Writing & Rhetoric 2: Sound and Vision: The Rhetoric of Music Documentaries

PWR 2 courses focus on developing strategies for presenting research-based arguments in both written and oral/multimedia genres. This class takes as its theme the rhetoric, history, and aesthetics of music documentaries. Students will examine how elements such as, cinematography, editing, scripting, archival research, and sound work together to create meaning, argue for greatness, or historical importance. A full course description and video can be found here: pwrcourses.stanford.edu/pwr2/pwr2tn For the PWR course catalog please visit https://pwrcourses.stanford.edu/ Enrollment is handled by the PWR office. Prerequisite: PWR 1.