Dec 06, 2025  
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

ENLT 216J - (CL, EPW) Rhetoric and Poetics

3 cr.


(Prerequisites: 1st Yr. Seminar: SJLA 110X , PHIL 120 , PHIL 210 , T/RS 121 , or permission of instructor and SJLA program director.)

Students will engage rhetorical and poetic texts from Aristotle to the present to understand the historical relationships between “rhetoric” and “poetics” and the ways they have been theorized. Students will produce written and oral texts and consider the meanings of language for themselves as readers, writers, orators, and citizens.