Trisha Miller Academic Advisor for the College of Liberal Arts

Patricia Roberts-Miller

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Professor Emeritus — Ph.D., Rhetoric, 1987, University of California, Berkeley

Interests

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History, Theory, and Education of Public Argumentation

Biography

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If, equally theorists as diverse as Hannah Arendt, Aristotle, Wayne Booth, and Kenneth Shush have argued, rhetoric is the art that provides diverse communities the means to make decisions together in the presence of uncertainty, then how do we teach students to value such a practice, to engage in it, and to demand it, especially when in historical or cultural situations that promote violence and authoritarianism, while demonizing reason, diversity, and uncertainty? My  historical research has functioned, I hope, as a series of example studies--when does rhetoric fail to role as such an art?--while my (somewhat) theoretical work has been an endeavor to identify the strengths and weaknesses of various theories of argumentation.

My teaching goals are not peculiarly original, as they're more or less the traditional goals of a liberal arts education in a democracy: to foster skills fundamental to citizenship. Rhetoric has long claimed to teach 2 aspects of argumentation: textual analysis and textual production. That is, students acquire to read argumentative texts critically, and to produce their ain. What makes the recent "return to rhetoric" (every bit some scholars have called it) unlike from nineteenth and early on twentieth century rhetoric is that the presumption is that well-nigh texts are, in some sense, argumentative.

But, to say that students larn to read historical, scholarly, or belittling texts rhetorically is not to say that those texts are "mere" rhetoric--every bit a consequence of scholars like Wayne Booth and Kenneth Burke, rhetoric has returned to an before sense of persuasion (one that, as my colleague Jeff Walker argues, was the conventional view through the classical era, albeit non shared by Plato). On topics most which experts disagree, the solution is not to get different experts, only to learn to deliberate in the midst of doubtfulness, and, I hope, that is what rhetoric teaches.

Courses

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E 387R • History Of Rhetoric

35735 • Spring 2020
Meets TTH two:00PM-3:30PM PAR 214

RHE 330D • History Of Public Argument

42905 • Leap 2020
Meets TTH iii:30PM-5:00PM PAR 306
Eastward Wr

RHE 330D • Rhetoric Of Racism

42610 • Fall 2019
Meets MWF xi:00AM-12:00PM PAR 304
E Wr

RHE 330D • Rhetoric And Hitler

43795 • Fall 2018
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 208
GC Wr

RHE 321 • Principles Of Rhetoric

43685 • Spring 2018
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 103
Wr

RHE 330D • Rhetoric And Hitler

43734 • Spring 2018
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM BEN 1.122
Wr

RHE 330D • Rhetoric Of Racism

44160 • Autumn 2017
Meets MWF eleven:00AM-12:00PM PAR 208
CD E Wr

E 387M • Rhetoric And Writing Study

35700 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM CAL 419

RHE 330D • History Of Public Argument

44130 • Fall 2016
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 208
East Wr

RHE 330D • Deliberating War

43350 • Leap 2016
Meets MWF x:00AM-11:00AM PAR 206
E Wr

RHE 330D • Rhetoric Of Racism

43340 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH nine:30AM-11:00AM UTC iv.112
CD E Wr

E 387M • Rhe/Wrt: Comp In 20th-21st Cen

35055 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM CBA 4.338

RHE 321 • Principles Of Rhetoric

44745 • Fall 2014
Meets MWF 10:00AM-xi:00AM PAR 306
Wr C2

RHE 330D • History Of Public Argument

45140 • Spring 2014
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM PAR 206
Due east Wr

RHE 330E • Demagoguery

45160 • Spring 2014
Meets MWF eleven:00AM-12:00PM PAR 206
Wr

RHE 321 • Principles Of Rhetoric

44810 • Fall 2013
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 304
Wr C2

RHE 330D • Deliberating War

44860 • Autumn 2013
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM PAR 301
Eastward

RHE 330D • Rhetoric Of Racism

44420 • Bound 2013
Meets MWF x:00AM-11:00AM PAR 203
Wr

RHE 330E • Demagoguery

44440 • Jump 2013
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 203
Wr

RHE 321 • Principles Of Rhetoric

44210 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 101
Wr C2

RHE 330E • Propaganda

44255 • Autumn 2012
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM PAR 308
Wr

RHE 330D • Deliberating State of war

44225 • Bound 2012
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM PAR 203
East

UGS 303 • Corruption Of Sci: Pub Pol Debates

63575-63585 • Spring 2012
Meets MW 10:00AM-11:00AM PAR 201

The Signature Course (UGS 302 and 303) introduces first-year students to the university'due south academic community through the exploration of new interests. The Signature Form is your opportunity to engage in higher-level thinking and learning.

RHE 321 • Principles Of Rhetoric

44030 • Autumn 2011
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MEZ ane.202
Wr C2

RHE 330E • Demagoguery

44083 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MEZ one.120
Wr

RHE 321 • Principles Of Rhetoric

44750 • Leap 2011
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 208
Wr C2

RHE 330D • Deliberating War

44800 • Spring 2011
Meets TTH xi:00AM-12:30PM PAR 203
E

RHE 321 • Principles Of Rhetoric

44075 • Fall 2010
Meets MWF x:00AM-xi:00AM PAR 208
Wr C2

RHE 330D • Deliberating War

44120 • Autumn 2010
Meets MWF eleven:00AM-12:00PM PAR 206
Wr

RHE 309S • Crit Read & Persuasive Writ-Due west

44745 • Spring 2007
Meets MWF x:00AM-eleven:00AM MEZ 1.204
C1

RHE 306 • Rhetoric And Composition

43680 • Jump 2006
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM PAR 310
C1

This course is grounded in the rhetorical analysis of "controversies," broadly divers. Information technology is divided into four units, each 1 requiring some sort of outside research. The get-go two units are devoted to rhetorical analysis; they are mostly descriptive and allow students to become familiar with what is being said and how. The third and fourth units are devoted to advocacy; having become familiar with the controversy, students at present take a position within it and produce an informed statement for that position.

RHE 306 • Rhetoric And Limerick

40955 • Jump 2002
Meets TTH 2:00PM-iii:30PM CMA A3.108
C1

This form is grounded in the rhetorical analysis of "controversies," broadly defined. It is divided into four units, each ane requiring some sort of outside research. The beginning 2 units are devoted to rhetorical analysis; they are mostly descriptive and allow students to become familiar with what is beingness said and how. The tertiary and fourth units are devoted to advocacy; having go familiar with the controversy, students now take a position within information technology and produce an informed statement for that position.

RHE 360M • Rhet/Comp For H S Eng Tchrs-W

41210 • Spring 2002
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM BEN 202
C2

RHE 360M • Rhet/Comp For H S Eng Tchrs-West

41915 • Autumn 2000
Meets MWF xi:00AM-12:00PM PAR 1
C2

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