ENG 3508 - Rhetoric of Humor: Parody, Satire, and Comedy

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021

Description: Students explore how humor persuades, considering comedic texts and performances as rhetorical. Students examine the relationship between writer and audience, the purposes of humor, and the rhetorical techniques and strategies comedic writers use. Humorous texts in a variety of genres are studied, and students also produce their own humorous texts.