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Ball State University
English 695
 Sp 2007

Course Schedule

(subject to revision)
last revised Apr 19, 2007

    Readings and Assignments (in Bizzell and Herzberg 2nd ed. unless otherwise indicated)

Topic Focus
Week 1 Jan 11 1-7 general intro to rhet
19-28 Intro to classical rhet
56-63 Aspasia
67-79 Isocrates
80-86 Plato intro
169-86 Aristotle (Bk I, I-III)		 Greek Classical Background: 
Aspasia, Isocrates, Plato, Aristotle
Week 2 Jan 18 243-57;272-74 (XLII-XLIV) Rhetorica ad Herennium
1. Carolyn

Cicero handout
De inventione, Book I
2. Claire

 Roman Classical Background: 
Rhetorica ad Herennium

Cicero De inventione
Week 3 Jan 25 369-73 (II.IV)
383-418 (II.XIII-XXI; X.II-VI; XII.1)
Quintilian
3. Claire		 Roman Classical Background: 
Quintilian

Classical Review
Week 4 Feb 1 431-47
486-91 Boethius et al
4. Brian		 Introduction to Medieval Rhetoric 
Boethius

Excerpts:
Martianus Capella, De nuptiis
C. Fortunatianus, Artis rhetoricae
Isadore of Seville, Etymologiae
Week 5 Feb 8 450-85 
5. Nikki		 Augustine, De doctrina christiana

Excerpt:
Rabanus Maurus, De clericorum institutione
Week 6 Feb 15

503-24 Geoffrey
6. David

Ars Poetriae (verse composition)
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Poetria Nova
Week 7 Feb 22 492-502 Principles
7. Dani

525-39 plus handout; see Readings table
8. Carolyn
 

 Ars Dictaminis
Principles of Letter Writing

Ars Praedicandi
Robert of Basevorn,  The Form of Preaching
Week 8 Mar 1 555-80 Medieval Review - Mock Midterm

Introduction to Renaissance Rhetoric 
Week 9 Mar 8 Agricola handout
9.

Erasmus, De copia  581-627 plus handout of additional pages
10. Dani

 Agricola, De inventione dialectica

Erasmus, De copia

Spring
Break		 Mar 12-16    
Week 10 Mar 22 Erasmus, De conscribendis handout
11. Nikki

Erasmus, Ecclesiastes  628-50

 Erasmus, De conscribendis epistolis
Erasmus, Ecclesiastes
Week 11 Mar 29 674-97
12. Brian

Handout (in Course Documents in BBD)

 Peter Ramus , Arguments...against Quintilian

Questions of Brutus
Week 12 Apr 5 698-735
13. David		 Thomas Wilson and Rhetoric in England 
Week 13 Apr 12 Handout in 695 BlackBoard Area, Course Documents Case Study Angel Day, The English Secretary 1592 (First English language treatise on letter writing)
Week 14 Apr 19 736-47
14.
Handout		 Francis Bacon

 
Week 15 Apr 26 Course review - Bring 2 Exam Questions (1 from first half of course, one from second)  

Distribute Course-Instructor Evaluations
Final Essay due Apr. 29
Week 16 Exam Week   Final Exam -- in class, open book

2:15 May 2