This course is designed for upper-level students to examine rhetoric in the contemporary political setting, and to explore a range of theoretical and practical issues including campaign strategies, ethics, and the impact of campaigns on the policymaking process. While the focus will shift according to professor, the course will pay special attention to prudence or a politician's ability to apply right reasoning to action. Scholars discussing prudence, particularly Aristotle and Machiavelli, will be addressed. The central aim will be to understand prudence's theoretical and practical possibilities in contemporary American politics.
RHM 435: Seminar in Political Rhetoric
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