Past Syllabi
2016-2017
Fall 2016
CAT 1
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Winter 2017
CAT 2
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Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing
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Phoebe Bronstein: A House Is (Not) a Home: Theorizing Race, Gender, and Technology at Home
CAT 125
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Amanda Solomon: (Re)Presenting Self: Personal Identity Formations and Public Rhetoric
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Diane Forbes Berthoud: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
CAT 125R
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Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Spring 2017
CAT 3
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Phoebe Bronstein: Art of the Protest: Cultural Production, Protest, and Technologies of Change
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Ash Smith: Love and Death in the Anthropocene: Sci-Fi for Speculative Design
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Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
CAT 125
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Diane Forbes Berthoud: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
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Ash Smith: Storytelling: Strategies of Self/Team, Authenticity, Creativity, and Digital Media
Summer 2017
CAT 125R
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
2017-2018
Fall 2017
CAT 1
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Phoebe Bronstein: A Hollywood History: Filming America From "Boxing Cats" to Jaws
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Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Winter 2018
CAT 2
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Michael Trigilio: REMIX: Authorship of the "Found" in "Public" Space
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Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing
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Phoebe Bronstein: A House Is (Not) a Home: Theorizing Race, Gender, and Technology at Home
CAT 87
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Spring 2018
CAT 3
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Alex Sartor: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Summer 2018
CAT 125R
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Ash Smith: Games We Play: Games, Performance, and Play
2018-2019
Fall 2018
CAT 1
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Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
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Phoebe Bronstein: A Hollywood History: Filming America From "Boxing Cats" to Jaws
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Michael Ano: Visual ReExperience: A Nonlinear Guide to a History of Looking at Things
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Winter 2019
CAT 2
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Phoebe Bronstein: Media-Made America: America's Small-Screen Geographies
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Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing
CAT 87
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Spring 2019
CAT 3
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Ash Smith: Simulation and Play: The Art and Science of Pretend
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Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
CAT 87
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Summer 2019
CAT 125R
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Ash Smith: Simulation and Play: The Art and Science of Pretend
2019-2020
Fall 2019
CAT 1
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Guillermo Algaze: Origins
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Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
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William Tronzo: The History of Painting: A User's Guide (from Lascaux to Jackson Pollock)
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Yasmine Kasem: Hidden Bodies: Representations of Muslim Women in History and Media
CAT 87
CAT 125
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
CAT 125R
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Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Winter 2020
CAT 2
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Guillermo Algaze: Cities and States
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Tal Golan: Law of Men and Laws of Nature: Science, Technology, and Law
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Liz Gumm: The Contemporary Gothic: Literature of Horror, Mystery, and Grief
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Pinar Yoldas: Art and Brain
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Spring 2020
CAT 3
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Liz Gumm: Surviving or Thriving: Narratives of Apocalypse and the Aftermath
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Amelia Glaser: Translation
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Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
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Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Media, Technology, and the Future of the Planet
CAT 125
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
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Jen Marchisotto: Stories of Ourselves: Public Rhetorics of Identity
CAT 125R
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Kevin Zhang: Digital Writing and Rhetoric
Summer 2020
CAT 1
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Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
CAT 125R
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Phoebe Bronstein: To Tell Your Story: Public Rhetoric, Media, and Autobiography
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Jennifer Marchisotto: Stories of Ourselves: Public Rhetorics of Identity
2020-2021
Fall 2020
CAT 1
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Stanley Chodorow: The Transformation of Cities
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Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
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Phoebe Bronstein: A Hollywood History: Filming America From "Boxing Cats" to Jaws
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Guillermo Algaze: Origins
CAT 125R
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Liz Gumm: Mindful Rhetoric
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Winter 2021
CAT 2
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Guillermo Algaze: Cities and States
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Liz Gumm: The Contemporary Gothic: Literature of Horror, Mystery, and Grief
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Amelia Glaser: Russia and the US
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Phoebe Bronstein: To Tell Your Story: Public Rhetoric, Media, and Autobiography
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Spring 2021
CAT 3
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Adam Burgasser: Our Future Climate: Envisioning Our Collective Future
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Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Media, Technology, and the Future of the Planet
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Matthew Herbst and Lisa Porter: Representation and Rights: Disability in History and the Arts
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Summer 2021
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Bobby Edwards: Public Rhetoric, Personal Narrative, and the Politics of Voice
2021-2022
Fall 2021
CAT 1
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Guillermo Algaze: Origins
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Phoebe Bronstein: Un/Natural Spaces: American Media and Histories of Environmental Representation
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Stanley Chodorow: The Transformation of Cities
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Winter 2022
CAT 2
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Joe Bigham: The Process of Music: A Study of Listening, Composing, and Performing
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Phoebe Bronstein: Media-Made America: America's Small-Screen Geographies
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Spring 2022
CAT 3
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Adam Burgasser: Our Future Climate: Envisioning Our Collective Future
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Babak Rahimi: Futurism: Histories and Political Aesthetics of Tomorrow
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Phoebe Bronstein and Bill Robertson Geibel: Environmental Futures: Community-Engaged Learning
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Jennifer Marchisotto: Subversive Speculation: BIPOC Genre Fiction
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Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
CAT 125
CAT 125R
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Joe Bigham: Developing Expertise through Digital Media
Summer 2022
CAT 1
CAT 2
CAT 125GS
CAT 125R
2022-2023
Fall 2022
CAT 1
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Phoebe Bronstein: Un/Natural Spaces: American Media and Histories of Environmental Representation
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Joe Bigham: From Hillbilly Music to Hip-Hop: US Culture and Popular Music
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Jennifer Marchisotto: Twice Upon a Time: Lore, Adaptation, and Identity
CAT 3
CAT 125R
Winter 2023
CAT 2
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Guillermo Algaze: Cities and States
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Phoebe Bronstein: Media-Made America: America's Small-Screen Geographies
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Hoang Nguyen: Asian Diasporas in Film and Media
CAT 125
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Romain Delaville: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
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Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
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Celeste Morales: To Tell Your Story
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Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
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Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
CAT 125R
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Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
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Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
Spring 2023
CAT 3
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Jennifer Marchisotto: Subversive Speculation: BIPOC Genre Fiction
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Joe Bigham: Futures Through Music-Making: Videos, Virtuality, and the Bop Gun
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Phoebe Bronstein: Environmental Futures: Community-Engaged Learning
CAT 125
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Joe Bigham: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
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Maya VanderSchuit: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
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Adriana Tosun: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication
CAT 125R
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Tina Hyland: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online
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Lauryn Smith: Public Rhetoric and Practical Communication Online