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Undergraduate Course: Persuasion: rhetoric and religion (THET10048)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Divinity CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis study of the persuasive arts of religious rhetoric charts a trajectory from secular classical Greece, through the Abrahamic faiths and the use of rhetoric in teaching and proclamation, to quasi-religious forms in modern political discourse and the iconography of late capitalist consumerism. The course offers students an opportunity to undertake the study of rhetoric from a variety of theological and sociological perspectives.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of this course, a student will have:
(1) understood some of the key dimensions of rhetoric in religious contexts;
(2) understood the place of argument, image and narrative in religious discourse;
(3) engaged critically with sermon practice in three Abrahamic faiths;
(4) written an essay on an aspect of communication studied in the course, engaging with both primary and relevant secondary literature;
(5) presented in the seminar and participated in constructive discussion and debate with other seminar members in a respectful manner;
(6) considered the implications of communication theology for scholarship in rhetoric, homiletics and ethics of communication.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsRhetoric, homiletics, hermeneutics
Contacts
Course organiserDr Cecelia Clegg
Tel: (0131 6)50 8943
Email: C.Clegg@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Paula Kruyff
Tel: (0131 6)50 2543
Email: Paula.Kruyff@ed.ac.uk
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