Rhetorical Theory And History
This course introduces students to the scholarly study of rhetoric by exploring the interrelationship of theory, criticism, and practice within a particular historical context.
This course introduces students to the scholarly study of rhetoric by exploring the interrelationship of theory, criticism, and practice within a particular historical context.
This course examines theories of rhetorical argument. Students read rhetorical theorists who speculate about what makes certain speech persuasive, as well as contemporary rhetoricians who are actually creating persuasive written and oral texts. Students use these theories to analyze and construct original arguments. Subtitle focus announced the preceding semester. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of six credits.
This course examines the work that writing does in the world by connecting the study of persuasion in specific social movements, campaigns, and genres with opportunities for students to create texts and campaigns. This course may offer a historical or contemporary focus, and may examine local, regional, national, or transnational movements.
Flexible course hours that supplement an existing course or provide advanced training in a particular area of writing, rhetoric, or digital studies. This course is a Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR) course in certain programs, and hence is not likely to be eligible for automatic transfer credit to UK.
A-S 480 is a seminar style class that looks at the business side of photography. Through this class students will look at different careers and business practices in the photography world. Students will work through exercises in goal setting, financial management, networking, branding, portfolio design and much more. This class is broad enough for students to feel prepared to enter numerous photographic fields after graduation.
This is a survey course designed to cover the entire field of federal antidiscrimination law.
This course presents a survey of the various schools of legal philosophical thought, with an emphasis on exploring how these intellectual "value systems" necessarily inform judges' decisions, and how they might therefore influence one's choice of legal argument in a given case. The course will include readings from formalism, legal positivism, process theory, legal realism, law and economics, critical legal studies, feminist legal theory, and critical race theory, among others.
regulate bank activities; formation and regulation of bank holding companies; bank mergers and acquisitions; branch banking; antitrust considerations; trust operations conducted by banks; impact of securities legislation on bank loans and bank financing; the FDIC and its impact on a failing bank.
Intellectual Property Transactions deals with legal problems in the commercialization of intellectual property. It covers, among other things, license, confidentiality agreements, and intellectual property financing.
Interdisciplinary, topical or experimental course in introductory biology. Subtitle required. Prerequisites: Determined by Instructor May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours under different subtitles. Course format: variable - Lecture and/or laboratory and/or recitation and/or seminar