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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Presents a theoretical and practical examination of the differences in communication between men and women in a variety of contexts. Integrates into this analysis how media affect our understanding of gender roles.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to the culture of another country and the patterns of communication that characterize the interactions among its people. This course is designated for students engaged in study abroad through the Dialogue of Civilizations program.
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4.00 Credits
Reviews the foundations of the field of speech and communication in ancient Greece and Rome. Topics include Aristotle's ideas about persuasion, the sophistic tradition, the rhetorical theories of Cicero and Quintilian, and famous speeches of the golden age of Greece and Rome.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces the principles and skills of effective argument. Topics include the process of advocacy, how to develop an argument through reasoning, the psychology of argument, and motivational techniques of argumentation. Combines theory and practice in argument through individual presentations and team debates.
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4.00 Credits
Provides training in developing clear and articulate speech. Topics include the physiology of the vocal mechanism, voice projection and variety, articulation and pronunciation, and appropriate speech. Trains students through lectures, drills, and exercises.
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4.00 Credits
Overviews key conceptual approaches that have developed for the study of the media. Investigates theories that address the role of media in culture and focuses on how cultural studies can inform our reading of both media and culture.
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4.00 Credits
Introduces students to critical television studies. Examines television as a meaning-producing medium by focusing upon its images and representations as they have shifted from the inception of television to the present. Students analyze its uses of image, music, graphics, editing, sound, narrative and nonnarrative structure, and genres. Allows students to use various critical methods in their analysis of television: semiotics, narrative, genre, feminist, reader response, ideological, and cultural studies. Consideration is placed upon changes in the industry and viewing practices as a result of cable, satellite, and Internet technologies.
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4.00 Credits
Analyzes the social forces, technological advances, and cultural influences that have contributed to the development of U.S. popular music, from early Tin Pan Alley to the present. Popular music is treated as a facet of commercial mass culture, as a profoundly influential communicative medium, and as an indicator and amplifier of broader social changes.
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4.00 Credits
Offers a critical approach to television and society by approaching television as an institution, industry, and cultural form. Course readings use television to analyze cultural and social issues as well as addressing the political and social consequences of television in a historical and contemporary context. Therefore, rather than analyzing television programs as texts, television is used to address a range of topics that may include identity, globalization, citizenship, neoliberalism, interactivity, nationalism, and technology.
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4.00 Credits
Covers global dynamics of media and media systems. Specifically seeks to introduce students to the nuances of globalization and cultural performance through media structures. Introduces a wide variety of topics that fall in the intersection between globalization and media and the ways in which they operate socially and culturally. The course focuses broadly on understanding-in both theoretical and practical ways-how and why global media function as they do and how they contribute to knowledge formation and social justice within various cultural contexts.
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