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  • COMM 401: Special Topics Seminar

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    These seminar courses focus intensively upon a particular aspect of communication. Recent examples include Visual Culture and Media and Cultural Policy.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 402: Language,Identity and Politics:Discourse and the Public Sphere

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    This course examines the role of language and discourse in constructing, maintaining and transforming identities, publics and politics in late 20th century democracies. Throughout, we will consider the relationship between language use and unequal relations of power. We will begin with an introduction to discourse studies and explore discourse as symbolic power, social practice and ideology. Next, we will examine the role of discourse in constructing and maintaining identities and communities, including those of sublatern and marginalized publics. Finally, we will examine and critique the role of discourse in public sphere(s) from Afrocentric, feminist and queer perspectives.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 403: Culture and Communication

    3.00 Credits
    Denison University

    This seminar takes a historical and critical approach to understand the role communication plays in creating various cultural experiences. Major theories on culture and race are examined. Topics include: How can we best understand and study the construct "culture?" What does "American culture" mean within a pluralistic and diverse society? How are different cultural voices created, heard or erased? How is "America" constructed from international scholars' perspectives? 4
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  • COMM 404: Media and the Presidency

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    This course examines the relationship between the media and the American presidency from both a historical and contemporary perspective. The seminar focuses on the historical dynamics of the relationship, the role of institutional factors in White House coverage, the influence of presidential press coverage on public perception of the presidency, and the influence of the media on presidential election campaigns. Resources and texts represent a diversity of views among scholars, journalists and presidential administration personnel.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 406: Rhetoric and Social Movements

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    This course focuses on the historical rhetorics of discontent and transformation. Students will examine the characteristics and functions of persuasive discourse produced by social movements; the ways in which symbolic action sought to shape perceptions of concrete realities. Of particular interest will be the intersection of cultural context, biography, and creative rhetorical strategy.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 408: Critical Perspectives in Communication

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    This course is designed to acquaint students with criticism as a method for answering research questions in communication. Students will be provided with opportunities to apply various methods in the writing of essays analyzing various kinds of communication texts - both discursive and non-discursive. Public communication via public speaking, broadcast, film and print media as well as art, architecture and music will be among the texts examined over the course of the term.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 409: International Communication

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    This seminar examines the nature of information flows within and between nations, the issues raised by such communication, and the institutions involved and patterns evident in the development of and relations between nation-states. The course explores issues surrounding the constituent role that the news and entertainment media have played in the formation and maintenance of the nation-state. Topics raised will include uses of information in domestic and foreign policy, the extension of cultural imperialism, corporate invasion of privacy, and incursions upon sovereignty and national security. In examining the resolution of such issues, the course analyzes how nations' power is distributed and utilized among multiple forces.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 413: Rhetoric and the American Experience

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    This course explores the American rhetorical tradition and some of the speakers, ideas, and movements that have given it its voice and texture. We will read broadly and deeply key oratorical texts from the nineteenth century to the present and examine the scholarship that has attempted to explain these acts of symbolic influence. Our work will culminate in the drafting and thorough revising of article-length research essays. Students will be invited throughout the seminar to stretch and refine their voices as working rhetorical scholars. Class sessions will be discussiondriven and substantial preparation and participation from all students will be encouraged.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 415: Conflict and Communication

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    A study of how the use of communication during the process of social interaction creates and resolves conflict. The course will explore theories relating to the nature of conflict, strategic negotiation models, issues revolving around third party intervention, and other topics related to the current research in peace, reconcilliation, conflict and communication theory.(4 credits)
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  • COMM 451: Senior Research

    4.00 Credits
    Denison University

    Senior Research
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