COMM 3460 - Critical and Rhetorical Analysis

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Communication

Description:

For Communication Studies majors, and open to all students interested in improving their critical evaluation of public communication. Designed to enable students to be responsible consumers of public messages through introduction of the criticism of communication messages and media. Students will be introduced to the analysis of public address advertising, television, film, and literature as sites for critique. Introduces students to a range of methodological approaches to analyzing messages in linguistic and critical traditions. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Describe the relationship between canonical and critical modes of rhetorical inquiry. 2. Describe and analyze the relationship between rhetorical texts and their respective socio-political and socio-cultural contexts. 3. Synthesize and draw connections between critical, rhetorical forms of inquiry. 4. Identify and apply modes of critical, rhetorical criticism to chosen artifact/phenomenon. 5. Develop critical thinking skills. SP

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

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