1/19: Week #1
Lecture/discussion: Introduction. Syllabus Review. Burke and Rhetorical Theory
Required Reading: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method

1/26: Week #2
Lecture/discussion: The Varieties of Burke
Required Reading: Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method

2/2: Week #3
Lecture/discussion: Counter Statement
Required Reading: Counter Statement and Towards a Better Life

2/9: Week #4
Lecture/discussion: Permanence and Change
Required Reading: Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose

2/16: Week #5
Lecture/discussion: Attitudes Toward History
Required Reading: Attitudes Toward History

2/23: Week #6
Lecture/discussion: The Philosophy of Literary Form
Required Reading: The Philosophy of Literary Form

3/2: Week #7
Lecture/discussion: A Grammar of Motives
Required Reading: A Grammar of Motives

3/9: Week #8
Lecture/discussion: A Grammar of Motives II
Required Reading: A Grammar of Motives
250 - 500 Word Paper Prospectus Due via email to rgh[NOSPAM]rghoward.com by 5 PM

3/16: Week #9
Use this week to research items for your paper

Spring Break: 3/19 - 3/28

3/30: Week #10
Lecture/discussion: A Rhetoric of Motives
Required Reading: A Rhetoric of Motives

4/6: Week #11
Lecture/discussion: The Rhetoric of Religion
Required Reading: The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology

4/13: Week #12
Lecture/discussion: Logology
Required Reading: The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology

4/20: Week #13
Lecture/discussion: Paper Presentations

4/27: Week #14
Lecture/discussion: Paper Presentations

5/6: Week #15
Lecture/discussion: Course Review, Discussion, and Evaluations