2:30 - 5:30; Tuesdays in Grainger 2175
Professor Rob Howard
rgh@rghoward.com
http://rghoward.com/
OH: 6170 Vilas Communication Hall by appointment.
(Please email the instructor to make an appointment.)


Schedule
 
A1 Prompt

A2 Prompt

 
 
Course Objectives:
(1) to consider the power, persuasion, and authorities that can become embedded in discourse as is mediated by network communication technologies, (2) to consider, choose, and execute methods to collect such discourse, (3) to rhetorically analyze such discourse, (3) and to develop and execute a rhetorical analysis that locates and critiques the power, persuasion, and/or authority embedded a specific document of discourse that has been mediated by a network communication technology .

Grading Scale:

Grading Scale in Percents of Total Possible Earned Points
 
A : 100 - 93%
AB: 92 - 88%
B: 87 - 83%
BC: 82 - 78%
C: 77 - 70%
D: 69-60%
F: below 60%
Individual Assignments with Weights:
 
Undergraduate Students
10%: discussion participation
25%: first assignment
The paper must be 1-5 pages/250-1,250 words excluding all notes, bibliographic data, and/or works cited pages and in .rtf or .doc format..
The document directory must be a separate folder containing at least one documented online communciation.
The paper and document directory must be brought to class on a USB storage device on your group critique day in and then left with your instructor after the class meeting. The paper must be in .rtf or .doc format. The media will be returned at the following class meeting.
25%: presentation
40%: second assingment
The paper must be 8-32 pages/2000 - 8000 words excluding all notes, bibliographic data, and/or works cited pages and in .rtf or .doc format.
The document directory must be a separate folder containing more than one related documented online communciation.
The paper and document directory must turned in on or before scheduled due date on a USB storage device.
 
Graduate Students
20% class participation
15%: first assignment

The paper must be 1-5 pages/250-1,250 words excluding all notes, bibliographic data, and/or works cited pages and in .rtf or .doc format..
The document directory must be a separate folder containing at least one documented online communciation.
The paper and document directory must be brought to class on a USB storage device on your group critique day in and then left with your instructor after the class meeting. The paper must be in .rtf or .doc format. The media will be returned at the following class meeting.

15%: presentation
50%: second assignment
The paper must be 20 -30 pages/6,000 - 10,000 words excluding all notes, bibliographic data, and/or works cited pages.
The document directory must be a separate folder containing more than one related documented online communciation.
The paper and document directory must turned in on or before scheduled due date on a USB storage device.

Required Equipment:

Online Readings
(Available through links on the course schedule page.)
 
Books
(Available for purchase at the University Book Store.)
Baym, Nancy K. 2010. Personal Connections in the Digital Age. Malden, MA: Polity Press.

Gray, Mary L. 20009. Out in the Country: Youth,Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. New York: NYU Press.

Howard, Robert Glenn. 2011. Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet. New York: NYU Press.

Papacharissi, Zizi A. 2010. A Private Sphere: Democracy in a Digital Age. Malden, MA: Polity Press.
 
Storage Media
a USB storage device capable of holding at least 4 gigabytes and able to be left with your instructor

Attendance:

Full attendance is required of all students. Because the ideas and meanings in a course such as this emerge in the interaction between the instructor and students, students missing more than 2 course meetings shall not have participated at an acceptable level and may fail the course.