Feb 05, 2025  
2021-2022 College of Liberal Arts 
    
2021-2022 College of Liberal Arts
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ENGH 248 - History of Rhetoric

4 credits
Rhetoric, most typically defined as “the art of persuasion,” has had a variety of descriptions based on the describer and his or her historical context. Students may study the changing definitions of rhetoric from 5th-century B.C. Greece to contemporary American culture and why those changes took place. Students will also have the opportunity to analyze rhetoric’s relation to politics, religion, law and cultural identity from antiquity to the present day. CLA-Breadth/Humanities



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