Spring 2027

Rhetoric of the Cold War

Examines the Cold War (1945-1991) from a rhetorical perspective, tracing how key texts, orators, and foreign policy themes shaped the 'New Cold War.'

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Identify key rhetorical moments in Cold War discourse.

  • Assess and analyze key terms, concepts, theories, and themes rhetoricians and historians use to examine the Cold War.

  • Apply these critical and theoretical lenses to historical and contemporary discourse and public culture

  • Articulate the relationship between rhetoric and history.

  • Research and write a rhetorical analysis of text/object related to the themes of the course.

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Examine the Cold War from a rhetorical perspective. Consider key texts, orators, movements, and foreign policy themes that have come to define the Cold War (1945-1991). Trace how these rhetorical strategies laid the groundwork for the contemporary moment, the "New Cold War."

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Topics

  • Key texts, orators, movements, and foreign policy themes of the Cold War
  • Rhetorical strategies and the 'New Cold War'
  • Relationship between rhetoric and history

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  • Identifying key rhetorical moments in historical discourse
  • Assessing and analyzing rhetorical theories and historical themes
  • Applying critical and theoretical lenses to public culture
  • Articulating the relationship between rhetoric and history
  • Researching and writing rhetorical analyses

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