Office: 316 Sparks Building. Back Right corner of the room.

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Section 08: Tuesday and Thursday 9:05 – 10:20 AM.

Office Hours: Thursday 12:30 – 1:30 and by appointment.

On occasion, I will need to switch office hours from Thursday to Friday, which I will announce through Canvas before that week starts. For unit conferences, you will sign up using www.signupgenius.com

Required Reading and Course Textbooks

The Essential Guide to Rhetoric. Second Edition. Keith and Lundberg. ISBN: 978-1319094195

Course readings on CANVAS.

Sample student work at Penn State RCL: sites.psu.edu/pennstatercl

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Rhetoric and Civic Life (RCL) is a year-long honors course offering comprehensive training in oral, written, visual, and digital communication for the twenty-first century. It unites these various modes under the flexible art of rhetoric and uses rhetoric both to strengthen communication skills and to sharpen awareness of the challenges and advantages presented by oral, written, visual, and digital modes.

RCL I focuses particularly on two critical academic capacities: analyzing and contextualizing. In this semester, students learn to rigorously examine the rhetoric surrounding them, compellingly present their findings in various modes, and thoughtfully contextualize their research.