Workshop 20: Designing and Delivering Rhetorical Education

Workshop Leaders: Kris Ratcliffe and Kyle Jensen

Workshop Leaders:

Kris Ratcliffe and Kyle Jensen 

This workshop prepares new and experienced instructors to design and teach rhetoric-focused program curricula and individual courses at all levels of post-secondary education. Specifically, we will discuss how rhetorical concepts and tactics can generate outcome-driven curricula that yield inquiry-driven assignments and projects. In order to provide adequate background for our approach, the workshop will begin with a brief overview of how we define rhetorical education. Then, using rhetorical listening as an organizing rhetorical concept, we will model how scholars can develop effective tactics, curricula, assignments/projects, and assessments that help students connect rhetorical theory to practice. At the end of the workshop, attendees will have created a two-week curriculum plan (to share), based on a rhetorical concept of their choosing, that explains how each component of the instructional sequence fits together to realize the listed outcomes and answer the questions that drive the course. 

Contact Information:

Kris Ratcliffe: Krista.Ratcliffe@asu.edu
Kyle Jensen: Kyle.Jensen@unt.edu