Here at home we'll play in the city
Powered by the sun
Perfect weather for a streamlined world
There'll be spandex jackets
One for everyone
What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free
- Donald Fagen - IGY
We discuss course objectives, assignments, and policies. We also begin our exploration of rhetoric, relating this topic to central questions that animate this class: (1) How have notions of the ideal community historically shaped public interaction among individuals? (2) How might we employ rhetorical principles to analyze and evaluate these strategies of community building?