Rhetoric is an ancient art that, as its best practitioners understood, takes a lifetime to master. What follows therefore is merely a series of helpful hints to get you started and to get you thinking.
Contact Information
The Center for Speaking & Listening is located in Jesse Ball duPont Library on the first floor. Parking is available behind the building.
Directors
Sean Patrick O'Rourke, Director
Melody Lehn, Assistant Director
Rhetoric 311: U.S. Public Address I (1620-1865)
Rhetoric 311
: U.S. Public Address I (1620-1865)
History and criticism of American speeches and rhetorical texts. The course examines a broad range of historical and rhetorical factors that influenced the creation and reception of speeches from the colonial period through the end of the Civil War, focusing not only on the political, religious, legal, and social exigencies to which speeches responded but also on the place of those rhetorical texts in U.S. public controversies.
