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Examines the rhetoric of speech drawing on theorists from Plato to Havelock to Ong, and considers implications of "great leap models" that present orality and literacy on a continuum. This course considers a range of oral practices from informal to formal, and from spontaneous to research-based and examines a range of rhetorical modes: dialogue, storytelling, "street-talk," reporting, debate and presentational address. Significant course time will be devoted to students’ oral performance, both individual and team-based. [24L]