ENGL 104Rhetoric in Popular Culture

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• Really cool course. It involves a lot of literary analysis within the rhetoric techniques employed by artists' in their works within contemporary society's pop-culture. From my experience, we watched a lot of current-day examples of pop-culture (ranging from Game of Thrones to various music videos from current artists), and we try to dissect how those works influence the general population.
  The course, the way it was taught with my professor, had no mid-term, but it did have 2 essays, a major presentation, and a final exam.

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• This class was honestly such a joke. It wasn't organized very well and it seemed like we didn't actually talk about pop culture all that much. It was an easy grade but I found the course kind of pointless.

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• Took this course w Dr. Heather Love - she's super into all of the topics and tries to get the class to interact and stuff so it's a nice vibe in class & she's a good prof. It was interesting and fun whether you're really into rhetoric / english or not, bc you cover a lot of pop culture stuff through a rhetorical lens, like Beyonce's albums, Marvel stuff, memes, political stuff, and for two projects you get to pitch your own pop culture rhetoric idea which is great to have that autonomy. If you read enough of the first month's materials to understand rhetoric & then just do the assigned work you'll be good.

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• Just had this course taught by Heather Love who did an amazing job at structuring this course in a way that wasn't too work-heavy. If you're planning on taking this course with Dr. Love, I would highy suggest going for it as she's an amazing professor who is extremely kind and understanding towards her students and teaches really well. She also made the course material relevant to us by asking us what sort of popular culture themes/topics that we wanted to cover (and she actually incorporated them into the course).
  In terms of workload, I would say it's manageable and somewhat easy. Just stay consistent in coming to class since participation matters and it will benefit you in the long run…

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• Had this course with Heather Love (first time teaching this course). Was structured amazingly - a couple of assignments, one group presentation and a final essay. She made this course very fun and engaging. Does require some amount of work each week, but it's manageable. 10/10 reccomend!

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