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Thomas W. Benson
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Rhetoric
Penn State University

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Undergraduate Courses
CAS 415 Rhetoric of Film -- Alfred Hitchcock and the Critics: The Rhetoric of the Thriller as Art, Entertainment, and Social Text	Spring 2000 announcement \| syllabus Spring 2001 announcement \| syllabus Spring 2002 syllabus Fall 2002 syllabus \| Angela Traver Fall 2003 syllabus Fall 2004 syllabus Fall 2006
Speech Communication 100 - Honors Effective Speech	Spring 2000
SpCom 412 Speech Criticism	Spring 2000
SpCom 475 Studies in Public Persuasion: Abolition, Suffrage, and Civil Rights	Fall 1999
CAS 475 Studies in Public Address: American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era: 1932-1945	Spring 2004 (syllabus) Spring 2005 Spring 2007

Graduate Seminars
CAS 500 Seminar in History of Public Address--The Rhetoric of the American Presidency	Fall 2004 Fall 2006
503 Rhetorical Criticism	Spring 1997 Spring 1998 Fall 1999 Fall 2001 announcement \| syllabus Fall 2003 syllabus Spring 2006

515 The Rhetoric of Narrative Film	Fall 1997 Fall 1999 Spring 2001 announcement \| syllabus Fall 2002 announcement \| syllabus
SpCom 530 Politics and Media	Fall 1996
SpCom 597C	Rhetoric of the American Presidency - Spring 2002 announcement \| syllabus