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The goal of this class is for students to begin to think of television as a site culture is created and disseminated. Television will be analyzed and studied by utilizing foundational television and media theory and practices along with studying the...

Advocacy is the art of calling a public to a shared demand. Advocates should speak for causes and broaden the scope of public argumentation and participation. The class will address several social movement theories to assess how advocacy works, while...

The theory and process of preparing and delivering specialized forms of public speeches. Emphasis is placed on a variety of types of persuasive and ceremonial speeches. Students are provided the opportunity to develop a personal rhetorical style...

A consideration of the elements necessary to effective speech writing. Through the study of rhetorical masterpieces, students learn elements of style and arrangement especially suitable for discourse written for oral communication. Emphasis is on...

This course explores the various and often subtle ways that propaganda functions in our society today. Focusing on propaganda in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this course compares American propaganda with that carried out in more...

The theory and processes of communication in organizations. Through such techniques as role-playing, problem-solving and presentations, emphasis is placed on the communicative processes and functions of individuals in groups. Leadership, image...

Media ecology is the study of media environments, of how technology and techniques, modes of information and codes of communication affect human perception, understanding, feeling, and value. It is a deeply historical, meta-disciplinary, and robust...

This course examines the intellectual contexts and consequences of the twentieth- century development of "mass communication" as a concept. Its main aim is to give students broad reading knowledge in social theories of mass communication from their...

Examines the role of communication in the productivity of task-oriented groups. Special attention is paid to the function of communication in group development, leadership emergence, conflict and cohesion.

This course continues the central investigation of rhetorical discourses and the material systems in which they are embedded through an archeological lens, examining the meaning and valuation of them as they are created, presented and represented...