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Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2020
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FWIS 156 001 (CRN: 23498)
SPEECH AND COMM IN HOMER
Long Title: SPEECH AND COMMUNICATION IN HOMER
Department: First-Year Writing Intensive
Instructor: Mackie, Hilary
Meeting: 2:30PM - 3:45PM TR (13-JAN-2020 - 24-APR-2020)
Part of Term: First Year Writing
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 3
Enrollment data as of: 26-APR-2025 10:22PM
Final Exam: No Final Exam
Final Exam Time:
5-MAY-2020
9:00AM - 12:00PM T
Description: Introduces students to oral tradition, oral performance, oral poetics, and the Homeric poems. We will read the Iliad and Odyssey closely, focusing on the speeches, songs, and stories performed by characters, and considering what those performances suggest about the constructive and destructive use of speech in human relationships and societies.