SCIENCE AND ITS RHETORIC   [Archived Catalog]
2020-2021 Graduate & Professional Studies Catalog
   

COMMRC 2285 - SCIENCE AND ITS RHETORIC


Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar will explore the following questions: what role, if any, do rhetorical interpretations play in the discourse of science? Can the acceptance of scientific ideas be exhaustively explained in terms of epistemic criteria alone, or is there always necessarily recourse to rhetorical topoi? What role does rhetoric play in the internal dialogues of science, and how is rhetoric mobilized when science addresses its lay audience? These questions will be explored through exemplary cases chosen from both the natural and the human sciences.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Grad LG/SNC Basis


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