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Carey Applegate | Fall 2013 | M 11:00-12:50 & TWTh 11:00-11:50 
FYE Section/Integrated Learning Section FYE Mentor: Stephanie
Tinberg  Imagine that you are getting ready for a typical day of
classes. You wake up, grab a shower, get dressed, snag a bite to
eat, and dash out the door. Sometime before you arrive in class
15 minutes later, you probably also check Facebook, text a
friend, read a poster, watch a trailer for a movie that you want
to see this weekend, and interact with maybe a dozen other sites
of popular culture. In this course, we will examine the
rhetorical elements of various pop-culture texts. We will play
with understanding how those texts are shaped around audience,
purpose, etc. using rhetorical strategies that were developed
thousands of years ago. Throughout the semester, our goal is to
dig into conversations around and involving popular culture,
then to join at leas