2012-2013 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
ENG 392 - Language and Power
Examines language as a means of achieving personal and cultural freedom and as a tool for controlling and oppressing others. Students study various theories of language use and explore the tension between our right to use language freely and our need to protect ourselves from the way others use language. Part of Freedom and Social Control theme. Offered winter semester. Prerequisite: WRT 150.
Credits: 3