RHET 210 — Epistemic Self-Defense
Rhetoric & Epistemics · 4 units · Required core — everyone takes it
The Two Registers
- Catalog register: Logic, statistical reasoning, cognitive bias, media literacy.
- Teaching frame: Propaganda, information warfare, and the engineered feed — how to know what’s true when the environment is adversarial.
Outcomes Served
- Judgment
- Command of Intelligence
What This Course Is About
Your information environment is built by people who want things from you. Logic, statistics, bias, and propaganda analysis — the martial art of knowing what’s true.
The Made Thing
A forensic teardown of a real piece of persuasion — its claims, techniques, and the truth of the matter, documented.
The Daily Path
One session per course day — each one designed to look easy and pull you in. This course is at syllabus stage — the daily path is not yet written, so it is not yet live.
- Day 01 — to be written
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- Day 15 — to be written
Every course here is built to one standard: it ends in a made thing you can show, and it ships day by day.