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Old Schedule
How To Read This Schedule: All readings will be completed before class on the date on which they are assigned. Anything in bold is work to be completed before class and brought with you on the day listed. Paper due dates, also in bold, indicate that the completed manuscript of your paper must be in the correct dropbox on eCampus before class starts on the day indicated.
Week 1 Introduction + Sophists
Mon 01/13
- Course Overview
Wed 01/15
- Gorgias, “Encomium for Helen”
Fri 01/17
- Finish Gorgias
- Anonymous, Dissoi Logoi
Week 2 Beyond Oral Speech
Mon 01/20
No Class
MLK Day
Wed 01/22
- Finish Anonymous
- Plato, Euthyphro
Fri 01/24
- Finish Euthyphro
Week 3 Platonic Rhetoric I
Mon 01/27
- Plato, Gorgias
- Read to 474a
Wed 01/29
- Plato, Gorgias
- Read to 501a
Fri 01/31
- Plato, Gorgias
- Finish
Week 4 Rhetoric Responds
Mon 02/03
- Isocrates, “Against the Sophists”
Wed 02/05
- No Class
Fri 02/07
- Finish Isocrates
- Alcidamas, “Against the Sophists”
Week 5 Platonic Rhetoric II
Mon 02/10
- Finish Alcidamas
Wed 02/12
- Plato, Phaedrus
- 227a-243e
Fri 02/14
- Plato, Phaedrus
- 244a-261d
Week 6 Rhetoric's First System
Mon 02/17
- Plato, Phaedrus
- Rest
Wed 02/19
- Aristotle, The Rhetoric
Fri 02/21
- Aristotle, The Rhetoric
- Book I: All Chapters
- Book II: Chapters 1-3, 12-13, 18-25
- Book III: Chapters 1-2, 13
- Short Paper 1 Due, 11:59PM
Week 7 Roman Rhetoric I
Mon 02/24
- Aristotle, The Rhetoric
Wed 02/26
- Cicero, From De Oratore, Book I
Fri 02/28
- Cicero, From De Oratore, Book II
Week 8 Roman Rhetoric II
Mon 03/02
- Finish Cicero
Wed 03/04
- Quintilian, Book II from Institutes of Oratory
Fri 03/06
- Quintilian, Book X, Ch. 2-6 from Institutes of Oratory
Week 9 Spring Break
Mon 03/09
No Class
Spring Break
Wed 03/11
No Class
Spring Break
Fri 03/13
No Class
Spring Break
Week 10 Early Christian Rhetoric
Mon 03/16
- No Class
Wed 03/18
- No Class
Fri 03/20
- No Class
Week 11 Medieval Adaptations
Mon 03/23
- St. Augustine, On Christian Teaching
Wed 03/25
- Alberic of Monte Cassino, The Flowers of Rhetoric
Fri 03/27
- Christine de Pizan, From The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Week 12 Eloquence
Mon 03/30
- Finish de Pizan
- Castiglione, From The Book of the Courtier
Wed 04/01
- Finish Castiglione
Fri 04/03
- No Class
Week 13 Attacks From Reason
Mon 04/06
- Erasmus, From De Copia
Wed 04/08
- Erasmus, From De Copia
- Short Paper 2 Due, 11:59PM
Fri 04/10
No Class
Reading Day
Week 14 Women and Rhetoric
Mon 04/13
- Erasmus, From De Copia
Wed 04/15
Fri 04/17
- Finish Ramus
- John Locke, From An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Week 15 Rhetoric's Afterlife
Mon 04/20
- Margaret Fell, Women’s Speaking Justified
Wed 04/22
- Finish Fell
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, From La Respuesta
- Read from pages 77 to 93
Fri 04/24
- Finish Sor Juana
Week 16
Mon 04/27
- Maria Edgeworth, From “An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification”
Tue 04/28
- Finish Edgeworrth
- Giambattista Vico, From On the Study of Methods of Our Time