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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CM - 205. The study of behavior, attitude formation and change, and the principles of persuasion. Offered every Spring.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CM - 204. The study of language components such as phonetics, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in relation to the communication process. Examines sociolinguistics, roles in prejudice, differences in language use in functional communication skills. Offered every Spring.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CM - 204 or permission of instructor. This seminar looks cross-culturally at the issue of justice and social change in various communicative environments - from courtrooms to non-governmental organizations, to the media and international assemblies. The course will explore the communicative practices involved in legal proceedings, human rights, conflict resolution, and the struggle for social justice and change. Using a format that combines lectures, discussions, and student's service-learning projects, we will tackle issues such as the communicative nature of conflict; the unequal access to justice and other social resources; the debate over universal vs. relativistic human rights; the cultural and communicative practices involved in conflict and its resolution; the link between power and communication.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CM - 204. This course explores how our experience of communication is shaped by the physical realities of communication media: transportation routes, cable lines, switchboards, relay stations, GPS and communication satellites, computer networks, cellular towers, and the fiber optic layout of the postmetropolis. Such media generate a communicative environment, or infosphere, that empowers a growing number of people with the electronic capabilities to produce and disseminate communication all other the world. In this class we will use contemporary communicative theories to study how geography and communication interact.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CM - 204 or permission of instructor. Students in this seminar will explore the communicative practices of various organizations concerned with social justice. Readings from cultural and communication theory will provide the conceptual background for their fieldwork.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CM - 205. Communication and Aging examines the construction of what it means to age and be "old", spedifically, the communication processes inherent in this phenomenon, the impact of aging on human relationship/communication, and communication in contexts involving and impacting older adults.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced course designed to provide an understanding of the communication processes in health-related interaction. Specifically, the curriculum addresses the types of health-related messages produced, their pragmatic goal, the known effectiveness of these messages, and the theoretical and methodological concerns when examining messages used in health-related interaction in a medical context.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced course designed to examine the attitudes and perceptions of and toward persons with disabilities, how communication creates and perpetuates an inaccurate and unjust depiction of disabled persons, the communicative behaviors of persons who are disabled and the non-disabled during their interaction, and how theories of communication and social justice can illuminate how this socially interactive inequity may be remedied.
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4.00 Credits
Prerequisite: CM - 202. This course explores the history of the United States from the perspective of the rhetoric that shaped historical events. It examines how history has been made and re-made rhetorically. The course analyzes radical social movements and rhetorics of dissent; struggles to expand the public sphere and citizenship rights; the uses of cultural memory; and symbolic constructions of 'America'.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
A faculty supervised program of reading and study in communication. May be repeated for credit. Requires written permission of instructor, chair, and dean. Offered every semester.
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