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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Argumentation and Debate

(subject to change)
 

Week 1                                                                                                                                 Readings

Aug 27, 30                             Course syllabus, class introduction                                 Chapter 1
                                                Intro to communication theories/areas                             Chapter 2

Week 2
Sept. 3, 5                                Labor Day Sept. 3^rd – No Class
                                                Logic/Fallacies                                                                     Chapter 3, 9

Week 3
Sept. 10, 12                            Writing arguments                                                               Chapters 6, 7
                                                Research

Week 4                 
Sept. 17, 19                            Logic/Writing                                                                       Chapter 8
                                                Delivery

Week 5
Sept. 24, 26                            Analyzing arguments                                                          Chapter 5

Week 6
Oct. 1, 3                                  Visual Rhetoric                                                                     Chapter 4

Week 7
Oct 8, 10                 Problem/Solution Speech                                                  

Week 8                 
Oct. 15, 17                              Fall Break Oct 15-16^th – No Class
                                                Debating                                                                                Chapter 8, 10

Week 9
Oct. 22, 24                              Debating, Cont

Week 10
Oct. 29, 31                              Group Work

Week 11
Nov.  5, 7                               Debates

Week 12
Nov. 12, 14                            Advertising/Monroe’s Motivated Sequence

Week 13
Nov. 19, 21                            Advertising, cont

Week 14
Nov. 26, 28                            Group projects

Week 15
Dec. 3, 5                 Group Presentations

Week 16
Dec. 10                                   Course review
11^th – 14^th                                FINALS- Tentative-
                                                Final Wednesday, Dec. 12th     10:00 – 11:50


 

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