<p>Can it be satisfied with an AP test? If so, which one?</p>
<p>nope. AC is a whole different requirement that must be fulfilled by an AC course here. If you're into music, I highly recommend Music 26AC, Music in American Cultures - it's one of the best courses that I've taken so far.</p>
<p>Any prof recommendations for it, tastyb33f?</p>
<p>Well I had Guilbault in the fall and I believe she's teaching it again Fall 06...she's a pretty good prof. She talks extremely fast, but is very organized. She has an awesome French accent that I very much enjoyed. Her exams aren't too hard either - short answer, identification, essay, all the usual stuff. Every week she assigned reading and also certain songs to listen to that she put on MUSILAN, the music reserve archives. So...it was an okay amount of work, but I'd recommend her. Some people don't like her because of her incredibly fast lecture pace, but what do I know, I've only been here for a year.</p>
<p>are there seminar coursese that satisfy AC Requriement?</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>stupid 10 char.</p>
<p>Yeah, not yet, anyway.</p>
<p>must we satisfy this reuqiement in frshmen year? Im already gonna take 13-14 units in first semester without the AC</p>
<p>No, anytime. many hold it off until after freshmen year, some satisfy it in their last semester here.</p>
<p>history 7b also satisfies it. i'd reccomend taking litwack if hes teaching it next semester</p>
<p>Linguistic 155AC - a popular AC class for engineers</p>
<p>satisfies breadth + AC + upp div requirement. Bingo.</p>
<p>Subject matter?</p>
<p>how about like an english class that also fulfills my second half of Reading and Composition requreiment, along with the AC? Not linguistics, or rhetoric, but a real English class? Are there any courses like that?</p>
<p>It's unlikely one exists, but check into it.</p>
<p>What's wrong with rhetoric, by the way?</p>
<p>well, um i want to take english literature, coz its probably more writing-intensive right? Is rhetoric like the same?</p>
<p>We're talking reading and comp requirement, yes? If so, intensity depends on many factors. There are college requirements for each reading and comp class, but then each department has its own requirements. Rhetoric will be about the same as English and Comp Lit as my French class as my friend's German class, but it mostly depends on the prof/teacher. English, rhetoric, and comp lit are the three most popular. If a rhetoric class sounds interesting to you, take it, don't take it if it doesn't- same with English. I think that the English 45 series is more writing intensive than the intro rhetoric courses, but that's a different story.</p>
<p>whats the exact subject matter in rhetoric?</p>
<p>Hahaha. haha. No really, you're funny.</p>
<p>It's hard to say. Take it on a class by class basis. They say they like to close-read texts, and by texts they include, potentially, everything. It's a sort of cross between philosophy and English. They like films, and politics. It's basically continental philosophy, more accurately critical theory. They read a lot of Nietzsche and Foucault, as well as Freud and Marx, amongst others. The R1A and R1B classes often have a bit of Plato and lots of novels. Depends on the prof. But again, take everything on a course by course basis.</p>
<p>Rhetoric goes beyond the text; almost anything can be read rhetorically. Images, text, music, films are some of the subjects a rhetor may encounter. The Rhetoric Department is interdisciplinary. Marianne Constable teaches several courses examining legal discourse. Judith Butler takes a look at feminism. Kaja Silverman takes on subjects such as art, Marx, feminism, Franz Fanon, films, etc. </p>
<p>I recommend taking a look at <a href="http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu%5B/url%5D">http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu</a> The website is not loading up right now, but usually it's up.</p>
<p>(BTW, I'm a rhetoric major and I love it!)</p>
<p>DRab: Don't let Coffeen hear you say that it's a cross between philosophy and English! </p>
<p>BlueElmos: Here's an excerpt from Prof. Daniel Coffeen's "A Rhetorical Rhetoric."</p>
<p>"Rhetoric offers up difference as difference rather than as an untamed nuisance, secretive sameness, or endless deferral."</p>
<p>"Rhetoric is the art and logic--the practice and the theory--of how things go, things of all sorts--human, textual, animal, conceptual, emotional, natural (rhetoric is nomadic; it can make its home anywhere). As different things make sense of the world differently, the rhetorician is there to make sense of the sense-making. The trick is that the way of this or that is no pre-known but emerges in the very going; borders and modes shift as circumstances shift. The rhetorician is she who heeds the specificity of circumstance, the configuration of these things here and now, the propriety of the occasion."</p>
<p>"But this rhetorician--who tends to a world on a the fly--is on the fly herself, another thing in motion, another part of the circumstantial configuration. She must heed the world as part of the world. And it is the circumstance, the spatio-temproal configuration of these particular ways of going, that determines her course of action (say an exegesis). A propriety, then, but an emergent propriety, a network forged on the go, every encounter a different occasion to heed."</p>
<p>"Rhetoric, then proffers the logics, stratagems, and tactics of difference reckoning difference...another way to say it is that rhetoric is the theory and practice of reading a world in motion while in motion."</p>
<p>Haha</p>
<p>Oh, Coffeen. </p>
<p>I was talking to Dale Carrico and he made a point that we should keep our audiences in mind. That's why I said it. The average person here will hear "It's basically critical theory" as "Blah blah blah."</p>