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CALENDAR INFORMATION:
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Department:
English
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Course Number: 815
Title: Studies in Rhetoric, Compositibn, and Literacy
Description:_.
Credit Hours:5
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Prerequisite(s) if any:
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ENROLLMENT AND SCHEDULING:
Estimated Enrollment:
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When will the course first. be
offered:
82-3 -
How often will the course be offered:
once
every six semesters
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JUSTIFICATIONS
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RESOURCES:
Which Faculty member will normally teach the course:
Prof.
Richard Coe
What are the budgetary implications of mounting the course:
see Library Evaluation
Are there sufficient Library resources (append details):
yes
Appended: a Outline of the Course
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An indication of the competence of the Faculty member to give the course
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English 815: Studies in Rhetoric, Compositiop, and Literacy
Rationale:
1.
Course content. The course may be given with emphasis on one or
more of the threiTields named in its title. Rhetoric includes the
traditional arts of oratory, argument, and persuasion, and their
development into the modern era. Composition includes the the ..ry and
practice of expository prose, witi emphasis on a variety of non-fictional
writing forms. Literacy includes the social iriiplications of writing,
reading, and speech, and the changing roles of these activities in
history, society, and culture.
2.
Demand for the course. In recent years. English Departments in
North America have become increasingly concerned with the practical uses
of language, and with theories that describe and explain such uses. A
large and lively scholarly literature has arien, and the field of
rhetoric, composition, and literacy has become quite distinct from the
disciplines of linguistics and stylistics.
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Both UBC and the University of Victoria already have graduate courses in
rhetoric; by establishing such a course at SFU we can make our own contribu-
tion to this subject area, and meet the needs of many graduate students
in English, and of teachers already working in the public schools.
Competence of faculty to offer this course:
Dr. Richard Coe, whose book, Form and Substance: An Advanced Rhetoric,
was published by John Wiley thTyear, has been hired by the English
Department as a specialist in rhetoric. He his already taught a comparable
graduate course under the rubric of English Gil, which is really Studies
in Language, and which we want to differentiate from the presently
proposed course. A course outline and reading list of Dr. Coe's course
from 81-2 is appended.
In addition to Dr. Coe, who will probably teach the course most frequently,
a number of the other members of the English Department are likely in
future years to wish to teach it with a somewhat different emphasis.
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Curke, K.
Burke, K.
Richards, I.A.
Cooper, C. &
Odell, L.,eds.
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A Rhetoric of Motives
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An extensive list of books on reserve in the L ihr
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Course Reciements:
Intensive seminar participation (l'), one oral
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and one seminar paper (70%) (iiinlmum length: 6900 words).
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