This course will focus on the art of rhetoric in a civic context, or how students may engage with the rhetorical tradition to focus on connections among communication, democracy, knowledge, power, and equity. Students will focus on learning the skill of deliberation, or bringing people together in conversation across difference to discover shared values, and to identify key tensions, in order to explore possible solutions to thorny public problems. Prereq: CMN 455, CMN 456, CMN 457, and two 500-level analysis courses or permission.