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Articulation and course topics
(legend: L = lecture; T = tutorial)

1. Presentation of the course - L / T opening exercise
2. The rediscovery of rhetoric in the middle of the 20th century. The two lines: North American and European - The reasons for Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca L
3. Inventio: definition, parts, functions L
4. Dispositio: definition, parts, functions L
5. Elocutio: definition, parts, functions L
6. Actio and memory L
7. Steve Jobs, Greeting Address to Stanford: analysis and discussion with the students. Application of the 'grid' of inventio and dispositio T
8. Cicero, Pro Milone - Introduction; the legitimate private defense L
9. Cicero, Pro Milone - Reading and commentary: the defense of the State L
10. 'Textual' analysis of an audiovisual document T
11. Quintilian - status rationalis: coniectura L
12. Quintilian - status rationalis: definitio and qualitas L
13. Legal status and witness testimony - Illustration and examples of verba-voluntas and ratiocinatio; Quintilian advice for questioning witnesses
14. Lecturer lecturer with experience in communication matters L
15. 'Textual' analysis: the monologue of Marco Antonio in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (text + video) T
16. Intervention by a lawyer on the subject of the 'construction' of the forensic arguments L
17. The word to the students (the number of dedicated lessons depends on the number of attending students) T
18. The word to the students (the number of dedicated lessons depends on the number of attending students) T
19. The word to the students (the number of dedicated lessons depends on the number of attending students) T
20. Return to students of the evaluation of their interventions - joint debate L