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Rhetoric And Argument: (Subtitle Required)

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.

Public Advocacy: (Subt Req)

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.

Professional Practices In Photography

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.

Jurisprudence

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.

Banking Law

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.

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