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Undergraduate Midterm Assignment
Undergraduate Final Assignment
Graduate Seminar Paper Assignment
Course Objectives:
(1) to gain a sense of the breadth and impact of ancient Greek and Roman
rhetorical theory on Western thought; (2) to interrogate the emphasis on these
ancient traditions in the 21st century; (3) to consider the diversity of rhetorical
analysis made possible by these traditions; (4) and to imagine the implications
of those analytical methods for specific examples of human expressive behavior.
Grading and Assignments:
Individual Assignments with Weights
Undergraduate Students
5%: class participation and attendance
The instructor will base this grade on attendance and discussion participation.
5%: 5 posts in response to weekly graduate response papers (You are welcomed to initiate new threads, but that won't count toward the 5!) of 100 or more words.
The instructor will base this grade on completion of the five (1% each) posts to the discussion forum.
10%: midterm presentation
The midterm presentation will provide a 3-5 minute lexical analysis of a key classical concept based in its Greek and/or Latin forms as covered by a single word in English as approved by the instructor. The student will use the Peruses web site to accomplish this lexical analysis and that analysis will be formally written and submitted at the midterm paper. The dates for these presentations will be given throughout the course. It is the student's responsibility to be sure a date in scheduled in time and before the midterm paper due date.
30%: midterm paper
The paper must be 2-5 pages/500 - 2500 words.THE WORDS WILL BE COUNTED AND YOU WILL NOT PASS THE COURSE IF YOUR WORD COUNT OF THE BODY OF THE TEXT IS SHORT.
This paper will be a brief lexical analysis of a key classical concept in its Greek and/or Latin forms as covered by a single word in English as approved by the instructor. . The student will use the Peruses web site to accomplish this lexical analysis. The term or terms must be approved by Professor Howard in face-to-face or email correspondence.
The paper must be emailed to the instructor by the due date via email attachment in pdf., .rtf, .or .doc format.10%: final paper presentation
Undergraduate students will be asked to give a 3-8 minute informal presentation of the topic of their final paper for course during the last two weeks of class meetings. Each presentation will be followed by discussions and all students are expected to attend and participate in these discussions.
40%: final paper
The paper must be 6-12 pages/1500 - 3000 words.THE WORDS WILL BE COUNTED AND YOU WILL NOT PASS THE COURSE IF YOUR WORD COUNT OF THE BODY OF THE TEXT IS SHORT.
The topic must be approved by Professor Howard in face-to-face or email correspondence. The topic will be one of two types. Either (1) the paper will apply a theory or concept from classical rhetorical theory to a specific text of the student's choosing or (2) the paper will explore a theory or concept from classical rhetorical theory in terms of its implications for human communication today.
The paper must be emailed to the instructor by the due date via email attachment in rtf, .doc, or .docx format.
Graduate Students
10% discussion participation
Graduate students will be expected to attend every seminar meeting having completed all the reading up to that point in the course and able to present an initial summary and discussion of the historical and theoretical content of all those readings at any time.
20% weekly response papers emailed by 11 PM the night before each meeting to the class discussion board. Give your thread a snappy title.
The weekly response papers will be between 200 and 500 words and will be graded plus, check, or minus based on being done on time, on topic, and to length. THERE WILL BE NO MAKEUPS OR LATE RESPONSES SO SEND THEM EARLY TO GET THE POINTS.
10% final paper presentation
Graduate students will be asked to give a 10-15 minute informal presentation of the topic of their final paper for course during the last two weeks of class meetings. Each presentation will be followed by discussions and all students are expected to attend and participate in these discussions.
60% seminar length paper
The paper must be 20 -30 pages/6,000 - 10,000 words. THE WORDS WILL BE COUNTED AND YOU WILL NOT PASS THE COURSE IF YOUR WORD COUNT OF THE BODY OF THE TEXT IS SHORT.
The topic must be approved by Professor Howard in face-to-face or email correspondence. The topic will be one of two types. Either (1) the paper will apply a theory or concept from classical rhetorical theory to a specific text of the students choosing or (2) the paper will explore a theory or concept from classical rhetorical theory in terms of its implications for rhetorical theory today.
The paper must be emailed to your section instructor by the due date via email attachment in .rtf ,.doc, or docx format.
Full attendance is required of all students. Because discussion sections are not interchangeable, students must attend the section for which they are registered or they will not be graded and will fail the course. Because the ideas and meanings in a course such as this emerge in the interaction between the instructors and students, students missing more than 3 meetings shall not have participated at an acceptable level and may fail the course. Students not attending lectures will miss material not otherwise available and are obligated to seek out that material from classmates. To avoid duplication and reserve both office hours and class time for students attending lectures, please do not ask the instructors to recapitulate material missed or not understood as a result of not attending lectures.
Required Texts (Please purchase):
CA570 Online Course Readings
(Available through links on the schedule page.)
Vico, Giambattista. 1990. On the Study Methods of Our Time, Elio Gianturco. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
(Available to order for purchase at Amazon.com and similar. Please order on or before the first day of class.)
Supplementary Texts (Recommended for consultation as necessary, but not required):
Boardman, John. 2002. The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
(Available for purchase at the Underground Campus Textbook Exchange.)
Boatwright, Mary, Daniel J. Gargola, and Richard J. A. Talbert. 2004. The Romans: From Village to Empire. Oxford University Press: Oxford.
(Available for purchase at the Underground Campus Textbook Exchange.)
Kennedy, George A. 1994. A New History of Classical Rhetoric. Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey.
(Available for purchase at the Underground Campus Textbook Exchange.)
