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3.00 Credits
As we enter the third millennium, high-speed travel, satellites, the Internet, and the globalized economy have brought more people from different backgrounds into more frequent contact with each other than at any other time in human history. Conflicts, misunderstandings and even wars have been the result, along with greater tolerance of difference, and the creation of ever-larger webs of corporate and governmental cooperation. Explores communication across the divides of international geography, as well as communication within societies which divide themselves by race, class, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and age.
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Through printed texts and film, radio and television broadcasting, and electronic information networks, mass communication plays a central and worldwide role in distributing both information and ideas. Focusing primarily on electronic and print media, surveys the major theoretical perspectives on three aspects of mass communication: the means of production, the form and content of mass media messages, and the reception and use of those messages by audiences.
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The study of persuasion, or rhetoric, began in a society with no lawyers, ancient Greece. Much has changed since then, including the shift from face-to-face persuasion and negotiation, to the introduction of writing and then mass media, and with it, new forms of persuasion including advertisement. Covers all these forms, and topics such as the relation between truth and rhetoric, between form and content, and the psychology of persuasion. Students may analyze persuasive strategies used in advertising, literature, political/legal discourse, and science and technology.
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3.00 Credits
In the workplace, schools, and social settings, people from increasingly different backgrounds find themselves in teams of groups, expected to work together productively to achieve common goals. However, it is very often the case that each person on a team may have a different set of expectations, values, and preferred ways for achieving those goals. When these issues are not addressed by teams, conflict, withdrawal and dissatisfaction can result. Not only are tasks not accomplished. Feeling alienated by or from the group may undermine future efforts at working together as well. This class explores the dynamics of small group communication, to identify barriers and develop corrective techniques to address communication conflicts in small groups arising from participant diversity.
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Visual elements can communicate persuasively a given message, emotion, or feeling to a targeted audience. Focuses on the cumulative effect of typography, color, photographic images and layout. Students also examine the interaction of the visual image with the written copy and their combined effect on the message. While this course focuses on print media, students are encouraged, where applicable, to generalize from the print medium to visual images in the electronic media.
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3.00 Credits
Languages are not simply collections of words, but complex structures made up of the way sounds are combined in speech, the different ways that words can be formed to serve different purposes in communicating, and the rules for putting words together in sentences. Speakers do not simply repeat standard phrases ¡ª they create entirely new statements, virtually without thinking. Investigates this system of language and learn what makes language comprehensible. Deals with language in general, but focuses on English and with many problems of practical grammar and usage that arise in speech and writing.
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Prerequisite(s): Expository Writing I Most of us take for granted our ability to speak, read and write. But many people struggle, especially when they must articulate their ideas in a second language or when their ways of using language are designated as sub-standard. This course provides historical, theoretical, and practical foundations for addressing controversial issues related to language and literacy in the United States and for examining how conceptions of language and literacy are shaped by social, cultural, political, and economic factors that change over time and serve particular interests. Through scholarly and news articles, fiction and poetry, film and video-we identify misconceptions about language and literacy and re-examine these claims in light of actual language and literacy practices in a variety of cultures and contexts, including the workplace. Students will explore the practical implications of this analysis, with reference to their involvement as ESOL tutors in a Service-Learning project.
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3.00 Credits
Explores a special topic, theorist, or theme in language studies and communication. ( Allows repetition for credit.)
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3.00 Credits
Students learn to research issues in the field of communication, concentrating on the tools used in applied and basic communication research, with special attention given to developing research questions and objectives. The course explores a variety of research methodologies, including surveys, interviews, computerized literature searches, experimental designs, and textual analyzes. Students design and implement their own research projects and report the results.
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3.00 Credits
Students select, in consultation with the departmental adviser, a topic related to communication or literary studies. They undertake both bibliographical and field research, as appropriate and prepare a substantial documented report.
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