3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)Details historical beginnings from preplatonics, Sophists, Plato, Aristotle to early work of K. Burke (c. 1940). Attention is given to primary-secondary works, including historiographical principles of rhetorics, “the sister arts” (ut pictura poesis, ecphrasis), and techne (as human faculty and mechanical technology). Preq: RCID major or consent of instructor.
