings for Monday, Jan. 25th

• Hauser, “Rhetorical Democracy and Civic Engagement,” in Rhetorical Democaracy [RD], 1-14
• Ian Angus, “What is Democratic Debate.”
• George, “It’s Not About Me: Public Writing and the Place for Principled Dissent,” from Reflections Vol.9.1 (2009), 3-25 [handout/PDF]
• Wilkey, “Engaging Community Literacy though the Rhetorical Work of Social Movement,” from Reflections Vol.9.1 (2009), 26-60 [handout/PDF]
• Gilyard, “Flight West,” from Composition and Cornel West: Notes toward a Deep Democracy, 1-6 [handout/PDF]
• RECOMMENDED: Riedner and Mahoney, “Introduction,” fromDemocracies to Come: Rhetorical Action, Neoliberalism, and Communities of Resistance, 1-15  [handout/PDF]
• RECOMMENDED: Williams, “Democracy,” from Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Revised Edition, 93-98 [handout/PDF]

Articles about WTO protests in Seattle (class discussion, 1/27)

• Thomas Friedman, “Senseless in Seattle,” The (Montreal) Gazette, 12/2/1999
• Patrick McMahon, “Activists Take to the Streets,” USA Today, 11/30/1999
• William Macklin, “From the Fringes to the Front Page,” Philly Inquirer, 12/5/1999
• Noam Chomsky (interview), “Rage Against the Machine,” Ottawa Citizen, 4/14/2000

Article for Class, Monday 2/8

• Scott Lyons, “Rhetorical Sovereignty”

Supplemental Reading for Kates, Activist Rhetorics and American Higher Education, 1887-1937

• Mahoney, “Radical Teaching and Social Movements: Historical Legacies”

Related Articles:

• Boykoff, “Framing Dissent”
• Consensus in Large Groups Handout
• Dupuis-Deri, “Global Protesters v Global Elites”
• Funke-World Social Forum
• Global Social Movements — Before and After 911
• Groarke, “Using Community Power Beyond Neighborhood”
• Internet Activism and Trans-national Public Sphere
• Juris, “New Digital Media and Activist Networking”
• Langman, “Virtual Public Spheres to Global Justice”
• Purcell, “Hegemony and Difference in Political Movements”
• Smith, “Behind The Anti-Globalization Label”
• Stahler-Sholk, “Globalization and Social Movements (Zapatista)”
• Starr and Adams, “Anti-Globalization”
• Wood, “Unity or Diversity”