Eloquentia Perfecta / EP: CE Overview 

Eloquentia Perfecta: Creative Expression Core courses are part of a rigorous and cohesive set of courses designed to cultivate “perfect eloquence” in writing, speaking and other forms of creative public expression in alignment with the foundational goals of the Jesuit Ratio Studiorum. These courses invite students to explore how the duties of the rhetorician (invention, arrangement, style, memory, delivery) are also crucial in acts of creation in the arts or design. Courses that satisfy the Eloquentia Perfecta: Creative Expression requirement cultivate students’ abilities to articulate persuasive positions through engagement with a creative or design process. These courses foster technical skills that allow students to communicate messages and arguments creatively in a specific linguistic, performance, design and/or artistic medium. As students practice modes of creative expression in these courses, they also advance their capacities to produce informed evaluations of arts, media, performance, or design. These courses develop students’ awareness of how creative expression is influenced by personal and cultural contexts. Students also reflect on the ways in which rhetorically fluent and technically proficient creative expression and design are vital to ethical public discourse.