Writing & Rhetoric 2: Unruly Bodies: Gesturing Toward a New Rhetorics of Body Language

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This course explores the place of the body in rhetoric, and how the presence, form and performance of a body and gesture impacts the shape of our arguments. We'll study non-normative forms of communication asking, how do we understand bodies that deviate from cultural conventions of communication? A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2lfa For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.