AP/MODR1770 6.0 D: Techniques of Persuasion
Offered by: MODR
Session
Fall 2019
Term
Y
Format
LECT
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
This is a skills-based course focusing on critical thinking, persuasive writing, and strategic argumentation. Examples are drawn from various forms of persuasion including advertising, propaganda and political argument. Course credit exclusions: AP/MODR 1730 6.00, AP/MODR 1760 6.00. Note: This is an approved LA&PS General Education course: Humanities OR Social Science.
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Philip MacEwen
Office Location: MC231
Phone Number: (416) 736-2100 Ext. 77483
Office Hours: TBA
This course introduces students to a variety of critical skills that are essential to every professional career. They include logical analysis, language analysis, conceptual analysis, fallacy analysis, and writing analysis.
1) Jean Saindon and Peter John Krek, Critical Thinking: Argument and Argumentation,” 2nd ed., Toronto: Nelson, 2014, ISBN 978-0-17-666100-7;
2) Course Kit, Techniques of Persuasion, MODR 1770D/R
three tests, two essays, and a final exam. All assignments are worth 20% of the final grade. Students get the higher grade of tests 1 and 2, provided they complete both.
The course is divided into three sections: 1) reasoning, logic, language, and the fallacies, 2 conceptual analysis, and 3) critical thinking, reading, and writing about techniques of persuasion.
To help students identify, understand, and critique the four major techniques of persuasion: advertising, propaganda, ideology, and argument.
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