COM-431 Rhetoric of Social Activism

Intensive study of the discourses of social activism. Study and application of the techniques of textual reconstruction, editing, and criticism, as well as interviewing and oral history. Students will work to preserve and provide scholarly access to the speeches of social activists and to the words of the scholars who study them. Course will usually involve travel to one or more scholarly centers and study with those who staff those centers. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.