Rhetoric in Popular Culture
General
Prefix
ENGL
Course Number
306
Course Level
Undergraduate
Instruction Mode
Lecture
Department/Unit(s)
College/School
College of Liberal Arts
Description
Rhetorical influences of popular culture; critical interpretation and analysis of print, digital, and visual texts; multi-media technologies; and organizational systems.
Credits
Min
3
Max
3
Repeatable
No
Goals and Diversity
MN Goal Course
Yes
MN Goal Designation(s)
02, 06
Cultural Diversity
No
Learning Outcomes
Outcome
Recognize the multiple genres and media (e.g., books, film, print, and electronic texts) that constitute popular culture and explain how these artifacts function as cultural representations, performances, and expressions of human experience.
Outcome
Evaluate how the construction and consumption of popular culture artifacts conveys collective values and group identifications.
Outcome
Analyze textual and contextual evidence, evaluate popular culture artifacts, and support their conclusions through argument and critical thinking.
Outcome
Apply rhetorical analysis tools to discriminate between discourses of popular culture that contain reasoning and those discourses that lack reasoning.
Outcome
Explain how popular culture uses premises, conclusions, and other rhetorical devices to influence their thinking and action.
Outcome
Critique the rhetorical appeals in popular culture discourse for fallacies of reasoning.
Outcome
Distinguish between inductive and deductive reasoning in popular culture discourse.
Outcome
Examine their own group/cultural identifications in relation to popular culture artifacts and to negotiate informed responses to, and interpretations of, those artifacts.