Welcome to the website for English 7665: Ethos & Critical Agency. As a “Special Topics Seminar” in the graduate curriculum of the English department at East Carolina University, this course functions to augment core work in Rhetoric and Composition. Students should expect an advanced course, one which moves quickly beyond the basics of rhetorical knowledge or inquiry and into an systematic and complex study of a particular issue in rhetoric.
Specifically, this course will investigate ethos (basically, authorial credibility), looking initially at the ways that ethos was constructed in ancient Greece and Rome and then moving quickly to twentieth century interpretations of ethos.
Our goal is to work together on some fairly complex rhetorical and theoretical texts in order to understand how “authority” and “credibility” work in our current time.
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