At a doctoral student's program of study meeting today, the student asked me if I could send him an old syllabus for the grad course on rhetoric and visual culture I'll be teaching next year. I told him yes, but I also let him know that the old ones will look pretty different from the new one. The first iteration was more theory-focused and the second iteration was more criticism-focused. Next year's version will be more historically focused. This discussion caused blogos and I to return to a recent riff in which we suggested we should advertise such changes with catchy slogans: "Aristotle's Rhetoric: Now with more reading!"
For the record, next semester the publics course will, in fact, have 20% more Habermas and be fortified with deliberative democracy. I'm also adding stuff on transnationalism and global publics, but I couldn't fit that on the box.
[make your own cereal box]
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