Coursework

Rhetorical Studies

Kenneth Burke (Randall Lake, PhD) (audit); the Burke corpus, from Counter-Statement through Language as Symbolic Action.
Rhetorical Criticism (Randall Lake, PhD); contemporary trends within the discipline.
Directed Research: Communication Ethics (Stephen D. O'Leary, PhD)
Argumentation (Randall Lake, PhD); Perelman, Toulmin, and contemporary trends within the discipline.
Postmodern Philosophy and Rhetorical Theory (Douglas Thomas, PhD); Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Deleuze.
Contemporary Rhetorical Theory (Walter R. Fisher, PhD); Modernist rhetoric, beginning with Blair, Campbell, and Whately, up through Gadamer, Habermas, and contemporary rhetorical theorists including Farrell and Fisher.
Classical Rhetoric (Stephen D. O'Leary, PhD); from the pre-Socratic philosophers through St. Augustine.
Media and Politics (Thomas Hollihan, PhD); mass media and Presidential campaigns.
Historical and Critical Research Methods (Douglas Thomas, PhD); Marx, Lukacs, Freud, Lacan, Laclau and Mouffe, Zizek.
Process and Theories of Communication (Thomas Hollihan, PhD); proseminar on the history of rhetoric and its twentieth century development in speech communication.

Communication Theory

Advances in Communication Theory and Research (Michael J. Cody, PhD); proseminar on current research in Communication.
Research Methods in Communication (Lynn C. Miller, PhD); research design and basic statistical analysis.

Outside Courses

Normative Analysis of Issues (William May, PhD, Religious Studies); seminar on contemporary intersections of moral theory and policy decision methods.
The Political Economists and Their Critics (John Elliott, PhD, Economics & Political Economy); seminar on foundations of classical political economy in the 18th c. and forward, including among others Adam Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Marx, Schumpeter, and Keynes.
Political Economy (John Elliott, PhD, Economics & Political Economy) (audit); seminar on major theories and literatures of modern political economy, including among others Alford & Friedland, Caparaso & Levine, Clark, Galbraith, Lindblom, Schumpeter, and Skocpol.
Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies: Modernity and Visual Culture (Daniel Tiffany, PhD (English)); seminar in the uses and implications of visual metaphors in contemporary thought; readings included excerpts from Leibniz, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kant, Blanchot, Pound, Benjamin, Jay, Crary, Agamben, and others.