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2021-2022 UMaine Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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CMJ 401 - Speech, Space, Event: Critical Applications


Introduction to the subject of criticism from a rhetorical perspective. Examines methods of critical reading, criticism of several kinds of texts, including speeches, social spaces, and events, and how texts are made meaningful and why. Involves application of evaluative criteria such as aesthetics, truth, effects and especially ethics.

General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Writing Intensive

Prerequisites: Junior standing.

Course Typically Offered: Variable

Credits: 3