May 06, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2020-21 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2020-21 [Archived Catalog]

Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)

COMS 6350 - Foucault, Discourse, and Social Change


The overarching goal of this seminar is to develop a clearer sense of what it means to have rhetorical agency in a postmodern world. In moving toward that goal, we will interrogate Foucault’s work that bears on the themes of discourse, knowledge/power, subject, and space.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Apply Foucault’s concepts in a critical analysis of public discourse.
  • Critically appraise Foucault’s relationship to rhetoric.
  • Define and explain Foucault’s sense of power as productive.
  • Define and explain key terms in Foucault’s perspective.



Add to Portfolio (opens a new window)