Since ancient Greece, rhetoric, the "art of persuasion," has been concerned withmaking.Discussions oftechne,a Greek word that loosely translates to "craft," are prominent in the works of Aristotle, Plato, and others. This course engages with the history, theory, and production of DIY (Do It Yourself), multimodal, and craft rhetorics as a way to better understand public rhetorical actions connected to social activist movements, including feminist, environmentalist, anti-capitalist, anti-war, and anti-racist movements. Students will learn to define and practice composition as a process and practice that involves more than the production of static words on a page. This project-based course requires students to closely examine the rhetorical significance of various writing tools, materials, and techniques and gain hands-on practice with multiple compositional materials, from paper to fabric, pencil to pixels.
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