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	Podcast:		Exam
	Episode:		Exam - English Class At University Of Missouri Examines Rhetoric Through Race
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2016-09-22 15:37:39
	Description:		There’s a class at the University of Missouri that everyone has to take. It’s called Exposition and Argument, but students and teachers usually strip it down to its “numerical name:” English 1000. Donna Strickland, Director of Rhetoric and Composition, says that class is an environment that isn’t found many other places on campus. “I mean these small classes where people can have these intimate conversations,” Strickland said. Students come across the country and enroll in this introductory course, a course that is offered on many campuses. Except, this campus is in Columbia, just two hours away from Ferguson, where a police shooting ignited the Black Lives Matter movement. And the University of Missouri is a campus that made national news last year with protests over racism. “I think that talking about race matters. “It’s not that, I don’t think we always have to focus our English 1000 courses around race, but it just seemed in that particular moment for that be a possibility,”
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