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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Working with a school or non-profit community organization liaison, students will develop, plan, coordinate, and carry out a major event for the designated organization. Examples of past events include planning and running the Northwest Communication Association Conference, a charity golf tournament for Victim/Offender Restitution Program of Dallas, Ore., and a dance for the Boys and Girls Club of Albany. Assignments include readings, lectures, group work, and extensive outside of class work tailored to the organization's needs and the planned event. Students will turn in a portfolio at the end of the term that demonstrates tasks they have accomplished.
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Analysis and evaluation of speeches in their social settings; critical studies of invention, arrangement and style.
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An examination of the relationship between communication and politics and how their interaction affects American society. Emphasis is on the communication of political issues, the ways in which social institutions help create, advance, and reinforce public opinion and the political systems. Topics may include Presidential rhetoric, political debates, local and national campaigns, and media/politics interactions.
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The study of communication processes that occur within the context of organizational life. Traditional and contemporary theories of organization are presented and assessed from a communication perspective. Practical, real life examples of daily organizational life are considered.
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Approaches to changing audience attitudes, beliefs, behaviors and/or values strongly grounded in communication ethics and social scientific research, leading to message preparation and analysis.
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Uses of verbal and visual language in the popular media-motion pictures, television, radio, newspapers, and magazines-both by direct study and analysis of the various media and by the study of the relevant scholarship and criticism.
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Survey of major rhetorical ideas, theories, and figures from the classical period to the present. Emphasis on the ways in which rhetoric was understood and used in western historical contexts.
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Examination of the works of the major speakers of the women's movement from the 18th century to the present.
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Survey of several major U.S. speakers and speeches since the mid-twentieth century in their historical contexts. Analysis and evaluation of the rhetorical features of contemporary oratory grounded in critical and theoretical approaches to speaker, audience, text, and context.
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In-depth examination of everyday relational communication issues as behavioral outcomes of theoretically explained communication behaviors, from relationship initiation to relationship termination, including factors such as attraction, relational development and maintenance, critical relational events, and other topics in relational communication.
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